For those of you still playing Fallout 76, there's some news that's sure to receive mixed feelings. Today, Bethesda has introduced Fallout 1st, a premium membership for its online-only shooter that will grant you access to private servers, unlimited storage for crafting items, a monthly supply of Atoms, and much more. The downside is that it's pretty damn pricey.
Before we get into the cost of Fallout 1st, let's go through its contents properly. As mentioned, the oft-requested private servers are included, allowing you to create a world populated only by you and, if you like, up to seven pals. Private servers can be entered by any player, but the creator of the server must be a member of Fallout 1st.
Next up, you have the Scrapbox, an item exclusively for 1st members that effectively gives you unlimited storage space for crafting items. This will help keep your inventories in order, which is a plus. A survival tent is the next bonus; it acts as a second base you can place down anywhere, and you can fast travel to it as well. As a member, you'll also get 1,650 Atoms a month to spend in the Atomic Shop. Finally, Fallout 1st members will earn themselves a special outfit and a bunch of icons and emotes.
There are two options when it comes to how you pay for Fallout 1st. You can either purchase one month for $12.99 / £11.99 (ouch), or you can stump up for the full, 12-month subscription, which will set you back $99.99 / £99.99 (ouch). We're not going to tell you how to spend your money, but you can get Netflix for a monthly fee of just £5.99. Just putting that out there.
Anyway, what do you think of Fallout 1st in Fallout 76? Will you be Fallout buying this Fallout subscription for your Fallout online multiplayer Fallout shooter? Let us Fallout know in the Fallout comments below.
[source fallout.bethesda.net, via store.playstation.com]
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I genuinely question the mental state of anybody that would pay for this. It surely cannot be worth it for any human being in the world.
Does the subscription come with a free canvas bag and helmet? ;P
What idiot would pay for this? Smh 🤦♂️
If you like it and want to pay for it, more power to you.
Remember when people thought PS Now was expensive at £11.99 a month? And that let you play Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
Ha!! **Redacted rude phrase** that.
Just when you thought fallout 76 was out of the news. Its been almost a year since release and it's at least had one cock up or controversy per month. Impressive
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
makes you wonder and worry about the sh*t they might pull with TES 6.
@jdv95 For $100 a year you can find it out yourself in a few years from now
EA might actually lose their crown this year
Absolutely mental. No idea what’s going on at Bethesda but they’re a publisher that seriously need to evaluate just what on earth they’re doing right now
... There's seriously no way Bethesda is THIS dumb right? There's gotta be someone on the team who doesn't agree with this, only to be sent to get re-Bethes-ducated for such a silly notion as promises or goodwill!
But for $100 I could buy 10 copies of fallout 76 and populate an empty server with all my friends.
Would be genuinely interested to see the number of take up on this, but I doubt they’d ever release those figures.
no thanks not sure what they're smoking over at Bethesda!
They already crossed the line with Fallout 76 multiple times already with the past controversies. Now it feels like they're just trying to see how far beyond the line they can go.
@carlos82 it's a three way between EA, Acti-Blizzard and Bethesda atm.
@carlos82 crazy right?
their new star wars game actually looks to be great and is MTX free.
and they also have removed what made NFS payback so bad from heat and made NFS heat consumer friendly from what i have heard so far.
and than you have bethesda that just did a 180 in the opposite direction and became this husk of a "developer".
@jdv95 Inb4 EA puts MTX in their Star Wars game after the reviews are out. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
And Anthem is still a thing as well. Yeah, don't worry, I forgot it came out this year as well.
What is there to say anymore? Bethesda are shameless, greedy, lying *@&#s.
That looks like quite an attractive proposition to me.
I haven't read the article I'm just thinking about buying a steak slice from Greggs.
I don't get it, just what is bethesda thinking here, do they seriously think they have enough clout to charge this much for something like this. It's almost as if they want to create another controversy just because it's been relatively quite for a while, like a crazed masochist.
I have very little experience with the actual game itself so I can't comment on the value of what you get, but from an optics standpoint this is just such a horrible terrible idea. They just announced that their big dlc was getting delayed then a couple weeks later this, also after just delaying Doom Eternal. Just a bad look no matter how you slice it smh
If you buy this, you deserve what you get.
$100 for virtual currency, a tent, a scrapbox, and an awful looking ranger uniform.
That's what Bethesda says you deserve.
That's what they think of their customers.
If you buy it. You deserve it.
@jdv95 these are truly strange times and I'm really excited for that Star Wars game (I feel dirty saying that about an EA game)
The nightmare of Fallout 76 never ends, but in this case people who pays for this needs serious help
Private servers are expensive to rent look at other games on PS4 that allow it. This is cheap in comparison. Whether you like the game or not the actual cost is a lot less than other games.
If you break it down and split the cost between 8 people the cost of a private server for a whole year is £12.50 each. For a server with no other annoying people
@Octane oh i'm not giving EA an early pass.
i still don't like them,but it's just a strange time when EA does something better compared to a otherwise respected developer (bethesda).
Turning a game no one wants to pay $20 for into a recurring $100 subscription fee is why Bethesda is the poster child of "how to kill a game developer
Pay to play a Fallout game without other idiots running around the map.
I've seen it all now.
LMFAO! It just keeps getting better and better 😂😂😂
I'm really confused by all of this. Someone had to approve this idea. It obviously hasn't made enough return through their desired launch plan so why not fleece the people who do enjoy it to make up for the deficit in sales? Truly abhorrent behaviour IMO
It's like a pay-to-play version of WoW's private servers.
Crazy.
I just wanted to say, a private server is kinda stupid. The single person still playing this game already has his own private server effectively, why pay for another one?
@sonicmeerkat you have 10 friends??!! Show off
For £100 a year you could get PS Plus and PS Now for a year that's free monthly games and the ability to stream any other game from the PS2/3 and 4 catalog.
Just saying
This is ridiculous. These should be features for somehow still playing the game. This is an insult.
Now the Anthem makers will see this and think they can do one at $150 a year.
@ShogunRok I would say buy Fallout 4 GOTY Edition cheaper too. 😉
Why am i not shocked anymore. 😆
Its really a how low can you go show. 😋
I just cant get mad anymore its to
baffling now. 🤯
I forgot about 76. Are a lot of people still playing it ? I thought 76 had basically died some months ago.
@Deljo They don't get a choice in the matter.
Bethesda and Activision are having their own private who's the biggest scumbag competition. Call of duty mobile with its rigged Halloween lootbox event. Basically there are 10 prizes, 1 of which is the skin that everyone will want but its almost guaranteed not to be won until the 9th spin. Now every spin costs more than the previous one, they start off cheap and give you early purples such as xp boosts and a loot crate but the 2 that people want in the skin and weapon are almost guaranteed to be the last 2 spins out of 10, the problem? Well the price goes up exponentially and by then the spins will have cost you over $100 and Activision lies upfront by saying the Epic drops have a 42% drop rate.
Good luck to anyone buying their console game this year
I wish them good fortune in the quest to be worse than EA.
@hotukdeals hello Todd
Wow or Apple Arcade for 4.99 a month! This really is prying on the foolish. How insulting...
PS you should have said...
“We're not going to tell you how to spend your money, but don’t spend it on this...!”
They have to be absolutely out of their minds! I wouldn't pay that much for an online subscription for a game even if it were a LIFETIME subscription!
Wow... good to see Bethesda making great decisions as usual.
Are they smoking crack? The product is almost universally disliked, doesn’t have content, and then they think people will fork out 100 bucks for this??? The game didn’t even cost that much.
@Bingoboyop hahaha yeah pretty much true.
@Octane if people actually voted with their wallets, instead of talking about voting with their wallets on message boards, things might change.
@ShogunRok And how much would be that in Euros? Because netfilx is 11.99 euros in the rest of europe, about 10,35 pounds (the less expensive option).
Also, I believe this was already on the roadmap, so "in for a penny in for a pound"..
What do they really have to lose with this?
Also, if the game was a mega hit, as they thought, this would be big.
The gaming industry has become a parody of itself.
The absolute arrogance of this.
Outer. Worlds.
@LowTech Well this is it, Bethesda doesn't have anything to lose by doing this, other than what's left of its reputation. This subscription is designed to squeeze as much money as possible out of what's left of the game's playerbase.
@Arnna The truth is that they rather have the 1% that is willing to pay ridiculous amounts in MTX for a game than the sane people who just buy the game and nothing else. The so-called whales make them more money than us. That's how mobile games work. Although mobile games aren't broken $60 games on release, so it's getting worse on console if it continues like this.
@nessisonett idk stupid people I guess, after all we have whales who spend thousands on microtransactions without even thinking so don't be surprised when people pay for this too.
@carlos82 I think they have suprrassed EA at this point by miles.
First learned of this via a Jim Stirling video trending on YT...I think the first 2 mins of it was him laughing manically!
I'm sure the E3 bugthesda "Woooh" guy will be signing up for it day one!
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