Fallout 76 was a major misfire and fell stupid short of their sales predictions. The were places just giving away copies for buying other games or controllers, anything to get it out of stock. Now it is time for Bethesda to squeeze the little pay piggies to those last few cents and they will pay up and oink about how they don't want to do it but will anyway.
I am aware that it fell short of predictions, but there is a large difference between "bleeding money" and "barely profiting". The game must have been cheap to produce since much of the hardest work was already done for them. The engine is the same as Fallout 4, so all they had to do was implement the multiplayer systems and create the new assets. Stuff like voice acting was kept to a minimum as the only needed to record notes rather than full conversations with NPCs. I'm not an expert but everything points to a relatively cheap game to produce. Would they really need that many sales to get out of the red? And the microtransaction system has been around from the start, so they're probably milking the few dedicated players that they have. They may even have a couple of "whales" that will keep pumping huge amounts of money into it.
From the looks of it they spent quite a bit on the game and since Zenimax is a private company, all that money is out of pocket. I'm sure it fudged their time tables to use the funds from the game and they would have to shuffle assets around.
Yeah, most of these online games do have whales, even when the game isn't super popular. And the game was fairly cheap to produce overall. Todd even said something about how they have a basis to build worlds quickly compared to building them from the ground up but I can't find the source on it at the moment. It was even said there was loops and things in Morrowind that devs saw in Fallout 76.
Yeah, the fact that you can get the servers without the ability to mod is kinda funny. Why would I pay anything for a private server that I can't mod yet? And will any mods be allowed? Or just a new Creation Club of mods? I could see people justifying a private server if the modding was open and free but I have doubts about that.I remember people saying that what will save Fallout 76 for them in private servers. Others would say "You just wait, I bet you will have to pay for private servers", but then people would say that Bethesda would never ask for money for private servers.
Well, it seems like Bethesda will ask for money for private servers after all.
Since private servers will be the only case where I can see Bethesda allowing mods... It's the same as having to pay to be able to use mods (which was something people used to joke about).
Oh yeah, they already said they would charge for them or at least the article I've read on it said that. Since they're charging, I'm also assuming that this means you get a server that's always online (outside of maintenance and updates) so that if the host goes offline, the server stays up and others allowed on the server can keep playing.The next big question then is do I need to pay in order to play on them?
Well no fucking shit, do I need to go all Denis Miller and add That's just my opinion and I could be wrong to every post too? At the end of the day the game is in the most likely of likelies a financial disappointment and has been a constant PR nightmare for the company since day one and only gotten worse with the whole shenaniganery with the wrong bag mixup, it being more broken than usual, Special-Ed version helmets that will kill you with mold and probably more crap I'm not even aware of, because I haven't played it since January.
Because that was the plan from day one. got to keep that player base still playing, because it they are playing they are paying. lot of games these days have the model of people buying a bunch of useless shit with their dad's credit card. Now they dangled some new types of items out for the Little Pay Piggies to purchase.
