Fallout 76 Won't Be Available On Steam

I'm really really REALLY disappointed by this decision. Nothing beats steam, all the other launchers/platforms are utter CRAP, including Bethesda's.

In my case Bethesda is really lucky we decided to pre-order this game with a group of friends to play, or else I would have cancelled my pre-order right away! Yes, I'm that pissed. Game costs a freaking fortune! Is it really that much to ask to release it on steam?

"Let's take our game that is already being poorly received and not release it on the platform that virtually every PC gamer uses!"
Man, you guys done bought a boat, and got that puppy set to sail for fail at top speed don't ya?

I'm sorry did Pete Hines say "exclusive to bnet"?

I'm sorry but you don't just get to try to morph the name of your game service into Bnet.

Wow. Seriously it's a pretty shitty thing he did there, and he knows it.

Battle.net has been around forever (1996) and this is a travesty to the history of gaming imo. Total slap in the face of Blizzard, one of the most respected game developer/publisher of all time.

I might get some "dude you're overreacting". But I'm sure many people are with me on this.

I have enough DRM launchers installed as is. No thanks.

I would say this is a bad thing. But, since I'm an OG PC gamer. And I have used some of the most horseshit launchers in gaming for decades. I'm really not bothered by this.

I bet Bethesda will take the time to make sure there are no bugs.

Lol

Fallout 76 sounds like a too-late-to-the-party entry into the Rust-style online survival genre that I could not possibly care less about, no matter how hard I try.

not only they avoid paying steam for the sales cut but they can avoid the negative comments in case the game has bug or just plain sucks, pretty much the same reason destiny 2 was launched on battle-net instead of steam

Because it's so hard to install another game store program next to steam, everything non-steam is the devil, too lazy? Or am I missing something cause I don't see the big deal.........

And thus Fallout 76 won't be available in my gaming library.

Doesn't bother me at all. I wasn't a big fan of Steam's almost monopoly to begin with. After that fiasco they pulled with paid mods, I liked it even less so, every time a company knocks them off their high horse is a good thing imo. Deflates their big head a bit each time it happens hopefully. Then again, this will be the first Fallout game that I don't buy anyway.

Bethesda is starting to get too big for their own britches.

ROFL! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. I really wasn't planing on picking this up because it's not a real Fallout game. It looks like another Elder Scrolls Online type scenario, where you lose the atmosphere that makes the single player so much fun. If it was on Steam though, every time I'd log in, it would be there to look at in the store. At sometime in the future, I might have been tempted to try it, but as they say, "Out of sight. Out of mind." Won't be tempted at all.

Bethesda Game Pass/subscription service incoming. Steam/Valve is shooting themselves in the foot for not being pro-active in seeing these things come to light. Publishers want as much money as they can get, yet Steam doesn't reduce fee's for publishers? I do not see Steam increasing in value from this point forward. Changes need to be made at the top of Steam in order for it to hold weight in a changing, dynamic market. There's also a giant elephant on the horizon called Google, whom are working on their own gaming system and whom will be seeking IP's as well as purchasing studios in the very near future.

But hey, at least the loss of revenue from Fallout 76 will force Valve to continue work on Left4Dead 3, Portal 3, Team Fortress 3, and Half-Life 3 or off-shoots of said IP's in order to remedy their bottom line.

Good. It will make the game that much easier to avoid.

Oh no, the sky is falling. PC gaming is dead (again. for the 100th time). Golden Age of gaming is over. BLah blah blah...

*goes back to using Steam, GoG, publisher launchers, and everything else*

I don't get why people prefer digital over physical. Can anyone enlighten me?

Steam is terrible for patching games , shame they have a monopoly so they can force developers to accept their terms or risk oblivion, i would gladly uninstall steam if dota wasnt soulbound to it. Achievement seeking manchilds are going to go mental with this move.

I have the bethesda client since launch havent experienced a single issue.

I was on the fence about this game from the beginning; now I know I won't be getting it. Bethesda.net is not a good game client and I don't see that changing by the time FO 76 releases. I understand their reasoning; but still not a good move by them.

Good! No reason it needs to be on Steam. Just like FortNite does not need to be on the Google Play Store on Mobile.

One digital market store is insane. Madden19, Unravel 2, Fall Out 76 - and I'll keep choosing to stay off Steam if given the chance.

It was inevitable, at least this gives Bethesda more incentive to properly optimize the PC version now that they control the experience from top to bottom.

I wasn't crazy about fallout MMO edition anyway. Making me go through another DRM? Nah, call me when it's on Steam.

I thought Steam sucked right from the get-go, right when I bought a physical copy of F.E.A.R. 2 so many years ago and they wanted to attach the thing to a fucking account.

Will be getting a physical Xbox One version.

Thanks for saving me $60

No Steam version = no sale

what is so horrible about it not requiring steam to run????

if you love steam running that much, just keep it running anyway.. you can even select "add non steam game" and connect it to steam yourself. so what exactly is the problem????

Alright I’m getting sick of these launchers. Origin, Uplay, Battle.net, Steam, Gog (though you can install separately) and Microsofts, Bethesda (ESO). My games are too far spread out.

I liked it back then, Steam was the only one around.

I still love Fallout so I’m obviously still getting it.

My inner cynic says this is a move to avoid Steam Player Reviews.....

Hey guys, that place you buy all your games from, we're not putting it there.

Oh wells, enjoy!