Bethesda has announced that the beta and the final/retail versions of Fallout 76 will be exclusive to Bethesda.net. In other words, this is the first Fallout game in years that will not be coming to Steam and will stay exclusive to Bethesda’s launcher.
As the Fallout 76 BETA FAQ reads:
“Both the B.E.T.A. and the game will be available on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and on PC (via Bethesda.net only).”
Our guess is that this won’t have any impact on any potential mods. However, it’s unfortunate that PC gamers will need yet another launcher in order to play their games.
Bethesda has also revealed that the beta will contain the full game and all of players’ progress will be saved for launch.
Fallout 76 releases on November 14th and its beta phase will begin this October!
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“it’s unfortunate that PC gamers will need yet another launcher in order to play their games.”
Another launcher won’t be necessary in my case as now I don’t plan on playing the game. I was already apprehensive about 76 and Bethesda just made up my mind for me with this move!
Well you know a beta never hurt anybody (Today’s Demo).
Not the point, but whatever.
To play “beta” you need to pay for it 😉
Only suckers fall into this.
? ? Country roads, no more mods, online only, Tod Howard is an a$$hole, take me home, to new vegas, a fallout that doesnt suck, country roads ? ?
Theres Fallout 3, a beautiful game with less bugs than New Vegas
Ugh… if it keeps going like this i’ll have more publisher apps than actual games.
Give it another 2-3 years, you’ll need 20 broken pieces of software to play your games.
What better way to forcefully cripple an open platform like PC, than to make it so obtrusive and convoluted .
Lemme guess, the launcher is a complete abortion? I don’t care about Fallout 76, but I’d like to not have to deal with this sh*t when DOOM Eternal launches.
That really worries me, and i’m also worried about the new TES, and maybe starfield granted it’s good.
if 76 is locked, the rest will be too.
Damn, you’re probably right, but i really don’t want to miss the next Doom, fkin hell!
Well for me, I don’t mind, because there are other games out there that serve my tastes, rather than me having to serve a companies silly warped convenience expectations.
Not necessarily. Maybe after F76 fiasco Bethesda will leave an option as to where to get the game not developed by them.
wills starfield by offline with mods though?
No idea, i just hope it’s a decent game, i’m desperate to play something
For doom that is my favorite shooter wolfestein evil within prey and
wharever else action games they release i will use it if they release it
only there since i play all action games!!!
I honestly won’t be using that unless they fix the problems everyone is complaining about, but still i’d prefer it was on steam.
Gamers who let EA get away with it first by supporting Origin at launch did this.
wut?.
No, the DRM part.
EA released all their major games on Steam then stopped doing so, that’s the difference.
Why would they give anyone 30% margin when the brand is so strong? It makes no sense.
That’s why EA leave steam,and now Activation,Bethesda and in the future, other companies will leave Steam!
I’m not saying it’s a bad business decision, I’m saying it’s inconvenient for me as a user and I have concerns about how well it will function. We’ve seen a ton of other clients that work very poorly (Origin, UPlay). Many have gotten a lot better over the years, but I’m still concerned.
I’d previously commented that it wouldn’t surprise me if Zenimax did this starting with the next TES game but their greed has surpassed my expectations.
“Our guess is that this won’t have any impact on any potential mods”
Maybe not for this specific game but I wouldn’t remain so positive for the future. Next step may well be to extend the scope of Creation Club so to make it very difficult, practically speaking, to use mods from anywhere but their own store. Paid Mods 3.0, so to speak. Expect the next TES game to either not allow mods from the Nexus (or any other external source) or for it to be made a PITA to do so.
“Maybe not for this specific game but I wouldn’t remain so positive for the future.”
Take a look at the past, and it will show you the future. When you give these crap bucket companies an inch, they want the mile, and then some.
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best, and get the worst in the end. This statement pretty much sums up the video game industry over the past 12 years or so now.
I’m pretty much done with modern day games. I’m pretty much full on retro anymore, and it’s been far more fun. This industry needs to burn to the ground.
I’ll still be playing (heavily modded) Skyrim SE years from now so to hell with Zenimax’s future plans, haha! If the next proper TES game in any way makes it impractical to use externally sourced mods (Nexus, etc) then I simply won’t buy it.
I think they do this for pushing the Creation Club and not pay the 30% at Valve. The greed is strong in this one!
I see that PC Gamer, via their most notorious SJW writer, has predictably taken their usual pro-corporate/pro-advertising client anti-consumer stance on the matter. Despicable as always.
Better call that tumor site Leftist Gamer.
I only knew of said article courtesy of a video ridiculing it on YouTube.
I no longer visit the site itself and thanks to how the SJW hive mind of its writers have, for me, contaminated the PC Gamer brand I also no longer buy the print magazine. Should I ever have cause to visit the site in future then I’ll of course have ad blocker software activated.
lol
I look forward to watching YouTube videos of this game for free.
No thank you Bethesda. A hard pass.
Fail.
well i already wasn’t getting it, now i get to pretend it doesn’t even exist.
Can anyone guess what is common between all the upcoming games I have bought so far:
Monster Hunter World
The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Shenmue I & II
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey
Just Cause 4
They are all crap? Or are you getting that all of them are available on Steam?
WHAT?! ASSASIN CREED JUST CAUSE AND TOMB RAIDER ARE NOT CRAP! ESPECIALY TOMB RAIDER!
denuvo and mainstream games copypasta
no, i dont get it. OH WAIT STEAM.
CANT WAIT FOR ASSASINS CREED ODYSEY JUST CAUSE 4 AND SHADOW OF THE TOMB RAIDER! THA IS WHAT IS COMOON AND ALL 3 OF THEM WILL SELL GREAT ON PC! ALSO COMMON IS THAT ALL OF THEM ARE ON STEAM!
LMAOOOOO
Good, now they can pull an EA and live in self denial about how less it’ll sell, while reassuring themselves via press that “it’s selling really well”, despite having far less customers on their client (EA pulls this with Origin each time).
Game will basically be dead on PC, gj Bethesda!.
Also, no chance of me using that god awful client.
Given the state of how the steam store looks worse every time I launch it I cant really blame these publishers (still wasn’t gonna buy this trash anyway tho lmao)
The other ones honestly look worse, both library, and price wise, not to mention the lacking mod support.
Yeah it could look like s*/t your godlike tastes, but guess what?
Everything that is consumer friendly on steam is hated by AAA developers.
Allowing people to tell others their game is s*/t through reviews.
Allowing people to buy in their local currency.
Allowing people to ask for workshop support, yeah since Steam has the tecnology, they can say they dont have workshop support yet, so they cant support mods.
Allowing people to refund their “awesome” games.
I don’t have enough faith in Bethesda to trust a launcher of theirs. That being said I don’t play online games so I wasn’t going to be buying this regardless.
No regional prices? Bye Bye Fallout.
Pues a piratearlo hasta que se hundan
We dont speak pasta
this game is going to tank hardcore.
Here’s to hoping it does spectacularly so.
Hopefully so.
sadly now tod howart’s fantards on consoles will buy poo if it has his name on it.
Nah, we never had mods to begin with so that never bothered us. Unlike you PC folks, we learned how to accept a game as is
For doom that is my favorite shooter wolfestein evil within prey and wharever else action games they release i will use it if they release it only there since i play all action games!
“Our guess is that this won’t have any impact on any potential mods.
However, it’s unfortunate that PC gamers will need yet another launcher
in order to play their games.”
Who are the ones to blame? Ourselves!!
And then some people here are expecting more games on GOG when they arent even coming to Steam. F..k Bethesda, F..k E.A. F..k Activision, there are reasons they dont want to come to Steam, it is because the platform has become somehow more consumer friendly with reviews, refunds and other tools to stop gaming companies from being abusive with their fanbase.
lol Wow. They sure picked the wrong game to try and muscle people into installing their garbage launcher. Best of luck there Bethesda.
THey dont need luck, they just need their drones..
They will loss on copies sold but as they have their drones, the 100% of the their sales are gonna stay on the house.
Because the Steam version would let pirates play it online right?
How many luncher do we need on pc now every studio want to make a gaming luncher
Wait what ???? you think I m gonna download another fking launcher and a shty one at that . No fk that
Yeah I guess this is the time where you hope that bethesta fails in everyway possible, ether way it wont sell as much unless tools will bend over
Add me to the GFY Bethesda list.
is this a run and gun game?
They’re trying to turn Fallout into Borderlands. Popcorn is ready.
A PITA for sure, but still looking forward to checking it out. Just like everyone else b*tching in the comments and pretending that they’re gonna boycot anything.
How did origin turn out? Didnt go well now did it?
That’s direction we are moving in anyway. Volvo removed EU2 so now everyone gets same price in EU as Germany.
What in the h*ll are you talking about KKW?
Precisely. Let’s consider some pertinent facts from recent history,
– Skyrim SE doesn’t feature Steam Workshop support like Skyrim
– TES Online launched both on Steam and via Bethesda(dot)net
– the outrage and subsequent removal of paid mods from Skyrim SE
– the arrival of Creation Club aka Paid Mods 2.0
– how every lame CC update screws with SKSE/FO4SE-based mods
– they’re still selling Skyrim SE today with many of the bugs of 2011 unfixed
– next Fallout spin-off to be on Bethesda(dot)net exclusively
Zenimax is evidently a company that cares little for the consumer.
I don’t think this has been touched on and it probably doesn’t affect a lot of people but I don’t want yet another launcher because I have a slow connection speed. Steam is the only service that I have on auto start and it generally takes a few seconds to check for updates and then it’s done.
I have Origin too for a handful of games that I can’t get on Steam but my last experience playing a game there is that just about every other time I sat down to play a game Origin went through a long update process. It took several minutes. That was annoying. Maybe that’s not the norm though. They could have just been on a spree at that time fixing the service up for the better.
the game is online anyway moron, so i dont get your point.
well it does have a campaign.
will it? or will it be online only?
I just finished FO4 and it’s really flat and grindy. I played in survival difficulty, and my strongest impression of the game is: “purified water simulator 2018”.
Skyrim was so much more fun, despite having the same Bethesda problems (animations are even worse)…
I was expecting Fallout 3 with better shooting, which I’d say were pretty low expectations, and instead I got Skyrim with guns and even more streamlining and re**rded design choices.
A platform that hardly anyone uses.
I will not buy the game since i’m not interested in it, but the majority of players use steam where a lot of other games similar to what Fallout 76 is going for are there. So i don’t see why they went full stupid with that decision.
How about giving the customer the freedom to NOT use a launcher? Use launcher to download the game, and then launch the game directly. What’s so difficult about it? Oh, i forgot – control and greed.
But GOG does it right, and these days i’m a 95% GOG user. I vote with my money.
The only FPS-style Fallout worth touching was New Vegas.
Are you kidding me Fallout 3 was amazing
Not as good as Fallout 2. I’m not saying it was bad, but compared to previous games it was too plain and straightforward. While Obsidian returned to the roots of the series.
Good enough excuse for me not buy it then.
I hope they will not do this with Starfield and Elder scorls 6 and Fallout 5. If they will i will must play these games for free.
Why are people surprised? TES: Online anyone?
On Steam.
Not a big deal.
way to kill it before launch and inc paid mods and skins……pass.