You can’t uninstall the Fallout 76 beta until you buy the game

[Kolx]

...They might have went a bit overboard with fixing the game deleting itself bug.

 

[Mindfreak191]

Maybe it's for those who played befire the first beta patch? Cause I uninstalled it withiut a problem through the launcher after the first beta day...

 

[Rigby]

Fallout 76 is truly the gift that keeps on giving, it's going to be a train wreck.

 

[WieDerrickWie]

And when they fix it, it will format your drive.

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The Half-Life 1 Sierra Utilities route, eh?

For anyone that doesn't know about it, the original Half-Life used Sierra Utilities to install/uninstall, and when you uninstalled it would delete everything from the root directory. If you never changed the path of the install it would be fine (like Program Files>Sierra>Half-Life) however if you changed it to lets say just have the Half-Life folder in the Program Files folder, it would delete every single file in Program Files.
I had this issue happen first hand way back when.

 

[leng jai]

Why does every Fallout 76 thread title read like satire?

 

[Mass Effect]

Thank goodness for all this quality Competition™ that Steam is getting.

 

[Rocketjay]

This is just like Pokemon Let's Go, the more news we hear about it, the more we hate it.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

man Activision must be pissed they didn't think of this as a feature

 

[Menome]

The Half-Life 1 Sierra Utilities route, eh?

For anyone that doesn't know about it, the original Half-Life used Sierra Utilities to install/uninstall, and when you uninstalled it would delete everything from the root directory. If you never changed the path of the install it would be fine (like Program Files>Sierra>Half-Life) however if you changed it to lets say just have the Half-Life folder in the Program Files folder, it would delete every single file in Program Files.
I had this issue happen first hand way back when.

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I lost my entire /Games folder because of this. 200 hours of Baldurs Gate II, gone. 2 years of my Diablo II Necromancer, gone.

Fuck you, Sierra Utilities.

 

[Deleted member 27751]

This is just like Pokemon Let's Go, the more news we hear about it, the more we hate it.

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No, not at all. Resetera has had a hate boner on pokemon let's go since announcement because it isn't hardcore cool sick bra enough. Can't be having my hardcore title watered down filthy peasants.

We knew 76 was not going to be good when they announced the beta at E3 then didn't give a date. Then it got closer to launch and they say "hey here it is 3 weeks from release expect bugs lol because Bethesda!"

 

[Prototype Viktor]

and still move millions of copies....

The implication of this is more sinister than the reality.

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this is the Freddy Got Fingered of video games. just seeing what they could get away with and still be successful