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Jeremy Peel

How Bethesda turned the radioactive lemon that was Fallout 76 into endless lemonade: 'It taught me a lot, as pain does'

How Fallout 76 was turned around.

When Fallout 76 was hated, Jeff Gardiner—the man responsible for eventually turning it around—felt more than a little déjà vu.

"It reminded me a lot of Fallout 3," he says. "We made a decision that was controversial, and we thought it was for the best of the game. We got buy-in from everyone, we executed on it. It proved to be the incorrect decision."

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