Fallout 76 players have now gotten so angry at Bethesda they are protesting against the company inside its own game. This news is the latest to come from Bethesda's recent unveiling of their premium subscription service Fallout 1st, which costs players either $12.99 a month or $99.99 dollars a year and, at the time of this writing, still does not deliver completely working versions of either of the service's top two selling points.
One of the things Fallout 76 players have been asking for since the game's original release last year was the ability to control who was in their game's server, and the Fallout 1st program was intended to finally deliver what players had been asking for. Even though Bethesda had previously stated multiple times there would never be paid content updates to the game, some players were still excited to finally be able to have private servers. However, those players which did buy into the Fallout 1st program soon found out those servers weren't so private after all, as anyone on the player's friends list could join in at any time with no control given to stop it.
This, combined with the service's other main selling point, a bottomless scrap container players have also been begging for which has seemingly lost multiple user's items with no way yet to regain them, is one of the main reasons why players are now going as far as to boycott Fallout 76, with others protesting Bethesda inside their own game. As reported by Eurogamer and demonstrated in this player's tweet below, it appears some of Bethesda's loyal fans have finally had enough while others don't seem to see the problem.
Response to Bethesda's premium subscription service can best be described as "mixed, but mostly negative" with the majority of players feeling both hurt and cheated by the company. Although Bethesda has responded to their fans requests to deliver a working version of the service they have paid for, there is no word yet on exactly when an update to give players control over their private worlds or a bug fix for the Scrap Box will be implemented.
There are still some die-hard fans of Fallout 76, but unless Bethesda's behavior changes in the near future even those players may begin to look elsewhere for post-apocalyptic base-building mayhem. With the developer recently acquiring Alpha Dog Games, a mobile developer, perhaps those players will have a Android and iOS version of Fallout similar to The Elder Scrolls: Blades in the near future. For everyone else, especially fans of the developers of another Fallout 1st benefit, Fallout: New Vegas' desert ranger armor, there is always The Outer Worlds.