Subscription for Private Server?

[|ASTRO| bainkowalski]

[lordoftheapes79]

Obviously. Servers cost money to host, you want them to give it to you for free?

[|ASTRO| bainkowalski]

Originally posted by lordoftheapes79:

Obviously. Servers cost money to host, you want them to give it to you for free?

Most games do for free.... I knew there would be someone to white knight and justify a huge company doing it lmao

[shadejh]

Just a choice, the community on this game is very friendly, no need to use a private server for me. After it's just a personnal choice.

[Papa john]

Originally posted by lordoftheapes79:

Obviously. Servers cost money to host, you want them to give it to you for free?

indie games give you the option to host private servers, why can't a multi trillion dollar company like microsoft

[Lord Rambo]

Yes. Pay up.

[|ASTRO| bainkowalski]

Originally posted by Lord Rambo:

Yes. Pay up.

Nah, game sucks anyway. lol

[Starlight]

Originally posted by BainKowalski:

Originally posted by Lord Rambo:

Yes. Pay up.

Nah, game sucks anyway. lol

Nah, it's good

[Sirius]

Originally posted by BainKowalski:

Originally posted by Lord Rambo:

Yes. Pay up.

Nah, game sucks anyway. lol

So what do you even try to achieve here?

[shadejh]

Originally posted by BainKowalski:

Originally posted by Lord Rambo:

Yes. Pay up.

Nah, game sucks anyway. lol

So you're just trolling in fact.
Don't play then, find something else.

[Vinnolo]

Originally posted by reimu:

Originally posted by lordoftheapes79:

Obviously. Servers cost money to host, you want them to give it to you for free?

indie games give you the option to host private servers, why can't a multi trillion dollar company like microsoft

there is a big difference between hosting a client side server of a simple indie game and a big game with almost everything being tied server side calculations which all servers must be synced to work, i doubt your average fo76 player could even host a fo76 server and play at the same time with decent framerate

[Wack-A-Mole MLRS]

I want I want I want-gotta have need it gotta have I want I want Trolling Trolling Trolling

[|ASTRO| bainkowalski]

Not trolling, just posting an opinion on how I think its stupid to pay a subscription to play co op... its Steam Discussions so I expected people to defend the company, same people who said not to worry about DLC or buying games digitally at a full price and not really owning it, real big brain move. My solution is to not play nbd there will be simps to give their money besides me life goes on. Its called a discussion... on steam discussions...

[ah_puch]

Originally posted by BainKowalski:

Not trolling, just posting an opinion on how I think its stupid to pay a subscription to play co op... its Steam Discussions so I expected people to defend the company, same people who said not to worry about DLC or buying games digitally at a full price and not really owning it, real big brain move. My solution is to not play nbd there will be simps to give their money besides me life goes on. Its called a discussion... on steam discussions...

When you see the word "online" in a description, first you gotta realize is that the sunk-cost fallacy is automatically tied into it. These people will defend high and low to justify paying for anything because they themselves have sunk so much time and money into it.

It applies to every game with transactions but it's especially dangerous in mmos. The offerings of Fallout 76 for the price is simply silly. Paying for ammo boxes, private servers, skins. Everyone leaving after seeing the first paywall on something that should have been free in the first place.

Fallout 4 is the far superior Fallout experience. Fallout 76 constantly gets updates but barely gets 30% of Fallout 4's players

[Sirius]

Originally posted by BainKowalski:

Not trolling, just posting an opinion on how I think its stupid to pay a subscription to play co op... its Steam Discussions so I expected people to defend the company, same people who said not to worry about DLC or buying games digitally at a full price and not really owning it, real big brain move. My solution is to not play nbd there will be simps to give their money besides me life goes on. Its called a discussion... on steam discussions...

This is also the Steam forums so people throwing snarky one liners into a forum and call that "opinion" also exist.
And then, regardless of tone and content of replies, go into victim mode and start insulting everyone.

Well done.

[Roland]

Originally posted by BainKowalski:

Originally posted by lordoftheapes79:

Obviously. Servers cost money to host, you want them to give it to you for free?

Most games do for free.... I knew there would be someone to white knight and justify a huge company doing it lmao

It seems like you are missing the obvious, in that most games make YOU figure out the hosting of those private server and the maintenance of the hardware said servers is hosted on and the electricity that powers said servers.

There's also the fact that outside of sandbox servers your progress is shared with public servers and in order to keep that balanced they have to host said data. There's no good feasible way to give us private hosting and shared progression that doesn't introduce cheating and save data manipulation. (See GTA's cheater problem, or how NMS is wrecked by a Save Editor for examples of how their attempts failed)

I like hosting on my own metal and usually have a spare laptop lying around for this purpose, and have been hosting dedicated and non-dedicated servers since UT99, but it's impractical here.
The good news is that I'd bet my left testicle that when the game inevitably shuts down one day, private servers will pop up almost immediately and we can all create our own perfect micro-niche wastelands.