Recently, rumours have been swirling that the maligned online multiplayer title Fallout 76 will be made free-to-play. This all seems to have stemmed from a short supply of the game in Australian stores, which is a rocky basis for such a rumour anyway. Still, the word spread, and as always, fans were whipped into a frenzy.
Fortunately, Bethesda has stepped in to straighten out the story. A Fallout 76 player voiced his concern on Twitter, saying if the game went free-to-play, they'd want their money back. The publisher responded, simply denying that the troubled title will be adopting this payment model.
It doesn't get much more straightforward than that: Fallout 76 isn't going free-to-play, and the rumour is bogus.
Are you still playing Fallout 76? Are you relieved to hear that the game won't be adopting the free-to-play method? Step out of the vault in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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I wouldn't even play it if it was free to be honest. In fact, even if Bethesda paid ME I still wouldn't play it!
@Deadcow I wouldn't play it if it was free, the beta completely put me off
"There is no truth to this rumour (in the immediate but hey, not a bad idea once we've squeezed all the pennies and cents we're gonna squeeze out of you suckers, so cheers for that)."
Maybe won't go free to play but will be discounted regularly, like ESO. I'll play it when it's 7 or 8 quid...in a few years like I did with ESO
Well...after the bad news about the game...
I would always welcome a demo.
Anyways, i still keep playing my Fallout 4 copy.
There's no truth to the rumour that players will receive 500 Atoms when it goes free to play
They would have to pay me to play it.
I don't think I would even have bothered playing it if it had gone free to play.
Life is too precious to waste on Fallout 76.
All of a sudden in a few months we see an article saying the game is free-to-play now.
They're already using a free to play microtransactions model. Awful.
Wouldn’t play this even if it was F2P. Better games to play.
Maybe not f2p... but ps+??
@Bad-MuthaAdebisi any game that uses microtransactions, lootboxes or any form of money grabbing, should be free honestly and they have no right charging full retail price.
I'd probably give it a go, the big Fallout fanboy that I am. But I'd go out of my way to avoid any contact whatsoever with other players. I'd wander around the world for a bit listening to the in-game radio, then it'd probably get deleted.
as john inman would say are you free
Me: "I heard you're revamping this game to be a fun, fully realized game in the Fallout franchise, featuring branching dialogue paths and interesting NPC characters to give life to the wasteland!"
Bethesda: "There is no truth to this rumor."
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