The in-game item, available for $7, has players pushing back against Bethesda for violating rules that were established back when the game first launched.
Some companies just don’t seem to learn, do they? Despite the disastrous launch of Fallout 76 last year, the game has (somehow) managed to keep on trucking, going so far as to actually garner a fairly substantial player-base. Look, weirder things have happened, but I never thought Bethesda’s notoriously buggy open-world survival multiplayer game was going to make it past a year. Despite the atrocious reviews the game garnered and the copious amounts of fan outrage, it’s managed to keep its head above water even with some shady business practices which just keep on rearing their ugly faces.
The shady practice this time is the inclusion of the Atom Shop refrigerator, an in-game item that allows players to store their food and consumables and slow the spoilage rate by 50%. It’s an incredibly useful item that’s unfortunately been locked behind $7 of your real-world money, despite Bethesda insisting that microtransactions would only be used to purchase cosmetic items in Fallout 76. If you’re keeping score against Bethesda’s other weird pricing models, that’s $2 cheaper than the Automatron expansion pack for Fallout 4, which added way more than just a fridge.
The Fallout 76 subreddit is currently on fire (more so than usual), requesting that Bethesda re-evaluate their pricing choices as it violates what was promised at the game’s launch, alongside the fact that R100 for a stupid fridge is kinda ludicrous. Another day in 2019, another stupid mistake from Bethesda.
Last Updated: September 11, 2019
Kromas
September 11, 2019 at 12:30
Not just a fridge. A automatic scrap collector as well. We are not happy.
Stoompot
September 11, 2019 at 13:02
I almost bought the game once, but then my meth dealer called and I still have some teeth left
Kromas
September 11, 2019 at 13:02
The game is super fun. Just temporarily stopping playing in protest.
Stoompot
September 11, 2019 at 14:22
In a perfect world everyone would, or at least stop buying atoms. That would make then take notice. But for every 100 people that never buy MT it seems there’s always one dropping hundreds of dollars every month.
Yahtzee
September 11, 2019 at 12:30
Those damn entitled gamers bitching about micro transactions again.
Admiral Chief
September 11, 2019 at 12:40
Stop being such a whale!
Viper_ZA
September 11, 2019 at 12:30
It’s a meh game at best…
G8crasha
September 11, 2019 at 12:40
It should be an item that is built into the main game by default! There is absolutely no point in pursuing all the recipes in the game when it all spoils, so an entire game mechanic is nerfed because Bethesda are greedy!
Psycadelic Bear
September 11, 2019 at 12:50
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HvR
September 11, 2019 at 12:50
So digital retro Smeg fridges are as overpriced as their real world counterparts
HvR
September 11, 2019 at 12:51
Things are so bad that F76 players are even protesting in front of Bethesda’s offices
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Stoompot
September 11, 2019 at 13:02
Only thing weirder would be Anthem reviving it’s player base.
Also, this game was a mistake. They were to preoccupied with selling MT to bother testing the damn game.
Magoo マグ
September 11, 2019 at 13:22
That’s not cool B. Or is it?