Pete Hines says Fallout 76 will last "forever"

Metro spoke with Hines, Vice President of Global Marketing and Communications at Bethesda, and asked him about the new Fall game, especially on how long developers have planned to keep it in the game as a service environment in which the game seems to fall. Hines responded unironically by saying "forever" before explaining why he was not joking about the calendar and referring to other long-standing hits like Bethesda. Skyrim.

"I'm not ironic. As always, "Hines reiterated to Metro." Because other people said, "Is your schedule two or five years old?" And I said, "Well, they're still playing Morrowind and you're going online and see how many people are playing at Fallout 4 and Skyrim, these games have been out for four or seven years and there are literally hundreds of thousands of people playing these games every day, every month. "

Hines position on Fallout 76 last forever may seem daring, but it's not so incredible when you consider Skyrim as an example of the longevity of Bethesda games. As he pointed out, people still play Skyrim Through various versions on various platforms, the versions that he said that Bethesda will stop publishing once people stop buying them. Beyond Skyrim and on Fallout 76Bethesda thinks that the "chronology of the game is in perpetuity".

As for the content Fallout 76 Hines says Bethesda does not yet know what he will look like. He said that Bethesda is considering how players react to the content of Fallout 76 and referenced Fallout 3 & # 39; s remove DLC as an example of how Bethesda will adapt to the demands and concerns of gamers.

"The big consumer reaction to the launch of this game was that they were all upset that they had an end. And we were like: "All the previous games had an end! We thought we were loyal to what this franchise is … "But they did not want an end and we had some DLC in progress, but the third one we did was," Well, we need to get it done. a DLC that removes the end of the game and allows you to continue. 76 will be like that. We have ideas for this and that, but let's see what more people want. Let's see what they answer and support that. "

Fallout 76 will be released on November 14 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.