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The Wasteland Earns a Whopping $750M in 24-Hours - Fallout 4 News

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited November 2015 in News & Features Discussion
The Wastland Earns a Whopping $750M in 24-Hours - Fallout 4 News

A game is assuredly a success when it makes Fortune magazine. In an article posted the other day, it was revealed that Bethesda and the Fallout 4 team raked in $750M in day one sales. That translates to 12M copies sold in the first 24-hours.

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  • Righteous_RockRighteous_Rock Member RarePosts: 1,234
    The game is just awesome. It works perfectly for my casual style that enjoys randomness , exploration, story, creativity, guns, explosions, and my best friend dogmeat.
  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    The game is very good, but their marketing campaign is superb. Their media blitz is still ongoing. I can't watch any sports on TV without seeing The Wanderer 30 second spot several times.
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  • SirmatthiasSirmatthias Member UncommonPosts: 562
    This - "As the franchise has grown more mature over the years, it has inevitably attracted a larger player base" -is why we lost the rpg side of this game. Bethesda took the rpg and made it all the other fps out there. They did it for the money and it worked can you blame them?
  • LynxJSALynxJSA Member RarePosts: 3,334
    My benevolent beginnings have drifted, and I am slowly becoming General Sebastian Monroe from Revolution. 


    ...and I'm comfortable with that.
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  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332
    Righteous_Rock said:
    The game is just awesome. It works perfectly for my casual style that enjoys randomness , exploration, story, creativity, guns, explosions, and my best friend dogmeat.
    idk about randomness or story or creativity but the rest you got right and pretty much sums up the entire game.
    90+% is just wandering around looking for loot and usually ending up with more useless loot than you need.
    Guns for the most part are just simple boring guns.I would want cool stuff like the Unreal shock Rifle kind of stuff with cool combo attacks.Yeah i know my liking is more sci fi oriented but i just can't fathom any fun out of shooting a pistol or semi automatic sniper rifle.

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  • chillizchilliz Member UncommonPosts: 96
    edited November 2015
    To me it just gets boring very fast. After doing a few quests, exploring, etc it just dosnt have any staying powerfor me. Gets boring real fast imo. I have found having played mmos for over 10 years that I just cant play single player games anymore no matter how good they are. I need multiplayer in everything I play


  • LynxJSALynxJSA Member RarePosts: 3,334
    chilliz said:
    To me it just gets boring very fast. After doing a few quests, exploring, etc it just dosnt have any staying powerfor me. Gets boring real fast imo. I have found having played mmos for over 10 years that I just cant play single player games anymore no matter how good they are. I need multiplayer in everything I play
    Sometimes the absence of a single component can be a major deal breaker.In the case of multiplayer, that's a rather huge component, so I can see how the game can be missing a lot for someone that likes that aspect in their games. 
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  • TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 10,014
    chilliz said:
    To me it just gets boring very fast. After doing a few quests, exploring, etc it just dosnt have any staying powerfor me. Gets boring real fast imo. I have found having played mmos for over 10 years that I just cant play single player games anymore no matter how good they are. I need multiplayer in everything I play
    Yeah I am in the same boat...its nice to have other people to talk to while youre playing.
  • st4t1ckst4t1ck Member UncommonPosts: 768
    Theocritus said:
    chilliz said:
    To me it just gets boring very fast. After doing a few quests, exploring, etc it just dosnt have any staying powerfor me. Gets boring real fast imo. I have found having played mmos for over 10 years that I just cant play single player games anymore no matter how good they are. I need multiplayer in everything I play
    Yeah I am in the same boat...its nice to have other people to talk to while youre playing.
    which is why i joined a gaming community,  we may not always play the same games, but there is always someone to talk to, I still love my single player games, but i find that i even play them less with no one on teamspeak 
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  • chillizchilliz Member UncommonPosts: 96
    Its not even about speaking to other people, I just like to see people in the world that I am in. I like to compete agasint them as well. Be it an mmo or an fps or any other game. I need to see people damit.


  • ohioastroohioastro Member UncommonPosts: 534
    Wizardry said:
    Righteous_Rock said:
    The game is just awesome. It works perfectly for my casual style that enjoys randomness , exploration, story, creativity, guns, explosions, and my best friend dogmeat.
    idk about randomness or story or creativity but the rest you got right and pretty much sums up the entire game.
    90+% is just wandering around looking for loot and usually ending up with more useless loot than you need.
    Guns for the most part are just simple boring guns.I would want cool stuff like the Unreal shock Rifle kind of stuff with cool combo attacks.Yeah i know my liking is more sci fi oriented but i just can't fathom any fun out of shooting a pistol or semi automatic sniper rifle.
    This strikes me as really, really unfair.  The legendary weapons are legitimately cool and the crafting system is exceptional.  There are tons of stories embedded in every location - tapes, notes, visual clues.  Every one has a theme and is tied to some pre-war story.  The quest dialogs are unquestionably simplified compared to earlier versions, but there is an enormous amount of story-telling and an incredibly deep world that they've created.  This is not a game with randomly created foes and locations.

    And there are some gut-wrenching twists in the plot and some really quirky, offbeat things that you run into.  I think it's a blast, frankly, and the character customization is very well done.  The difference is that these things become obvious as the game progresses; they don't happen out of the gate.
  • gwei1984gwei1984 Member UncommonPosts: 413
    "As the franchise has grown mature..." means "as we moved it from being a great rpg to a mediocre shooter with some rpg elements." Surely the console generation loves it. But grumpy old myself? Thats not Fallout anymore :(

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  • LynxJSALynxJSA Member RarePosts: 3,334
    gwei1984 said:
    "As the franchise has grown mature..." means "as we moved it from being a great rpg to a mediocre shooter with some rpg elements." Surely the console generation loves it. But grumpy old myself? Thats not Fallout anymore :(
    So odd.  I've been into RPGs for years, and I guess I am just playing it differently. Yeah, there's shooting, but "shooter" is the last thing I would have thought to describe this game. Most of my time has been spent rebuilding the world. Homesteading and town building is something I was hoping we'd get from Fallen Earth and other RPGs, MMO or singleplayer. Outside of Planet Explorers, I haven't seen such a feature. Yeah, the 'survival' games give a nod to it, but it seems that the 'fun' in those games is the ability to enslave and torture. I'm all for villainy but that goes a place that just isn't interesting for me.  

    Fallout 4 is that mix of Skyrim and Planet Explorers that I've been looking for. Never really thought of it as a shooter. 
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  • TorvacTorvac Member UncommonPosts: 135
    a shallow copy of what fallout once was. weak story writing & kill quest, kill quest, kill quest ...
  • TealaTeala Member RarePosts: 7,627
    I dunno, I'm getting bored of it all ready.   It's a good game, but I don't think it is anywhere as good as Fallout 3, and not even close to Skyrim.   Sorry...just my opinion. 
  • Loke666Loke666 Member EpicPosts: 21,441
    Teala said:
    I dunno, I'm getting bored of it all ready.   It's a good game, but I don't think it is anywhere as good as Fallout 3, and not even close to Skyrim.   Sorry...just my opinion. 
    Long time no see, Teala. :) But yeah, the basic game seems less than the earlier games. A good expansion could change that, lets hope they make something really fun to add to the game.
  • PhryPhry Member LegendaryPosts: 11,004
    Loke666 said:
    Teala said:
    I dunno, I'm getting bored of it all ready.   It's a good game, but I don't think it is anywhere as good as Fallout 3, and not even close to Skyrim.   Sorry...just my opinion. 
    Long time no see, Teala. :) But yeah, the basic game seems less than the earlier games. A good expansion could change that, lets hope they make something really fun to add to the game.
    It needs the Skyrim touch, or to be more precise, it needs the modding community to jump on board and mod the game, thats how Skyrim became so successful, how many people after all even did part of the main quest in Skyrim before going off and doing something else entirely for however long, before starting over again with a new character? I don't think many people would consider playing an 'unmodded' Skyrim, and yet the game is still hugely popular, Fallout 4 may well be the same, unmodded, it gets boring fast, but modded, thats a different beast altogether.
    There is also the difference between the player experience of the game, whether they are playing on Console, or on PC, the game does have issues after all, but hopefully this is the last time that Bethesda uses their ageing game engine, surely they can afford to create a new more capable engine now, hopefully one where the physics are not affected by the games framerate, which is not just old, its prehistoric.
  • FdzzaiglFdzzaigl Member UncommonPosts: 2,433
    When I started the game, the first few hours were indeed unimpressive and boring. However, Fallout 4 has been growing a lot better as I put more time in it. Especially story-wise, the first few quests are extremely flat, the later ones get a lot deeper. The same can be said for locations.

    Some cool mods have already been released too. Like the one that allows you to combine more armor parts and the one that returns the classic dialogue (find them on nexus). But the bigger better projects will only get started when the CK is released.

    Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!

  • TealaTeala Member RarePosts: 7,627
    Phry said:
    Loke666 said:
    Teala said:
    I dunno, I'm getting bored of it all ready.   It's a good game, but I don't think it is anywhere as good as Fallout 3, and not even close to Skyrim.   Sorry...just my opinion. 
    Long time no see, Teala. :) But yeah, the basic game seems less than the earlier games. A good expansion could change that, lets hope they make something really fun to add to the game.
    It needs the Skyrim touch, or to be more precise, it needs the modding community to jump on board and mod the game, thats how Skyrim became so successful, how many people after all even did part of the main quest in Skyrim before going off and doing something else entirely for however long, before starting over again with a new character? I don't think many people would consider playing an 'unmodded' Skyrim, and yet the game is still hugely popular, Fallout 4 may well be the same, unmodded, it gets boring fast, but modded, thats a different beast altogether.
    There is also the difference between the player experience of the game, whether they are playing on Console, or on PC, the game does have issues after all, but hopefully this is the last time that Bethesda uses their ageing game engine, surely they can afford to create a new more capable engine now, hopefully one where the physics are not affected by the games framerate, which is not just old, its prehistoric.
    Maybe, if modders can do their magic and add some depth to the game the way people did for Skyrim - hmmm...might be OK after all.   :)
  • ArglebargleArglebargle Member EpicPosts: 3,481

    I learned long ago (Oblivion), not to buy Bethesda games at launch.  I wait til the modders have had time to fix them up.   But no longer a big fan.  They can't even release with decent UI choices....


    I do wonder if they are getting the same 80/20 console/PC split that they got on Skyrim. 

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  • BanyoHDBanyoHD Member UncommonPosts: 32
    Arglebargle said:

    I learned long ago (Oblivion), not to buy Bethesda games at launch.  I wait til the modders have had time to fix them up.   But no longer a big fan.  They can't even release with decent UI choices....


    I do wonder if they are getting the same 80/20 console/PC split that they got on Skyrim. 

    I couldn't agree more. I still think the character models could use some work. They just seem lifeless and slightly out of place at the moment from what I've seen. Bethesda's games usually release with a more console friendly UI. 

    Sales for respective platform would be interesting to see. I do expect a larger quantity of sales on the console versions though like yourself.
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