F76 never stops failing...Bethesda being incompetent yet again

[MadMummy76]

At this point I'm not even feeling sorry for them.

Some Fallout 76 players have discovered that there is a hidden area in the game world, that is ordinarily not accessible by players.

This is an area, where the devs test out items, and even parts of quests before pushing it out to the masses. And it's filled to the brim with items and consumables from the game.
Apparently this is a well known practice for bethesda to put such rooms in their games. According to sources every game of theirs had something similar going back all the way to oblivion.

Of course those being single player games it wasn't a big problem, many games from other developers had leftover areas that they forgot to remove before shipping the game.
But this being a multiplayer game with microtransactions getting free stuff by going into a dev area is a problem.

Guess how bethesda handled this discovery? Did they apologize for their incompetence and vowed to patch it out as quickly as possible? Of course not!
They started banning the accounts of people who accessed the developer room!

I mean it's like the thief suing the home owner for getting glass shards in his hands during a break-in.

There was a video of a player exploring this hidden room on youtube, but it has been removed since, no doubt due to a copryright claim by bethesda. I especially liked the touch that the uploader had put the trailer for The Outer Worlds at the end of the video

Here is a re-upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0MaCxCnMa0


So what do you think? Did Bethesda do the right thing by banning players who glitched their way into the developer area?

I glossed over their incompetence about F76 so far because I was never interested in the game in the first place. But at this point I'm starting to have doubts if I even want Starfield or ES6 from the people who ban players who exploit the glitches that they themselves left in the game.

[Thomas_JCG]

https://twitter.com/Fallout/status/1088179616358064131

haha oh wow

Yeah, wonder how many fools will fall for that. Crap game, crap bag, crap rum and now a crap jacket.

[AlexKidd]

https://twitter.com/Fallout/status/1088179616358064131

haha oh wow

[fenrif]

Bethesda aren't exactly known for being familiar with the concept of "truth."

[Thomas_JCG]

That's kind of old news, Bethesda has said the rumor is false.

[Jokerthefoolio]

Fallout 76 is a gaffe king at this point. I hope Starfield is good though

[Gemini73]

Don't know a great deal about the site linked, but a rumour has surfaced (based on a number of factors, including copies of the game being pulled from shelves) that Fallout 76 could be going free to play


https://segmentnext.com/2019/01/21/r...-free-to-play/

[Sirgeorge]

I guess we'll never be rid of it then, not until there's a realization that the money that game costs in terms of bad pr and resources pumped won't be made up for in money making items.

[Gemini73]

At a certain point it just becomes sad to look at Fallout 76. I wonder how long until the game just...goes away. How much longer Bethesda?

As long as there are opportunities to monitise Fallout 76 with what ever audience they still have for the game I can't see it disappearing any time soon.

My concern is for TES 6. I've always accepted a certain level of incompetence from Bethesda because they generally do release good games, but Fallout 76 and everything surrounding it has made me rather wary about the developers future projects.

[Sirgeorge]

At a certain point it just becomes sad to look at Fallout 76. I wonder how long until the game just...goes away. How much longer Bethesda?

[Gemini73]

Man, this has been a mess from the get-go.

qasmoke was the console command for Skyrim's developer room, but that was for a single player game so no harm done. In an online MP game? Not so great.

That said, I'm sure Bethesda could have handled it better. Make light of the situation, give the players a warning then patch and lock access to the room up. Given the complete train wreck that is Fallout 76, not going in with a sledge hammer would have probably faired better with the community. Instead they've chucked more petrol on an already raging fire.

[Demi-Fiend of Time]

This is just such a beautiful tranwreck to stare and laugh at how rediculous it's getting! How much more gas can they add to this fire XD

[DragonLewd]

The sad thing is, I was actually kind of hyped for a co-op Fallout game until details started emerging about how it worked. Then we had the direct copying of FO4 files, duffel bag scandal, Nuka Dark Rum etc.

Bethesda had already disappointed me with FO4 and FO76 is gonna be the end of the series for me unless they can get their heads out their asses and correct it, but that seems unlikely.

[Aidy]

No. No it's not.

[fenrif]

Yes yes it is.