🚨 BREAKING DOOM: Starfield BLEEDS 99% PLAYERS – Now Fallout 76 SHUT DOWN INCOMING as Bethesda’s EMPIRE CRUMBLES! 😱 From 330K peak to pathetic 4K ghosts… FO76 post-TV flop TANKING hard! Devs SILENT, Xbox DYING… WON’T BELIEVE the charts PROVING total COLLAPSE! 💀 Fans RAGING, shutdown whispers LOUD… Click for the END of an ERA!
As 2026 dawns, Bethesda Game Studios grapples with the fallout from Starfield’s catastrophic retention nosedive, with viral YouTuber Qwazar77 prophesying the death of Fallout 76 in a rant amassing nearly 7,000 views since January 2. “Starfield lost 97% of its players in six months… Fallout 76 is going to get shut down soon,” the creator blasts, spotlighting Steam charts where the 2023 space RPG clings to under 5,000 concurrent players – a 99% evaporation from launch peaks – while the online wasteland shooter teeters post-TV show highs.
Fallout 76 launched November 2018 to infamy: Empty servers, no NPCs, canvas bag scandals, and review bombs yielding a dismal 52 Metacritic. Bethesda yanked it offline days post-release for fixes, hemorrhaging trust. Revived via “Wastelanders” (2020) adding humans and quests, it stabilized. The April 2024 Amazon TV adaptation – a smash hit – catapulted concurrent players to an all-time 73,368 on Steam, outpacing rivals. Yet, hype faded: By January 2026, averages hover 17,000-21,000 live, 24-hour peaks 23,000, a steep drop from TV-fueled frenzy.
Starfield, Bethesda’s $1.5B+ bet on sci-fi Skyrim, debuted September 2023 with 330,723 peak concurrents – eclipsing Skyrim’s record. Hailed for Creation Engine 2 vistas, it stumbled: Repetitive planets, shallow quests, loading screens galore. Shattered Space DLC (September 2024) review-bombed to Mixed Steam status. Now? 4,480 live, 6,102 24-hour peak – dwarfed by 2011’s Skyrim (30,000+). Bethesda claims 15 million total players via Game Pass, but critics sneer: “Abandonware.”
Game
Launch Peak (Steam)
Current (Jan 6, 2026)
24h Peak
All-Time Peak
Post-Launch Drop
Starfield (2023)
330,723
4,480
6,102
330,723
98.6%
Fallout 76 (2018)
~20,000
17,233
22,936
73,368 (2024 TV)
76% from TV peak
Skyrim SE (2016)
34,110
~30,000+
N/A
41,276
Stable/Growing
Fallout 4 (2015)
47,300
15,000+
N/A
72,969 (2024 TV)
Resurgent
Qwazar77 ties threads: “Bethesda has nothing… completely washed up.” Starfield’s gore removal, AI reliance flops, Emil Pagliarulo’s “radiant quests” haunt. FO76? “Desperate” players cling, but servers unprofitable sans peaks. Recent maintenance – January 1 outage, January 21 raid fixes – fuels speculation.
Bethesda teases 2026: “New content and systems,” bounty/fishing expansions via Dev_Direct hints. Roadmap calendars events, PTS previews. Yet silence on declines irks. Xbox head Phil Spencer mum; Game Pass blamed for “free” play diluting revenue. Broader woes: Avowed flopped, Indiana Jones shutdown, Perfect Dark stalled. Microsoft layoffs slashed Bethesda ranks post-Activision buyout.
X buzzes #Fallout76Dead faintly; Reddit frets “artificial inflation” post-TV. Fans split: Diehards praise seasons, Atomic Shop; quitters decry grind, bugs. “If Starfield tanks, FO76 next,” one laments. Preservationists eye Anthem’s January 12 demise – no offline, total erasure.
Defenders: FO76 profitable, 10M+ monthly actives claimed pre-TV. TV Season 2 (2026) could revive? Todd Howard eyes Fallout 5 post-ES6, but “lessons learned” vague. Critics: Multiplayer pivot failed; single-player legacy (Skyrim 60M+, FO4 30M+) sustains.
As Appalachia empties, Starfield orbits oblivion, Bethesda’s pivot haunts. Revive via Fallout 5 multiplayer? Or shutter like Anthem? Charts whisper end; devs bet updates. In post-apoc gaming, numbers don’t lie – wasteland awaits verdict.
