Bethesda has come out to definitively state that Fallout 76 isn’t about to turn into a free-to-play game, following rumors that suggested this might be case.Clearly, such speculation – based on reported shortages of stock of physical copies of game at an Australian retailer – was always on very dodgy grounds.

Because while Fallout 76 has certainly got off to a shaky start – prompting Bethesda to offer a freebie as part of a placation effort to those who bought game last year – matters certainly haven’t got that bad, that quickly.At any rate, following a post on Twitter in which a gamer complained that if it was going free-to-play, they would want a refund, Bethesda replied to say there is no truth to this speculation. So there you have it.

Fallout 76 has courted controversy since it first launched last November, to largely lukewarm reviews – our first impressions took game to task for lacking personality that characterizes franchise.It was also criticized for being buggy, easy to hack on PC – an accusation Bethesda subsequently denied – and game’s refund policy came under fire, too.So it’s perhaps not surprising that people are taking time to fan any flames pertaining to MMO.That said, if you browse many replies to above comment on Twitter, you’ll find that as well as haters, there are also folks now defending game, including original poster who observed: “It’s a great game imo once you get rid of notion of it being FO4 online.”Via PC Gamer