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[Dunamisdeos]

Whatever kids you all missed the greatest thing to come out of Bethesda since they invented the Nintendo Genesis

https://amzn.to/2JEXN8H

[Retropunch]

How about the fact that its a main title and not a spinoff? I know this post is probably because you're salty after hoping for a single player Fallout game, but there wasn't anything to indicate that Fallout 76 was the next entry in the franchise, or that there would be NPCs in a game 25 years after earth suffered a freaking nuclear apocalypse. I'm sure Bethesda will make a Fallout 5, after their new single-player game and ESVI.

As I posted in the Fallout 76 thread - I can't imagine they'll step away from multiplayer if it becomes a success. It'll just make too much money for them - ES6 might be safe, because I imagine it's quite far into development and they'll be banking on the terrible creation club for it. I'd bet cold hard cash that everything after ES6 is multiplayer.

As others have said, I think they mostly did it to stop people getting pissed off at the Fallout reveal - they're self aware enough to know that people like them for their single-player experiences, so they'd have upset a lot of people without that potential there. That being said, they've not told us anything we didn't know - we knew they weren't going to abandon the elder scrolls series and all they've shown is a few mountains - it could be 5 years away easy.

[Persus13]

As I posted in the Fallout 76 thread - I can't imagine they'll step away from multiplayer if it becomes a success. It'll just make too much money for them - ES6 might be safe, because I imagine it's quite far into development and they'll be banking on the terrible creation club for it. I'd bet cold hard cash that everything after ES6 is multiplayer.

And I'll happily take that bet. Fallout 76 will need to sell a lot of copies and whatever other transactions Bethesda offers with it to top Skyrim money.

[nenjin]

MTX and loot crates, I betcha.

[Teneb]

As I posted in the Fallout 76 thread - I can't imagine they'll step away from multiplayer if it becomes a success. It'll just make too much money for them - ES6 might be safe, because I imagine it's quite far into development and they'll be banking on the terrible creation club for it. I'd bet cold hard cash that everything after ES6 is multiplayer.

And I'll happily take that bet. Fallout 76 will need to sell a lot of copies and whatever other transactions Bethesda offers with it to top Skyrim money.

Not only that, but they also announced another single player RPG at E3, Starfield.

Also Todd Howard claims that Fallout 76 will have mods, though not immediately.

I think Bethesda will keep trying (and failing) to monetize mods.

[Dunamisdeos]

If Bethesda announced that they were stopping for reals with the mod monetization I'd buy their next three games.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

I mean, free mods are tops, but I am half of the mind that this is the end of an era. With all the resources that Bethesda can bring to bear, it feels like Constantinople under siege from the Ottomans. Anything and everything that is popular risks monetization these days :/

[Dunamisdeos]

Yeah but in this case I can just not buy their stuff, even if E3 tells me to.

[umiman]

As I posted in the Fallout 76 thread - I can't imagine they'll step away from multiplayer if it becomes a success. It'll just make too much money for them - ES6 might be safe, because I imagine it's quite far into development and they'll be banking on the terrible creation club for it. I'd bet cold hard cash that everything after ES6 is multiplayer.

And I'll happily take that bet. Fallout 76 will need to sell a lot of copies and whatever other transactions Bethesda offers with it to top Skyrim money.

Not only that, but they also announced another single player RPG at E3, Starfield.

Also Todd Howard claims that Fallout 76 will have mods, though not immediately.

I think Bethesda will keep trying (and failing) to monetize mods.

Fallout 76 is going to be online only.

Unless they have private servers, mods will have to go through them. You know what that means.

[Retropunch]

And I'll happily take that bet. Fallout 76 will need to sell a lot of copies and whatever other transactions Bethesda offers with it to top Skyrim money.

This only makes sense if there was another studio that was producing the same sort of games which could put them at risk. They're the only shop in town for this kinda game, and no one can even attempt to get close.

As such, they have no risk to just plough ahead with monetization, and as long as it doesn't flop it'll be fine. People can say 'I don't like this enforced multiplayer' and they can say 'well if you want to play an ES or FO game that's what you're getting' and that's the end of the story.

The end game of this is also that they can make it so only 'approved mods' (see creators club) are allowed 'because it's online' and then we're in the situation of paying for all mods again.

[Egan_BW]

Or you can just keep modding skyrim, as you've been doing for years. Or go back to daggerfall. Or play a good fallout game not made by beth~

[SOLDIER First]

Or play a good fallout game

1, 2, 3, New Vegas, 4...?

not made by beth~

1, 2, or New Vegas it is.

[scriver]

[Kagus]

Which is not to be confused with
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

[Putnam]

As I posted in the Fallout 76 thread - I can't imagine they'll step away from multiplayer if it becomes a success. It'll just make too much money for them - ES6 might be safe, because I imagine it's quite far into development and they'll be banking on the terrible creation club for it. I'd bet cold hard cash that everything after ES6 is multiplayer.

And I'll happily take that bet. Fallout 76 will need to sell a lot of copies and whatever other transactions Bethesda offers with it to top Skyrim money.

Not only that, but they also announced another single player RPG at E3, Starfield.

Also Todd Howard claims that Fallout 76 will have mods, though not immediately.

I think Bethesda will keep trying (and failing) to monetize mods.

Fallout 76 is going to be online only.

Unless they have private servers, mods will have to go through them. You know what that means.

They do have private servers, as AFAIK the interview the linked article sources from states.

Also, ooh, can we do paid mods debate again? That's always good fun. Paid mods are good, though from what I've gathered creation club is a joke on all counts (not just content-wise but how creators are paid). That's my current opinion.