Another quick Fallout 76 update.
Fallout 1st subscriptions continue to exceed expectations, especially the 1 month sub statistics. They are now actively looking at changing the bonus outfit every few months to keep people interested. Those that subscribed for a year would get every outfit as it becomes available.
Bethesda is also looking at other ways to increase year long subscriptions. More "utility" items may be coming to Fallout 1st, as well as some sort of "subscriber rewards program", and a few ideas of additional "unique subscriber only benefits" are being tossed around.
Finally, more "utility" items are coming to the Atomic Shop. They are checking Reddit and "other communities" to see what people want, and will be trying to "fit it in".
Cross play was briefly brought up and shut down internally. It is very unlikely that it will happen. PC is the culprit here. A console only cross play idea was floating around, however my source does not know what became of it. I am told to not expect cross play of any kind unless the community really pushes for it, and even then - it is highly unlikely due to the work involved.
Fallout 76 will be missing its 2019 Steam debut, which was supposed to occur with the launch of Wastelanders. It is still coming to the platform, and will launch along side or shortly after Wastelanders.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Monday, October 28, 2019
Fallout 76 and the Fallout 1st fiasco. It could have all been avoided if they just stuck to the original plan.
A quick and short update today.
So I won't be writing much about what Fallout 1st is and how it came about, but what I will say is that Bethesda was planning to release the subscription service in tandem with Wastelanders.
However, Wastelanders was delayed and Fallout 1st has been ready for a while, so the decision was made to "just launch the damn thing already".
The goal of Fallout 1st was to ensure that all future development for Fallout 76 is "self sufficient". What this means, is that Bethesda will be using the money it gets from Fallout 1st to fund all future content updates/fixes for Fallout 76.
The response on social media, Reddit, and gaming sites has been pretty negative, but internal metrics reveal that a "much larger than expected" amount of players bought the one month membership, with "a bit more than what we thought" amount of players buying the year long membership.
Right now, Bethesda is taking a "wait and see approach", and may change some features of Fallout 1st depending on how "big of a deal people make about it".
For now, they are busy fixing the bugs that Fallout 1st introduced and their continued work on Wastelanders (which I am told is shaping up to be "pretty frigging amazing").
From my short conversations with a few of the people at Bethesda, I got the impression that most are disappointed with the way Fallout 1st was launched and is being handled. Seems management is just being management yet again.
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So I won't be writing much about what Fallout 1st is and how it came about, but what I will say is that Bethesda was planning to release the subscription service in tandem with Wastelanders.
However, Wastelanders was delayed and Fallout 1st has been ready for a while, so the decision was made to "just launch the damn thing already".
The goal of Fallout 1st was to ensure that all future development for Fallout 76 is "self sufficient". What this means, is that Bethesda will be using the money it gets from Fallout 1st to fund all future content updates/fixes for Fallout 76.
The response on social media, Reddit, and gaming sites has been pretty negative, but internal metrics reveal that a "much larger than expected" amount of players bought the one month membership, with "a bit more than what we thought" amount of players buying the year long membership.
Right now, Bethesda is taking a "wait and see approach", and may change some features of Fallout 1st depending on how "big of a deal people make about it".
For now, they are busy fixing the bugs that Fallout 1st introduced and their continued work on Wastelanders (which I am told is shaping up to be "pretty frigging amazing").
From my short conversations with a few of the people at Bethesda, I got the impression that most are disappointed with the way Fallout 1st was launched and is being handled. Seems management is just being management yet again.
Got fails? - mmogfails@gmail.com