Cashgrab 2 - Fallout 76 gets a subscription service called Fallout1st

It's a rough week in the world of Fallout 76. Reddit and subsequently youtubers and game journalists (who use Reddit as their primary source) signal boost a lot of vocal but not necessarily majority opinions which are countered by the reality in-game. Just anecdotal from myself and a few others but there are an awful lot of Fallout 1st players in the game currently, so the outrage hasn't been representative of people not actually paying for the subscription. It oddly enough seems quite popular. I chalk this up to the 1650 monthly atoms because the subscription price alone for those is cheaper than any other option.

 

It is easy and you do get tons of them but there's a finite limit per day/week in addition to a few thousand from account based atom challenges. If you buy them it's about $1 for 100, the subscription is something like .50 for 100. If you only buy one or two items here and there you probably aren't buying atoms. If you are buying atoms then the subscription is actually the cheapest.

 

I guess that's where capitalism comes in because it's there and people are willing to pay. It doesn't matter if you could get another game cheaper, a Netflix subscription or the xbox game pass because what they want to play is Fallout 76 and not those things. Also, if someone has disposable income they may buy a coffee every day without thinking much of it. This wouldn't be much different. It's nickel and diming but the nickels and dimes add up. A coffee doesn't last more than half an hour or so and we're still willing to pay for it. In-game cosmetics will last as many hours as you play the game. It's hard to compare relative value of these things.

Also like I said in my above reply if you buy cosmetics at all the subscription is worth it just for the atoms because it's half the price of regular atom bundles.

 

I didn't buy Fallout 1st :p but since none of you guys play the game and likely neither do most of the youtubers and game journalists writing about it I'm filling in the blanks.

 

Yeah some of them have "played" the game but when you watch their stream they're like level 20, something you can get in an evening. Their income revolves around advertising so whatever gets clicks and subscriptions is what their video content is produced for. Youtube algorithms also prioritize video post frequency over anything else so top youtubers shovel clickbait drivel at an almost industrial level. There is no money in them actually playing the game but there's a lot of money in bitching about it. People seem willing to spend 30 minutes+ of their time to hear someone echo a thing they already believe. That's not limited to video game youtubes, there's big money in producing content for an echo chamber. Ex. See any video compilation of "the worst things Donald Trump has done" and how people are willing to just watch it because they hate Donald Trump and want to hear someone with a lot of Youtube views say the same thing

It is generally easy for me to see how much understanding some of these people have of the game because they may reference a feature or a problem that hasn't existed for months. Talk about gameplay that doesn't actually work the way they describe. Present half-facts and be missing information. A lot of the time their point of reference is the sub-reddit.