BruceVC
Magister
Let's hope the list of those shitcanned for this flop is equally diverse.
Except it hasn't been a flop around what matters, sales figures and projected sales figures. So no ones getting the boot?
https://insider-gaming.com/bethesda-expected-to-make-almost-1-billion-on-starfield/#:~:text=According to documents leaked as,$215 Million in year two.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/starfield-2023-reflection-success-and-failures/#:~:text=Starfield ends 2023 as a massive commercial success, topping the,after a relatively disastrous year.
Im going to play it in the next 6-8 months. It should have the right mods and Loverlabs enhancements by that time![]()
Microsoft controls the information flow of Game Pass. The first article is projected numbers and speculation written in September of 2023. The second article is a bit more nuanced. It reads more like an opinion piece. The reference the article uses to judge Starfields metric for success, was an article written by the very same publisher, in September of 2023 as well.
The only real tangible metric is Steam. The game certainly sold well in that first month. But it fell quickly in both sales and concurrent players.
Using common sense, I believe Starfield did not meet the expectations of Bethesda/Microsoft. I think they wanted another Skyrim success story. They wanted the consistent sales and concurrent players that BG3 attained. What they were met with was an initial surge of people who tried the game on Game Pass or bought the game on Steam, realized it was a not very fun game, and stopped playing. The game is desgined for long term player engagement. From the abudance of exploration, very long winded npc's, the new game plus mechanic. I don't believe this is reception they wanted for Starfield.
Well we will see the accurate sales number after 1 year which is in September. Because the first link is about projected sales and the target for year 1 is $600 million. So we need to wait and see if they met that sales target
It doesn't bother me personally what the sales numbers are, Im still going to play it just heavily modded