Da Pete Hines og andre Bethesda-medarbejdere skulle sælge ideen om Fallout 76 til fans verden over sidste år, så slog de fast at de aldrig ville bevæge sig udover kosmetiske mikrotransaktioner. Det har de dog nu gjort ved at introducere Repair Kits, som man kan købe med rigtige penge, og som gør at du ikke behøver at bruge ressourcer på at reparere dit bedste grej.
Dette er blevet beskyldt for ret bogstavelig talt at være pay-to-win, da ens grejs gradvise nedslidning er en af de primære bekymringer spilleren står overfor. Bethesda mener dog ikke det er tilfældet. I et interview med PC Gamer fortøller Jeff Gardiner, at disse Kits bare er en "convenience".
"We believed the repair kits were a convenience item for people who didn't want to grind for adhesive and other things, and it was just a way for them to basically shortcut game systems, definitely not pay-to-win."
"I will argue [with] anybody that [repair kits] makes you win at the game. First of all, you're not really competing with one another, except for in PvP mode. We have all the information, how often people repair, what they repair, and again, you can repair in the game, it's simply just a strict convenience thing. That's my take on repair kits."
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