Fallout 1st



Fallout 1st is a paid subscription service for Fallout 76. It costs $12.99 for one month and $99.99 for one year. A number of features and items are unlocked upon becoming a Fallout 1st Member. It was first made available with patch 14 on October 23, 2019.

Membership benefits

 * Private worlds - Private worlds can hold up to eight players and all gameplay from the online Adventure mode is the same. If the owner of the private world leaves, it will stay active if another 1st member is on that server, or for 30 minutes if there are no more 1st subscribers on the world.
 * Scrapbox - The scrapbox holds unlimited storage for crafting components, as opposed to storing them in the my stash box during normal gameplay.
 * Survival tent - The survival tent is a deployable fast travel point accessed from the Favorites wheel. When placed, the survival tent provides a miniature base of operations with a stash box, scrapbox, sleeping bag, cooking station and a banjo.
 * Atoms - Fallout 1st members receive 1650 Atoms per month for use in the Atomic Shop.
 * Exclusive cosmetics and rewards - Members also receive a number of exclusive cosmetics with their Fallout 1st purchase. Every month, free new items are added and can be claimed in the Atomic Shop under the Fallout 1st subtab.

Controversy and user reaction
Upon the announcement of Fallout 1st, gaming news sites were quick to point out the service as a source of contention among the user base that was asking for many of the features - private worlds, solo play, and mod support - gated off by the subscription. IGN echoed many of the main criticism and called the service a joke. The antithetical nature of the subscription service was made light by Cass Marshall of Polygon, who called the subscription in harsh conflict with the content of Fallout 76. Further contrasting the conflicting anti-capitalistic messages of corporate greed and the pre-War Automation riots with a "nickel and diming subscription".

The direct user reaction to Fallout 1st was largely negative. The antithetical nature of the subscription was also pointed out by most players, and some players took it upon themselves to grief Fallout 1st subscribers in a class war mimicking the in-universe class struggle. Many of the features of Fallout 1st also didn't work properly upon launch, but patches quickly sorted out these issues. However, many users of Fallout 76 decided to protest the launch of Fallout 1st by creating in-game protest messages or quitting the game entirely. The most notable example of the protest is Fallout First, a domain purchased by David Chapman who created a website to mock the announcement post of Fallout 1st.