Is it literally private server hosting though? It sounds more like an invite only lobby to me, the same way you have been able to play on countless other games before it. 

The real news here is the unlimited crafting storage. Storage space has been one of THE biggest complaints in 76. Paying for unlimited storage is likely to peeve a few people. 

I’m really starting to wonder if the whole point of this game was for Bethesda to be able to try out whatever random bullshit they could come up with. Ideas like this are too insane to implement in pretty much any other game but because this one was deemed terrible at the very beginning they can just use it as a weird…

Starting a book more or less with a gigantic ice wall and some undeads can pretty much set a tone.