Fallout 76 players have started getting banned from playing the game due to using mods. While it was always clear that modding would be a tricky subject in a multiplayer-only experience, few had hoped that Bethesda would start kicking people out before introducing private servers.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
Lol way to ban the few people who actually stuck with it.
I would understand if it was cheating, but it says many instances are resolution mods and interface fix mods resulting in the bans.
That's garbage.
Wait. Mr. Howard made the game shitty so the modders would have an easier time modding the game, but now they are banning modders for doing just that? which one bought Bethesda - EA or Activision?
What about the people who use mods to fix the game? Oh wait that’s considered cheating because they would have an unfair advantage over the ones who don’t use mods.
:p
Given that payers modding/fixing their games is something they've pretty made standard this is a bit surprising.
Yet by the MMO nature of game this really shouldn't come as a surprise.
In any other case I would agree with a ban for using mods in an online game. With Fallout 76 and the numerous shenanigans that have followed? NO!
The nerve of Bethesda calling people out as cheaters when practically every single aspect of this game is one massive scam is hard to believe. From the flipped assets that comprise the overwhelming bulk of the game to the blatant lies used to market the game, cheating! The Atomic Shop selling items that were free in Fallout 4? Cheating! The entire Power Armor Edition fiasco? Cheating!
Who would have thought that in the space of a few short months, the years of goodwill built up by this studio would evaporate?