What a complete, total and utter disgrace. So i decided to give this game another chance after a $100 tricentenial (everything in the tricentenial pack was a complete waste.) pre-order on xbox one. I didnt care that it was online and strayed from traditional fallout. Even though thats literally the stupidest idea ive ever heard anyone have in my life. People did hound bethesda left and right on every fallout 4 post "make it multiplayer der der der im an idiot" they said. I remember sitting there thinking these must either be young kids or incredibly inbred/pseudo mentally handicapped people, or i dunno fallout 4 was the first fallout they had ever played and were also dumb as a bag of d*cks stapled to Malin Akerman, and now somehow were the prevelant voice/commentors listened to by bethesda.

Honestly i was excited to share fallout with my friends upon seeing the ads for 76, I thought maybe they thought of a way to make it not terrible and i was wrong. No effort in anyway imaginable was put into even attempting to make this a like 4 player drop in with some fun to be had. I frequently commented how stupid anyone saying to make fallout 4 multiplayer was, which they were in fact stupid AF, seeing how it turned out. (Bottom line is that was an extremely dumb idea and this game does NOT offer you any opportunity to enjoy a fallout game with friends.) Listening to fans is good an all, but this is what happens when you listen to children and complete morons.

I pre-ordered it because Bethesda had a rep for making at least decent games. It was so bad that within a couple months the 3-4 friends i had convinced to buy it and we all played daily, had all quit due to the sheer frustration of how broken this game was. I literally lost face with respected personal friends because they thought i was a complete moron for saying "nah fallout games are sweet you gotta buy this." Ive bought and played EVERY SINGLE FALLOUT TITLE. Ive bought and played every elder scrolls since daggerfall. This is just a joke, not even a joke it's an actual real life MAJOR CRIME involving false advertisement, theft in the hundreds of thousands if not millions and shady business tactics. (but then again thats exactly what robert altman is known for, ill get into that later)

I didnt even get to play the game this time, with bethesda.net login errors upon attempting to launch and i will be refunding. (the first refund on my steam account ever, and ive had it since the very day steam even became a thing that existed.) Two years later and the first thing i run into is errors that keep me from even playin 1 second. Bye bye second chance. This whole mess has been nothing short of criminal and a latent attempt to STEAL from all the fans that became loyal to bethesda before Robert Altman, ceo of Zenimax which owns bethesda, took control by stabbing the friend that brought him into the company in the back.

Robert Altman is complete scum, is cancer to the gaming industry and has been indicted for federal level criminal charges relating to super shady business dealings. As soon as he took charge (shortly before the creation of Fallout 4) greedy money hungry tactics started. They started "updating" fallout 4 and skyrim on an almost bimonthly basis, with what werent updates, just small bits of code that were designed to break every mod presently existing for the game. They fixed nothing and offered nothing. They couldnt even bother adding the fixes the unofficial patches fixed, they just set out to break these mods by any means possible so they can make more money from it all being creation club content.

I love how in the press they say "when you try new things, things might go wrong" a multiplayer game isnt a new thing. a mmo isnt a new thing. A fallout game isnt a new thing. Yet they try an play it off like their shady a$$ business practices, since Altman took control, were anything but a large company/ultra rich people violating american laws and ripping people off on purpose. Every single thing they say is a lie and a garbage excuse for the fact that they decided to release a game that needed at least another year of work. They decided to put out big budget commercials implying the game was ready (false advertising), not that it would be ready nearly 2 years from now (when its now FREE with xbox gamepass BC it's such a POS game.) No where in any of those commercials did i see any mention of "this is an experiment with a $60-100 price tag."

You dont get props or applause for ALMOST getting a game up to snuff almost two years after you sold it to people for finished game price. Just what a joke. The higher ups at bethesda and zenimax should be fired, replaced, or they should quit or commit ritualistic suicide any of those are fine with me. They know, in their hearts, they are complete scumbags. They know what they've done here was wrong and borderline criminal. From the whole shady promotions with the canvas bags to their crap $300 bottle of rum. You can just see some scumbag dude who belongs in jail is now running things at bethesda. They dont care, they get mega rich off ripping people off and no one is even going to attempt to hold them accountable for their actions.

As a household, we will never buy another bethesda product again no matter what games we miss or what they put out. My teen son is no longer allowed to purchase bethesda products. They have ruined all faith and i give about a 90% chance that even if a memory of bethesda, before Robert Altman took control, causes me to buy another game from them, it will be a $hit scummy EA level low quality high priced thing i wished id never bought.

People helped ruin this game too, all you doublehomos who got nothin better to do but cheat and dupe in every dam game you play, yall helped ruin this game by being $hitty people and at least half the blame falls squarely at your feet. Whole reddit communities based around selling duplicated 1 in a million chance armor and weapons. All of you who participated in that should be ashamed of yourselves. (now wiping every character and all inventory is the only way to even hope to save this game because of you D-bags) All you people upvoting this absolute $hit game are to blame too. How dare you recommend this broken shameless cash grab to people. Ya'll create the EA's, the microsofts, and now the bethesda's by having no objective thought and advising people to buy $hitty terrible games that dont deserve an ounce of respect from anyone period.

Again, to reiterate, as long as Robert Altman (look him up, he is a for real scumbag) is in control of zenimax this is just the beginning of how scummy bethesda will become. I have no idea how ANYONE can sit there and say this is acceptable with a thumbs up. Thank god for Steam not being scumbags like bethesda or microsoft and allowing me a fair and right refund.