Everything has an End. But also a new Beginning. To the best community in gaming, Fallout For Hope, as you've known it, is coming to an end. Our final day is July 25th. And while this may surprise or shock you, keep reading...because this journey just became something so much more, and a new chapter awaits us. This journey started not with a step on a road, but a moment of humanity, a meaningful gesture, and a single "what if" in response to people in the #Fallout76 community who needed our help. And help we did. Hope was given, a single life changed. In December of 2020, when the world felt dark and disconnected a few of us logged in not to fight, but to do something for someone else. We chose the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital whose holidays were being spent far from home. Hundreds of you, the world over, answered the call. Over $109,000 was raised in a single week. “What if?” are two of the most powerful words in any language. They are the fertile soil from which all things grow. The first shoots of something none of us could have imagined broke the surface. One year rolled into another, and another. Six years on, look at what you all grew, what this community achieved: $1.35 million, not just for one cause, but many: @StJude, @alzassociation, @American_Heart, @projecthopeorg, @MakeAWishIntl. Trees in inner cities, and real help for real families on the ground from natural disasters in Texas to crushing poverty in Appalachia. Over 900 streamers, creators, and community leaders, in 87 countries found it within themselves to do what the pessimist deems a rose-tinted fantasy – you chose to give. To sacrifice, to put others first. Your time, your talent, your hearts. There are people alive today, people born tomorrow, faces you will never greet and voices you may never hear who were touched by that choice, They represent the great many whose future you shaped. That is not a small thing. That is everything. That is the meaning of life. So why step away now? Not because anything went wrong, but because something went so very right. Time changes everything it touches. And sometimes… it means leaving home. For six years, this has been home. But we've outgrown the ground beneath us, ground that was graciously granted in name. We’ve reached a fork in the road where to continue to do this means its time to do it bigger, it means its time to do it right. To build a home that is truly, transparently, wholly our own. What has been built quietly in the background is, to coin a phrase from the Fallout universe: a home of tomorrow. Walking through the door isn’t the end of the story. It's the bravest page in it. And the faces that await behind it will be more than familiar to you. So before we go, we're going to do the impossible one last time, exactly the way we started: together, one community, in one voice and side by side with a friend, a mentor and someone who knows full heart the power this community wields when we almost lost him: @WesJohnsonVoice. Now through July 25th we cordially invite you to bring hope to the darkest of places one last time as we started: standing with the Alzheimer’s Association in memory of those we lost to this terrible disease and in solidarity of people we know who will face it yet. On our final day, live from the main stage at @GCXEvent myself, Wes, and some familiar faces are going to show you what comes next...the next chapter, a longer road and at the end of it a horizon without limit. To every one of you who volunteered, logged in, donated, watched, reshared, gave away your own loot, streamed for hours, or simply chose to help a stranger…I cannot find the words adequate enough to thank you, much less praise you. All of this was only possible because of all of you. Fallout at its best, narratively, figuratively has always asked us one pervasive question. With limited time, and an open road before you, and so, so many obstacles… who would you choose to be? Let’s not just play through that choice. Let’s show the world what we can be. Sign up for our final #FalloutForHope Fundraiser below. 👇 One last time...for Wes. I hope to see you all in the Wasteland. 🌅 #FalloutForHope #FalloutCommunity #Fallout #Fallout2 #Fallout3 #Fallout4 #Fallout76 #FalloutTV #charity

Tears and typing incoming... 😭 $1 MILLION passed with @Twitch's donation. 6 years ago, the Fallout community rallied together when @medic_wasteland and @DrCJMartin needed desperate and immediate help. From those acts, that kindness and taking care of our own, a small pool of passionate #Fallout76 players gathered to fundraise for @StJude and in one week raised over $109k. That week became a homecoming, a mission, a cause, and now comprises of a team of now 850+ creators, streamers, cosplayers, artists, writers, podcasters, prop builders and post apocalyptic larpers from 86 countries. I've often wondered what it is about Fallout that distinctly created such a uniquely giving community, one that acts more like a family (in all its complexities) than just another gaming fandom. So, why Fallout? I think because all of us grew up living in a world at the end. We all had a choice, we all walked a road, we fell in love with characters, and wastelands and through our choices shaped the world. The fact that NOW you all have done that for people you'll never meet is nothing short of remarkable. Thank you. All of you - not just for you time, talent, and donations, but for knowing that hope and empathy are choices - powerful currency in a cynical world. Thank you to every one of our staff, every team member who shows up year after year. Much love to @StJude @alzassociation and @GCXEvent for their support and having the best teams in charity. Love to @WesJohnsonVoice and @DCDeacon who believed in and supported us from day #1. Thank you to everyone at @BethesdaStudios and the @Fallout team for giving us the sandboxes to bring a world and generations of gamers together to do good in the world. War. War Never Changes. But Hope? Hope Can Save a Life. Here's to the next chapter. - Ken