Fallout 1st is the premium membership subscription to Fallout 76, giving players access to private adventures, custom worlds, the scrap box, monthly Fallout 76 atoms, season passes, and various other features, so you'd think Bethesda would want everyone to have access to that paid feature. However, despite only being reliably available in Japan since April 2024, Fallout 76 players are no longer able to sign up or renew the service on the Xbox/Microsoft Store version of the game.
What's weird about this situation with Fallout 1st's subscriptions is that it only applies to the Xbox/Microsoft Store version of Fallout 76. Japanese players on PC (via Steam), PlayStation 4, or PlayStation 5 have not been impacted by this issue. In other words, a first-party service for a first-party game on a first-party console is not working properly, but it is for that party's competitors. Sure, that doesn't fully account for Bethesda, but optics-wise, that's exactly what it's like: it works for competitors. Unfortunately, given the history of the service in Japan, it doesn't seem likely to return anytime soon.
Fallout 1st was not reliably available on the Japanese Xbox Store until April 2024. Before then,...
