Fallout 76 Leads To Surge Of Interest In The State Of West Virginia
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West Virginia is not just a fantastical dystopian hellscape depicted in the
trailer for Fallout 76. It’s a real place in the real dystopian nation of
America! Thanks to Fallout 76, the state is now seeing interest from actual
tourists.
The new online survival extension of Bethesda’s wasteland-roaming
mega-series is set in West Virginia. Ever since the game’s trailer debuted
late last month, people have been planning their post-apocalyptic getaways.
Case in point: West-Virginia tourism websites like WVExplorer.com have seen a
surge of traffic.
“Typically we had been getting around 2,000 people a day,” the site’s
publisher, David Sibray, told West Virginia news channel WCHS. “Now we’ve
been up to around 30,000 people a day.”
Employees of Camden Park, an amusement park featured in the Fallout 76
trailer, have also reported an upswing in interest. “We’ve gotten calls in
the office about people wanting to buy T-shirts from here just because of the
game,” Camden Park employee Autumn Smithers said to WCHS.
Will tourism follow? It remains to be seen, but residents are hopeful. “This
is kind of a first, that we have been in a video game, and that will impact
us like this,” Camden Park Ride Supervisor Shawn Wellman said. “We’ve
never had this kind of national publicity, so we are waiting to see what
happens.”
And while this metric is far from precise, it’s also worth noting that the
YouTube video for “Take Me Home, Country Roads”—the West Virginia anthem
featured in Fallout 76's trailer—has basically become a Fallout 76 message
board.
“If I see one more god damn Fallout joke,” reads one of the most upvoted
comments on the video.
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西維吉尼亞州是Fallout 76中設定的故事發生地....
在Fallout 76在E3公開後....
在西維吉尼亞州掀起了觀光熱。
像是它的觀光網站 WVExplorer.com 本來每日流量只有2,000，現在變成了30,000。
而在Fallout 76中有出現的 Camden Park 遊樂園也接到許多詢問電話，想要購買T恤等各
種紀念品。
現在西維吉尼亞州的人還在消化這種情況....
另外一提，Fallout 76宣傳片中的歌 Take Me Home, Country Roads，即為西維吉尼亞州
的州歌。