Looks like sales have been so bad, that they're offering it for $40 on Black Friday. Kind of pissing in the face of people who paid full price for it though.
What does Steam have to do with if a game is worth playing?
Do you need friends to enjoy the game or is this also a solo enjoyable game? Since all the previous Fallouts were basically solo games.
Looks to me like Bethsoft is testing the waters to see if they can do their own in-house store ala Origin to move all their content off Steam (eventually). I wouldn't have a problem with that if Bethsoft intended to run a fully-functional marketplace that would compete directly with Steam, instead of just creating a company store that sold only their games. Same basic problem I have with Origin.
If Bethesda’s game platform were anything like their games, no one would use it. They are not good programmers and can’t write solid code worth a damn. Steam wasn't always as good as it is now, but it’s hard to compete with now because it works well.
Yes, it's merely due to convenience for me. That said, I do have accounts on good old games and blizzard, but, really hate all the bloatware of bnet, and dislike having to maintain lots of accounts.Less hoops to jump through for some as having to have multiple game accounts can be an issue.
If you didn't jump in at $40, it's now down to $35 on Amazon.
Wow, this must be the worst selling fallout in history if its down that cheap in first few week of sales.
They should have done "Steam: Early Access" where they could work out their bugs
More importantly, they could say "this game is still under development, of course it's not done yet", when everybody who reviews it says "this game is incomplete, they still haven't added the NPCs."At least then it would be on Steam, right?
Probably not. The old Black Isle games sold in very small quantity compared to what Bethsoft has managed in sales numbers. Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel was the nail in the coffin for the "old" series. It sold like crap.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people have since bought the original games on Steam or GOG, especially when they go on sale for cheap. It probably doesn't compare to your regular AAA launch, but given how much of a discount Fallout 76 is getting, the sales really could be that poor, where the original game has actually sold more.
Some are saying Fallout76 is selling maybe 82% of what Fallout4 sold.
Did you mean 18%, because I can't see any company deeply discounting their new game so soon if it's only selling 82% of what it's best selling title did.