Fallout 76? Buy a game. Get shipped a box. Open the box to find another box. Open that box to find a code. Go to website. Create account. Prove to website that I am not a robot by identifying photos that have cars in them. Confirm account via email. Enter code. Download installer. Run installer. Accept legal terms. Installer downloads another installer. Click past advertisement. Click install button. Accept legal terms. Find out you don't have enough hard drive space. Make room. Click different install button. Find out installer will download 47.94 GB, using up 1/3 of monthly bandwidth allowance. Wait 13 hours.
Still in the waiting part, actually.
Go to Amazon and post 1-star review.
Come back to Amazon review to point out that, after 2 hours, I now have over 23 hours to wait for the download. Please see the screenshot.
I finally go the game downloaded and installed. Then I loaded it up and couldn't connect to the server. I quit and restarted, and I could connect to the server, but the graphics stuttered ever so badly. Then I downloaded updated drivers. Then I had to make a login and verify my email. Then I had to add the game directory so the optimizations would load. I will now close everything on the computer and restart.
What my friend pointed out to me is that THIS IS ACTUALLY THE GAME! All that Fallout vault dweller stuff is just a tease. The game is all about installing the game!
UPDATE! So I've actually finally managed to install and run the game. I even played it! And... well... hold on. The server disconnected. It's back! No, disconnected. Pardon me while I manage my junk inventory. I can't fast travel and I can't run. I can either drop all this stuff or spend an hour walking. At least the terrain is pretty. Oops, a level 40 monster killed me. Hey, the server dropped again. It's back! No, it isn't. Oh look, another desk fan. I better drink something. I better eat something. I better uninstall this game.
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