No Fatshark like many other smaller studios (Coffee Stain for example) make great games and cannot even be put remotely into the category where Bethesda decided to go. And EA with killing off great studios is extending rock bottom of the scale where previously only insignificant cheap low effort cash grabs went.
Fatshark may be on the decline at the moment from the standart late V1 achived but this is only the 2nd installment of their first great game and were not at pay2win/payed mods/rerelease Skyrim or Fallout cash grab lvl.
I think it was about 5$ per cash crab but it getâs cheaper if you buy the more expensive ingame money âDLCâ.
Maybe @anon26183726 can tell us how much the preorder collector edition was/is.
Well officially its so bad⌠Bethesda might shut down the Fallout franchise after this debacle. The corporations think in terms of profits and growth and if they ruined the franchise they have to own it. Not the first time a gaming company has ruined a good stable Brand. I donât see how they can justify a new Fallout game after this.
Remember what happened to Duke Nukem. What a great game the OG Duke Nukem was. And what toiletware Duke Nukem Forever turned out to be. Then that was the death of Duke Nukem. Many great brands disappeared because the new entries failed. Not the first time and not the last time either
Bethesda always had some huge level of forgiveness and goodwill from the players because in Oblivion and Skyrim (And New Vegas, although thatâs like some bastard child as it was made by someone else) They were groundbreaking.
Since Fallout 4 theyâve stopped being groundbreaking market-leaders and are mixing it with other companies. Bethesda have always been SINGLE PLAYER RPG open world cutting edge games, and we forgave the bugs because everything else was so damn good.
Enter Witcher 3.
So the title of the best open world RPG is no longer Bethesdaâs, and they need to diversify to continue their income stream. I get it. I really do.
But to launch a product that is so bad you have a legal company who specialise in Class actions against companies who deliver shoddy products building a case against you, and for THAT legal companies website to crash because of the overwhelming response from players who were unequivocally denied a refund then Iâm sorry Bethesda, youâve spectacularly buried one of your key franchises.
Iâm sure itâs great, but players have been burned by Fallout 4 being lack lustre, and fallout 76 downright belonging in a toilet, the sales of TES VI are quite likely to suffer. I wonât be buying it straight away, whereas before I just handed over my money.
The expectation from players is going down, and therefore the price point is going to be a big issue for many (a lot will wait it out after launch, see if it blows, get it on a steam sale) which means forecast income will take a bit of a wallop.
Iâm not suggesting Beth are suddenly going to bury TES franchise, but before Fallout 4 Iâd have said they werenât going to bury the Fallout Franchise⌠soâŚ
AND with Projekt Red releasing Cyberpunk soon, itâll be another kidney punch for Bethesda from one of their key competitors.
in short, TESVI needs to be mindbogglingly brilliant to rescue their ailing reputation, and I suspect they wonât have even bothered to fix the comedy physics prevalent in TES games. Goodwill and forgiveness from the playerbase are long-gone now. Time to deliver something spectacular.
Of course, Bethesda could always do a FF XIV and PULL THE GAME Fallout76 back into development OR give refunds and make it FTP. Good luck with that.
Also in regards to the op itâs just Bethesda as usual, but since they went mmo itâs a different ball game and mods canât save them as usual! I mean when Skyrim came out it was a goddamn train wreck of potential and moders brought it to a shine.
I believe they announced test was being built on the same platform/engine that fallout76 is. Thatâs pretty much like having one foot in the grave. Best we can hope is that itâs a deadite
Yes they said they would do the next elder scrolls game and another one (something stellar) with the same engine as Skyrim. Because thatâs what Fallout 76 and Fallout 4âs engine is: Skyrimâs engine with visual effects that consume much more power combined with a lot more bugs.
There is more than payed mods responsible for people not playing the enhanced edition over normal Skyrim because it isnât âenhancedâ itâs a downgrade for performance and mod compatibility.
So it would be better if they actually did it with the 2011 engine and not with the extra bug pile.
If they actually do it with the F76 modification I cannot see this game having even a chance to be good.
Honestly if Bethesda could get Havok physics integrated properly, and ditch the papyrus scripting in favour of something robust that can handle a lot of NPC action through script, then the actual Creation Engine might not be that bad.
Currently, Havok is badly implemented(thereâs literally hundreds of games using Havok Physics that have zero problems) and the script basically has some kind of episodic breakdown whenever it is asked to do too much.
Surely Bethesda can spare a couple of quid to get a new, state of the art engine? Or at least pay someone to get Havok working properly?
This actually saved XIV. The 2nd release was amazing, and donât get me wrong, people were annoyed it took them another year, but they wanted the game done right. I was one of the people there for the early access with all my friends xD So many people were waiting to play that they actually stopped selling the game because their servers couldnât handle it. Can you imagine a gaming company doing that today? Stop selling their game until they fix the problem lol. Anyway, I think the game has around 14 million players now, getting close to WoW.
