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Fallout 76 is about the closest we're likely get to a fully-fledged Fallout MMO—given the genre's pretty hard to get into nowadays and, well, it's doing rather well. But there was a time that would've seen a massively multiplayer variant of the wasteland competing with Blizzard's biggest: The ill-fated, legally-tangled Fallout Online.

That's per Matt Firor, in an interview with YouTube channel MinnMax . Firor was the director and founder of ZeniMax, which runs The Elder Scrolls Online, before leaving the studio in 2025 shortly after Microsoft's bloodbath , which saw his brainchild Project Blackbird cancelled.…