The sad thing is that none of this shit will matter. The game will still sell millions of copies and there will even be codexers that will buy it or have bought it already.
At least so far, the sales data seems pretty ugly. In the first week (including preorders), UK retail sales are down 82.4% versus Fallout 4. Some of that may be because digital's gotten bigger since 2015, but it was already pretty damn big three years ago.
https://hothardware.com/news/fallou...w-uk-sales-massive-update-to-address-problems
If that's representative of the rest of the world, F76 has maybe sold 2.15 million copies (F4 did 12 million right out of the gate). That's two million too many, but it's probably much less than they were expecting. And who knows, the PC decline versus F4 could be even worse than 82%. Making people buy it through the Bethesda store means they're going to get less exposure than putting it on Steam and no one likes downloading yet another fucking app.
We also know GameStop is discounting F76 by 33% for Black Friday, which is an insane markdown for a game that hasn't even been out for two weeks. How often can you get a brand new AAA game for 1/3 off in the same month it came out?
It's going to be a grim Thanksgiving at the Todd Howard household.
