This past week, Battlestate Games, the folks behind Escape from Tarkov, upset a lot of players by offering a super pricey $250 package for a game that’s not even finished. It caused quite a stir and made people question their choices.
But guess what? Another gaming company, Bethesda Game Studios, joined the club by doing something pretty unnecessary.
They decided to update Fallout 4, a game that’s been around for nine years and still has a huge fan base making cool mods.
But get this: the update they rolled out didn’t change much. It broke a bunch of mods, which upset a lot of players. And the new stuff they added? Well, let’s just say it didn’t impress anyone.
They fixed some bugs, which is good, but then they added “ultrawide support” which messed up the game’s interface.
Plus, they didn’t do anything about a problem that’s been crashing the game on certain fancy graphics cards for six whole years. And to top it off, there were no cool graphics upgrades for PC players, not even a little bit of ray tracing.
They threw in some extra stuff from their Creation Club, but that just made people mad because they had to give up a ton of free mods for it.
Many modders are now working to fix their mods, but this mess could’ve been avoided if Bethesda had talked to them before releasing the update. And why force everyone to get the update? They could’ve tested it out first with a beta version.
Some people say this update is mainly for consoles, to make Fallout 4 run better on the newer ones.
But why should PC players suffer for that? It seems like a sloppy move to make things worse for us just to help out console players. And to make matters worse, even console players aren’t happy with the update.
All in all, it’s been a rough week for gaming companies making questionable decisions.