[gnarbarian]

It's not across the board. Red dead redemption 2 is a huge hit. The big launches which are failing and getting lots of press (fallout 76, and battlefield V) are doing so because of anticonsumer practices. In the case of fallout 76, the game is so buggy nobody wants to play it. Plus, launching fallout 4 after people were wrapping up Witcher 3 really put things into perspective as to how far behind Bethesda is compared to CD project red. Side by side fallout 4 was garbage.

As for Battlefield V. I've been a die-hard battlefield fan since BF 1942, I played the BFV demo and it proved to me that they are continuing to move backwards. Pay to win microtransactions and even less destructible environments show that they are dead set on destroying the mechanics which make battlefield fun and alienating their core customers. Perhaps they are doing this in a misguided attempt to capture some of the fortnite/call of duty market but instead they have sacrificed their core customers in an attempt to entice people away from games they are perfectly happy with. Then they top it off by sanctimoniously insulting their customers and telling us not to buy it if we don't like their changes.

[FooHentai]

>In the case of fallout 76, the game is so buggy nobody wants to play it.

Buggy, bland, and hamstrung by silly design decisions:

- No non-player characters transformed into 'we'll use robots to awkwardly get around our self-imposed rule'

- 'Let's use our time-stopping VATS system in a multiplayer environment where you can't pause time, I'm sure that will work well'