Fallout 76 players believe the Atom shop prices are getting out of hand
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£16 for a Christmas bundle of virtual items! £14 for a giant camp sign! A tenner for some Christmas emotes! There's new gubbins on sale at Fallout 76's Atom shop - and players
reckon they're getting ripped off.
Visit the Atom shop in Fallout 76 right now and you'll see a few limited-time items for sale. The bundle "Comin' to town" is discounted from 3000 Atoms to 2000 Atoms. This bundle
includes Mr and Mrs. Claus outfits, a stuffed radstag camp decoration and Mr and Mrs. Claus player icons. Based on the fact you can't just buy this bundle with real-world money
directly (you have to buy Atoms in set denominations), it'll set you back around £16. That's down from 3000 Atoms remember, which means Bethesda values "Comin' to town" at just
over £20.
Moving on to the Red Rocket Mega Sign, which costs 1400 Atoms - this giant, light-up camp sign will set you back £14, although you'll have a couple of hundred Atoms change.
And then there's the bundle of 12 Christmas emotes, which costs 1200 Atoms, down from 2400. This means Bethesda values this pack at £16.
It's not just new Atom items that are in the firing line, either. There's a sense - one that's been around since Fallout 76 launched - that Atom prices are too expensive, and the virtual
items cost too many Atoms. The reaction to these prices has been overwhelmingly negative, even on the normally Fallout 76 positive subreddit for the game.
It's also not a good look for Fallout 76 at this point in its life, a month after the disastrous launch. It is (was) a full-price game. Selling skins at the kind of price you'd expect to see from
the free-to-play Fortnite doesn't make a lot of sense for those who paid full whack at release.
I don't quite understand why the bundled items are discounted, given they have never been sold before now, wouldn't it be smarter just to set them at that price already.
Or is this a case of manipulation, setting something on a discount so peoples minds see a deal.
They're not hiring psychologists and sociologists for nothing.
Its pricing manipulation, making something look cheaper than it is.
Bethesda is trying to make back as much money as they can off the title currently, doesn't help that the studio they handed this all too is inexperienced and is really half arsing the updates and bug fixes.
Y'know, when I first heard of this game I wasn't expecting it to be phenomenal. I thought that at worst it would just be mediocre and buggy... but after all the shit that Bethesda has been pulling with this game (no refunds, almost no bugfixes, shitty microtransactions, almost no support at all) I'm feeling a little iffy on buying any more of their games. It feels like they've gotten worse, not better.
reminds me of black friday deals
store sells for 80 euros, but on black friday, they jack up the prices and "cut them" down, so you essentially pay the same as on a regular day
It's odd seeing them compared to how much they cost to buy.
It's not the items that are really that bad (not great but there's nothing amazing to buy in the first place so you're missing out on nothing)
It's the price to buy atoms in the first place that's fucking ludicrous.
In-game they throw atoms at you like anything, the idea that 100 atoms = $1 is crazy considering you can do achievements that give you that much.
20$ for skins. The season pass for 4 was 20$ for 3 addons.
Can't believe people are stupid enough to give them more money after the initial purchase of the game as it is, if they're gonna charge out the ass for this stuff maybe the people who buy it deserve to lose their money.
This, and according to recent datamines, Bethesda looks set to be adding Lunch Boxes (their version of loot boxes) to the game.
The game failed spectacularly, and Bethesda is trying their hardest to make back on the investment by milking the people who are still sticking with the game. I wanna say they probably wouldn't be resorting to this if the game wasn't a trash fire and sold well, but we're also talking the same devs who implemented paid mods in the past and then replaced it with curated community made microtransactions after that flopped. So, even if the game sold better than Skyrim, they'd probably still implement this bullshit.
The Children of Atom do not approve of this use of his likeness.
Can't wait for Rage 2 and Doom: Eternal to be filled to the fucking brim with microtransactions.
Not even that unlikely considering that all games on the Bethesda Launcher are always online. And yes, they are both going to be exclusives... at least initially.
Those player icons are so fucking lazy to boot.
I get the argument that it's your money and you can choose to use it on what you want, but even if you're Bill Gates, if you're buying this shit, go get your head checked, because this stuff is just so asinine.
That's fucking $15 for a sign. Wow ultra fuck off
Literally haven’t heard a single good thing about this game
Some of the new guns are cool. I hope a modder ports them into Fallout 4.
I agree, the prices are too much.
the skins cost more than the game itself should
Every single time I hear about this fucking game it's somehow even worse than before. And Lunch Boxes are supposedly going to contain damage boosters, so here come the P2W lootboxes.
Fucking incredible.
All evidence so far points to them being free rewards, not something you can buy.
A prop for $15. Anybody who even considers making this purchase and is above the age of a toddler should take a good look at themselves in the mirror...
I find it sad that Neko Atsume, a 4 year old mobile game, still has what I believe is what should be the standard for premium currency and earning it through gameplay. Yes, that game is essentially checking it at intervals to either snap pictures, collect rewards, rearrange what toys you have out and put fresh food out, but you the rate you randomly obtain premium currency is quite tolerable, even fair. Also, they haven't just arbitrarily jacked up the price of premium goods, it's still the same exchange rate to convert normal currency to premium and while there hasn't been new content in a while newly introduced premium goods can be obtained in maybe a week or so or casual play. Yes, you can just buy premium currency, but it's a rare instance of the option to do so really only does exist as a time saver.
Though aside from greed, I imagine that it wasn't high profile enough for other companies to "borrow" the premium currency mechanics from.
Put this into perspective, a game that came out more than 10 years ago (Garry’s Mod) has had more free content that is nearly 1 click away and more community features than this.
you could download thousands of props from your favorite games free while a single one here costs $15.
Game is dying fast and hard, Beth are rushing to milk every cent they can from it.
Honestly, I really love Bethesda - perhaps "past" Bethesda - but I really hope they crash and burn a little bit to learn from this.
Microtransactions really don't have a place in AAA titles/titles that aren't free to play. This is the only thing I wish was regulated.
I'm the same here.
Part of me can't stop laughing at 76 and it's descend into madness, but also a part of me feels upset to see a company that's produced games that's greatly impacted my childhood and later years get humiliated like this even if it's their own fault. I really want Beth to learn from this, this was coming for quite some time with how shit their QA has been. I want nothing more than for them to succeed and go back to being beloved. I really don't want TES 6 to flop..
horse armor was the beginning of the end
Part of me hopes that Outer Worlds will trample all over Starfield and force Beth to reevaluate its approach to game development.
Clearly 76 damaged there brand and reputation, the spotlight is going to be on them for the next release, looking for the same issues.
That's the point. You price something at $20, so just put $30 with a line through it beside it. It was never $30, never planned to be $30. But people see it and go Oh 33% off!
I guarantee you those deals are limited time in that they won't be for sale after it expires
Maybe I'll try this game with my friends when it goes free to play, but otherwise I don't know why anyone would ever want to be even remotely involved with this game in the current travesty state it's in.
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