With Fallout 76 and its new NPCs finally released on Steam, it looks like players on the platform have had the same reaction as everyone else to the game’s controversial Fallout 1st subscription service.
Fallout 1st was a slightly tone-deaf addition for Fallout 76 that charged players for private servers and some rather underwhelming cosmetic DLC while the game wasn’t in its best state. At £11.99 a month, it doesn’t represent the best value in subscription services — you have to be playing the game fairly religiously to get your money’s worth.
If you go on over to the new and trending tab on Steam currently, you will see Fallout 76 riding high with a predictably mixed review rating, though it is, weirdly, a sign of progress from where the game was a year ago. Can you believe Fallout 76 came out in October 2018? It feels like it’s been haunting us for years and years.
Anyway, you will also see Fallout 1st in the same chart, itself with a predictably mixed reception. What we really should have predicted more than that, though, was that players would abuse the tag system on Steam.
Fallout 1st is currently tagged with esteemed genres such as ‘Comedy’, ‘Dark Comedy’, and ‘Funny’, right on the front page of Steam.
If you go and look at more of the game’s tags, some other dings appear, such as ‘Parody, ‘Hentai’, and, my personal favourite, ‘Capitalism’. I will never get over the fact that Vault Boy was initially intended to be satirical of capitalism, yet look at him now.
Tags on Steam can be submitted by everyone, but the fact that those few are what Steam chose to highlight right on its storefront homepage is just quintessential Fallout 76.
After the canvas bags, the mold, the game-breaking bugs, and so, so much more, it doesn’t look like Fallout 76 will ever catch a break.
That said, early signs are suggesting that the Wastelanders update is a mini-renaissance for the game, it adding NPCs, proper quests and making a whole host of bug fixes and improvements. It may never bring its biggest detractors back around, but at least its community loves it.
Fallout 76 is out now for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
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