Fallout 76 Is Getting Review Bombed by Irritated Fans

i would not call all the people that gave low scoring "reviews" petty.

sure some just give a zero without having played it,but lot's of the people that have played it are of the same "it is a garbage game" opinion

so maybe the zero's from people that have not played it yet are actually more accurate then not.

i won't give it a score because i will never play it myself,but i can believe all those impression from the players.

Who knew developers weren't allowed to experiment with THEIR franchise? 😂

@daveofduncan it is allowed if it does not result in a broken mess that retails at full price.

Sounds fair to me.

@jdv95 the hate for it was spewing the minute they announced some form of multiplayer. Long before anyone had played and seen the bugs. It's pathetic.

@daveofduncan true.

but still,there are many people that actually looked forward to this game and played the beta and the final retail product that are also of the opinion that this is just a game that should never have been released in such a poor state.regardless of future patches.

so hating it for petty reasons or not,it IS a bad game as of now. and they knew that before release,heck they even said themselves that the release would have many problems,and still asked full price for it and expected fans to still buy it first day and just wait for the future patches to fix the things that should have been fixed while in development.

every game gets fixes,but no game should be this poor when releasing.

so again if those zeros are just from petty fans that will never play it,the score is not that far from the quality of the game if the people who do play it are to be believed.

I’ve not personally played it yet, but judging by what publications and many review sites are saying they probably have a right to be annoyed if they have paid £50 for a technical mess etc. Not sure labelling them as petty is nice although unfortunately some people can be.

I love this, it's entertaining to me. If we let Bethesda get away with this, imagine in what state they will release future Fallout titles or Elder Scrolls VI. Clearly they don't even bother releasing a finished game.

These days the first wave of reviews are always done by people who rate things 1/10 or 10/10. People who have already made up their minds long before they have actually played a game. It's a common thing today. So I take this news with a fair grain of salt.

Awww I love when I'm right!

while i’m no fallout fan i can see why some fans against the title are well against it. It looks really empty. no npcs, no towns, no world changing decisions. that’s all a huge part of what makes fallout fallout

I'll give them 6 months to fix it and then see if it's worth considering. Even then my expectations aren't high.

I doubt it’s a 0, I mean that would entail everyone turning into a mix of a man and tentacle monster having time they moved, so that’s pretty, but general low scores are understandable.
@daveofduncan But how many of the doubters are right? It seems there were some well founded suspicions.

All I know is I’m glad I didn’t plunk any money down on this game.

I had this game preordered and then after playing the beta I drop the preorder. Just don't buy this game it will never be fully fixed.

I haven’t played or reviewed it myself but I’m not surprised people are whacking zeroes on it. I think it’s fair to say the majority of the fanbase has been pretty vocal about their disinterest in an online focused fallout/elder scrolls. Why mess with what works? Bethesda really had to nail this one to win people over and by the sound of things they failed. Maybe they should just take it as lesson learned and stick to what they’re good at. My view on Bethesda as a company hasn’t changed, I still like them I just probably will give 76 a miss.

Least we are getting reviews I am surprised Bethesda didn't uphold a Review embargo on launch day

@Nakatomi_Uk User reviews aren’t going to be affected by embargo’s, only critics. Users neither know nor care about them. And only 1 review for the PC is out, so it really has no critic reviews yet.

@jdv95 I feel the same way, I won't even bother with this mess of a release after seeing some of the videos full of glitches and game breaking bugs, and this after the whole "game deleting itself" and then not being able to complete uninstall everything fiasco.
I honestly believe Bethesda doesn't want anyone supporting this game, in fact I'm under the impression Zenimax forced Bethesda to create this trash in an attempt to get in on the whole games as a service/monetization trend that's plaguing the triple A industry now.

@Infinite_J_777 I think they should try a little harder. There are so many great games now and to stand out you need to bring your A-game. Nothing wrong with trying something new but stop putting out broken games and stop with the will fix it later attitude.

And a Zero is nonsense anyway the same with a 10 on a game that has some problems. 🤨😑

@Amusei I take it you didn't play Skyrim on PS3 at release. Who's still bitter? I'm not bitter xD

@daveofduncan "Who knew developers weren't allowed to experiment with THEIR franchise?"

Anyone who was a fan of Mass Effect, that's who 😂

I agree it is a bit petty but something needs to be done about studios putting out full price broken retail games. The thing that gets me about this is they knew it was broken and released a statement a couple weeks ago and still went ahead and released it instead of delaying it. You would of thought someone somewhere in the company would have some pride in there work and say there is no way we can release this in this state.

@bindiana again, Skyrim on PS3. It was so broken it was literally unplayable because of the lag, then there was the mess with the DLC. They rushed it out for early release on 360 without checking whether it would even work on Sony, and shocker - it didn't. That was 2011. That was seven years ago, almost to date. Complaining on the Internet won't change anything, except maybe get DLC cancelled because of low expected sales, as above: See ME:A. If people want to see real change they need to stop pre-ordering, stop buying on day one, stop handing over money without guarantee of a worthwhile product. It's easy to forget that business is about profit when the product is fun, something like a game, but really big companies don't give a crap whether you have fun, they just want your money and they're getting it so they don't see the issue.

This is fantastic! If only all games that seek to rip off fans with inferior products got rated this way then the makers would start to think again. It's time that the important people in all of this, the people who spend £50-60 on it, bit back and said enough is enough - we don't want microtransactions, buggy releases, day one beta's etc. It's not on.

You could clearly see what a massive pile of dated buggy garbage this game was from all the YouTube videos berating this unfinished half arsed product. So anyone complaining now after buying it, only have themselves to blame.

@Flaming_Kaiser I agree. My job has a quality control department and if I was cracking out the shoddy quality of work that Bethesda do then I’d have been sacked years ago. And your right about the scores too, if I see a zero or a ten I tend to ignore the user review and look for something more realistic. That’s not to say I’ve never got carried away and rated something as perfect when in reality it has flaws but hey I’m only human! All I’m saying is I’m not ready to completely write off Bethesda games in the future. Hopefully they will take note of this recent negativity and step up their game going forward.

@daveofduncan is it an experiment or are they just trying shoehorn in microtransactions into their game for the cash grab.

I feel alone, atop a mountain that no one has yet dared to climb... but I will say this loud and proud. I LIKE THIS GAME!!! That’s right folks. I’m having a blast in the wasteland. Is it picture perfect? No. Is it the smoothest running game? No. But is it fun to explore and discover new things with friends? Absolutely. I understand people aren’t happy with the product when they try to compare it to RDR2, but it’s not trying to be that. I’ll continue wandering the wasteland, so if you happen to run into me out there hit me up and we’ll explore together!

I think it's worth mentioning that despite the performance issues on PS4 (which would understandably affect the user scores), Fallout 76 is currently sitting with an even lower score for XBox One (and PC is only faring slightly better). So it's pretty safe to say that gamers on any platform are, for the most part, unimpressed.

So a friend sent me an article by Kotaku about what a game engine is, and it was pretty enlightening. If you want to check it out and learn a little bit, here it is! Also, PushSquare got a shoutout in it.

https://kotaku.com/the-controversy-over-bethesdas-game-engine-is-misguided-1830435351

@MRaajDar Actually I did, luckily for me, I didn't experience any major bugs at all.

Hello. I tried to play fallout 76 and still can't. It took 9 hours at 30mg speed to download the 50g update. When it finally finished I put it on. Made my character and there was no sound. Played guitar, bar game, even the voice didn't have sound. As it was late I turned off. Went on it this morning and there was sound but had to remake my character even though the photo I took previous had come up on the loading screen. I had to close game as I had to go to a meeting, put it back on and yet again I was reset to the begining to make a character and now no sound again. Tried turning off and back on. Nothing, 4 times had to restart with no sound. Now I've uninstalled it. Need to wait another 9 hours for it to reinstall. If it still doesn't work I'm taking it back to get my money back. I'm really angry as it's been a tradition to have fallout every time it came out as it always came out on my birthday. Very disappointed as I loved the others and was looking forward to another fallout birthday

@daveofduncan cuz its technically interplay/obsidians franchise, though Bethesda owns it, they are not good stewards of the IP

Can u imagine fallout5 or starfield if bethesda actually pulls a 180 and for real puts every bit of care and effort into them!? They seem to love shooting themselves in the foot. Im as big of a fallout eso fan as they come but there really doesseem to be a glaring lack of effort/care put into their games.

@Infinite_J_777 My problem is they all act

BTW i have no beef with Quality Control i think its mostly big triple A companies who push games out when they are not ready.

You know why im a Sony fanboy. I like that they push back game release dates back because they game needs to be polished. And not because it needs to be released before the holidays.

@Flaming_Kaiser yeah spot on mate! Haha. I’d rather wait a bit longer for a properly polished and smooth game rather than deal with massive issues on release. A few bugs here and there, especially in large open-worlders is fine and to be expected but there should be no excuse for game breakers. And when I say a bit longer I mean a bit not years -cough- square enix -cough-..

Review bombing is so silly. Most people that care about reviews go to gaming critics rather than joe bob the average dude or they talk to their friends if they have it as there may be an overlap in tastes. Otherwise people that are going to buy the game will not be impacted by someone that has not played it but wanted to throw a fit publicly has to say (which is different from someone playing and actually reviewing the game...keyword is review).

Don't like the direction a company is taking? Vote with your wallet, review bombing only makes consumer reviews a useless feature to be ignored...which isn't fair to people that make actual reviews.

@Infinite_J_777 Square Enix my old favorite company. This is the new Square Enix.