[News] Video games have already predicted the war between Twitter users because of the blue 'check': Bethesda was ahead of Elon Musk with a very controversial decision in Fallout 76

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When Elon Musk bought Twitter, many were already wary of the direction the platform could take, but things got even worse as the changes proposed by the South African millionaire were coming. One of the most controversial was the introduction of Twitter Blue. Users did not like the subscription of about eight euros a month, especially now that the old accounts verified due to their relevance or reliability have lost the mythical blue 'check'. This has led to a rare backlash where some users go after and attack those who have paid for the service with memes. A story that we fans of video games have already experienced.

Fallout 76 predicted what would happen on Twitter
Fallout 76 is now a much more solid game. It has undergone many changes over the years and added an absurd amount of content. However, when it was launched it was a scandal like few others. Bethesda had had a few skids with the community, but it was a company that had earned a fair reputation for making good video games. This was not the case with the initial version of its title as a service, which barely received a five from the press on its launch date. You have to be self-critical and, although we try to improve, you already know how rare it is to find video games that are barely capable of exceeding enough in the press releases.

The point is that the company, before even being close to ending the improvements to the game, added a new monetization system. It was a monthly subscription called Fallout 1st that allowed access to certain blocked features of the game and also exclusive icons or cosmetics. The point is that the players, each time they made use of one of the elements of this paid subscription service, were easy to identify. Things are looking more like Twitter from here on since the differentiating elements are still a symbol of status and belonging not very different from the aforementioned blue 'check'.

 

 

What happened in Fallout 76 is that some players who did not pay for the premium subscription began to hunt down those who did have this service. They tried to complicate their lives through 'griefing'. The Bethesda game already had some systems at that time to minimize the damage that annoying behavior from other members of the community can cause, but you should never underestimate the ingenuity of the human being to annoy others. In one of the most curious cases, a user assured that "between five and seven people dressed as bears" beat up his character.

Just as not everyone ridicules Twitter Blue subscribers, Fallout 76's subscriber-bashing episodes weren't widespread. However, there were very real incidents. Players who already had fun harassing other community members have shifted their focus (traditionally, low-level ones are hunted down) to focus on subscribers. There were also multiple people who claimed that his character was always beaten by non-subscribers every time he used an exclusive item. "Most of the time that a subscriber activates the exclusive emoticon, they get hit, get shot, or receive a disapproving emoji in return," the community explained in a report by the French media Jeux de Video.

 

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