Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show

• zoostation@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s zero chance there won’t be a Fallout 5 but Elder Scrolls is their next major game, so it won’t be soon. In the meantime there’s a great free Fallout game for anyone who wants it despite it not being titled Fallout 5. It doesn’t require a subscription or microtransactions and making it sound like some sort of mobile game only shows you don’t know what it is.

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  • Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s zero chance there won’t be a Fallout 5 but Elder Scrolls is their next major game, so it won’t be soon.

    If it came out tomorrow it wouldn’t be “soon,” Fallout 4 came out 11 years ago.

    In the meantime there’s a great free Fallout game for anyone who wants it despite it not being titled Fallout 5.

    The game is currently listed for $39.99 on Steam. Reviews are “mixed” after 5 years of Bethesda adding content to the game, which originally released to overwhelmingly negative reviews, so not “great”.

    It doesn’t require a subscription or microtransactions and making it sound like some sort of mobile game only shows you don’t know what it is.

    The game does not charge for a subscription, but you most certainly have to have one, because you have to login to the game. There would be no way for them to try and sell you shit through their microtransaction store every single time you login otherwise. Which they do. You are not obliged to buy them, but you are obliged to view ads for them.

    Now then. Every single thing you just said is demonstrably wrong. What exactly makes you the authority on what Bethesda intends to do with Fallout?

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    • zoostation@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sometimes I forget people don’t have Game Pass lol. I haven’t bought anything from Steam in over 5 years.

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So it’s not free, you have to give Bethesda/Microsoft money every month and when you stop doing so, you lose access to all the games. Game Pass Ultimate has tripled in price over 8 years and there’s no reason to believe they won’t keep raising it. Lower tiers haven’t risen as much I guess, but have been nerfed instead (no more day 1 new games, yay)

        If you have a TON of free time, game pass is a good deal for sure, but at this point with all the price hikes, a few months of game pass is one brand new AAA game or 2-3 excellent indie or AA titles and I’d wager it takes the average adult several months to finish one truly big game like BG3 or Elden Ring (just to name two excellent games with decent scope from recent years), as time is a scarce resource.

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