It is quite frustrating that they allowed the game to go ahead, knowing the brand damage it could cause. At the very least they should have delayed it by a year to add the content fans expect from a Fallout game.That was imo a huge management mistake. Bethesda: so we have this BattleCry team who just fucked up the BattleCry game, what to do with them? Oh, let's reward them by giving them another project to butcher, let's say... which one... yeah, Fallout. And let's promote them to being a part of BGS while we're at it, goodness knows BGS is too small nowadays.
If BattleCry is canceled for lack of quality, so should 76.
However...
Seeing how well ZOS has turned ESO around, which was also revealed and launched in a state absolutely no-one wanted (they were shocked to hear players wanted to play an Elder Scrolls game in first person for example, and had to rush to add that in as an option) gives me hope for 76. It will take at least another year, but there's a possibility this game will be enjoyable one day. The problem with that is... we're right at the end of a console generation. How many people will want to commit to a last gen GaaS title when there will no doubt be a big surge of next gen GaaS titles competing to be the next big thing for the gen ahead? Anthem has exactly the same problem.
Literally what I concluded in the same post you quoted and then cut =Pnot big a mystery, it's a next gen game. no matter how far along it is it's not showing before ps5/nextbox's formal announcement
So far E3 as a whole has been fairly bad. Studios are just showing up to show off the dregs of what they have the left for the current gen. No-one is really ready to show off next gen games. I'm still holding out hope for Ubisoft though. We all know Watch Dogs didn't turn out so great in the end, but I'll never forget the reveal trailer for that game - a gameplay demo of a next gen game when most people were still showing exclusively 360 and PS3 games. I'd love to see something similar from them this year.