Which is not something I’m going to do personally, but the information may benefit someone. I’m still torn between getting it on Steam or just Game Pass.

I can’t seem to find whether it will be Play Anywhere.

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    Wait. The standard edition is 120 dollars?! What the actual fuck?!

    Edit: that’s in AUD, apparently.

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    Why would you want early access for what will likely be a buggy launch? Better to wait a month or so and at least play after the launch issues.

    Even good launches like TOTK benefitted from waiting with the performance patches.

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      Fallout 4’s launch was actually pretty stable, with exception of Playstation though, but that’s not an issue now, is it?

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        I bought it on launch and I really don’t remember having any issues. I’m always surprised it has such a bad rep.

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          Always important to remember that lots of opinions people are posting online are just things they read somewhere and are repeating.

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      It’s Bethesda. It’ll never not be buggy.

      I’ve no plans to get the game, but maybe I’ll check it out in three to five years when modders have fixed the game and added some real content.

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        I imagine it’ll be good in a few months.

        Bethesda gets a lot of criticism for buggy launches, but all huge games are just as bad really. I hit a game-breaking bug in Baldur’s Gate 2 recently and had to enable cheats and use the console to even continue. And Cyberpunk also had loads of experience-ruining bugs like enemies seeing through walls repeatedly.

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        By then we might even have a McDonald’s on every planet in the game. They did say they obsess over the food 😂

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      I agree, its such a time-sink of a game that I don’t mind waiting for a good experience from the start.

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    Hmm, I don’t have vacations until the 11th so other than being able to get it before the weekend, having it 5 days earlier isn’t that big a deal.

    Being able to get the story expansion at presumably a cheaper price is worth it though, as I’m guessing they won’t add this to Game Pass?

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      Back when they expanded to Game Pass Ultimate it used to include DLC, it no longer appears to include Ultimate Editions that it used to, it is very unlikely to include any DLC at all.

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        Skyrim has all the DLC, but only the Special Edition not the Anniversary Edition. Fallout 4 does not have the DLC. So I expect it won’t have the DLC.

        I’d be tempted just to buy the game itself to have it separate from Game Pass but realistically as long as I have my Xbox I’ll probably keep my Game Pass subscription and $60 is a lot less than $170 haha…

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        I mean the future Story Pack expansion that is mentioned in the Deluxe Edition. Given they are already selling it, it doesn’t seem so speculative.

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          Speculations are:
          Is the game good?
          Is the game playable?
          Is the game gonna be delayed?
          Is the dlc actually gonna come?
          When? Delayed?
          At what price?
          What scope will it have?
          Will it be worth it?
          Will the story be good enough that you want more of it?

          It seems incredibly silly to me to pre purchase a game that you can play at no additional cost anyway if you have GP solely on the hypothesis of maybe saving money on a dlc that will most likely cost significantly less than the base game.

          You’ll save money on the dlc you know next to nothing about by paying a lot more on the base game.

          Its your money but the idea is absurd to me.

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    I’m getting it on Steam just for the modding capabilities! I like that Bethesda has been good about getting mods onto the Game Pass version of F4 and Skyrim, but those aren’t as extensive as the Steam versions.