According to Steamcharts, Starfield is completely losing out to Baldur's Gate 3.

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Here's the number of current players and peak all-time players for both games.

SF: https://steamcharts.com/app/1716740
BG3: https://steamcharts.com/app/1086940

BG3 has nearly 100K more current players (40% higher) than SF does, and we are talking about a game here that was released more than a month ago. BD3's peak was 800k players whereas Starfield only has a peak of 260k players. Do note a game's peak is usually within a week of its release.

As you can see, Bethesda isnt doing too well here. However, one factor to consider is that SF is also on Gamepass so the stats here may not be fully accurate. However, even under the assumption Gamepass players were equal to Steam players count, there's no way SF's peak player count could have ever surpassed BD3 at all. 800k vs 260k is absolutely massive in differential scale

[zpc]

*yawn* Pretty late to the party, aren't we? 2 things: there is a world outside of Steam and freeloaders exist (Gamepass). Meanwhile official figures: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/3824174193413980123/

[Georgion]

Fanboys will tell you Starfield peaked at 1 mil. players and 6 mil. total played copies. What they wont tell you is 75% od those are game pass users who dont have to pay anything extra for the game. From business perspective, Starfield is a disaster compared to BG3.

[Zy Soua]

Who even cares? Oh wait... people, who care about ratings, not playing games

[Witski]

Originally posted by Georgion:

Fanboys will tell you Starfield peaked at 1 mil. players and 6 mil. total played copies. What they wont tell you is 75% od those are game pass users who dont have to pay anything extra for the game. From business perspective, Starfield is a disaster compared to BG3.

The poor random dude know what a financial disaster is while microsoft and bethesda swim in money.
Make sense.

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Originally posted by Georgion:

Fanboys will tell you Starfield peaked at 1 mil. players and 6 mil. total played copies. What they wont tell you is 75% od those are game pass users who dont have to pay anything extra for the game. From business perspective, Starfield is a disaster compared to BG3.

Yeah I cant believe news sites are blindly reporting that. They getting paid by Bethesda to spread BS propaganda?

The most accurate gauge is to exclude out the Xbox players and look at Steam only.
And by that count, SF's player peak is nowhere close to even past Bethesda games like Skyrim and FO4

[McFuzz]

And yet you bought the game OP.

[Eminem]

yah even with the xbox gamepass factored in, am surprised the peak numbers are so low being a triple A title and all.

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Originally posted by Witski:

Originally posted by Georgion:

Fanboys will tell you Starfield peaked at 1 mil. players and 6 mil. total played copies. What they wont tell you is 75% od those are game pass users who dont have to pay anything extra for the game. From business perspective, Starfield is a disaster compared to BG3.

The poor random dude know what a financial disaster is while microsoft and bethesda swim in money.
Make sense.

Bethesda and Microsoft aren't earning a damn cent lmao

Unless they see a significant increase in Xbox purchases and/or Xbox game pass users, the no. of players using gamepass to play SF is utterly negligible.

Read my comment above. Exclude out the outlier variables and look at what matters to make the fair comparison.

[Witski]

Originally posted by reignworld:

Originally posted by Georgion:

Fanboys will tell you Starfield peaked at 1 mil. players and 6 mil. total played copies. What they wont tell you is 75% od those are game pass users who dont have to pay anything extra for the game. From business perspective, Starfield is a disaster compared to BG3.

Yeah I cant believe news sites are blindly reporting that. They getting paid by Bethesda to spread BS propaganda?

The most accurate gauge is to exclude out the Xbox players and look at Steam only.
And by that count, SF's player peak is nowhere close to even past Bethesda games like Skyrim and FO4

And why people should look only at steam to begin with?

[🥇 Xaxoon 🥇]

Yes, yes, you're right. Now the genuine reviews are coming out, not just the bought and fanboy ratings. However, it would be better if we didn't open a new thread every time with the same topic because I think it affects the overview a bit, in my opinion...

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Originally posted by McFuzz:

And yet you bought the game OP.

Yeah, so I could write my negative review that the game so well deserves.
Also I'm still enjoying the game but hardly is it a 9/10 in my book. More like 6-7/10. IGN was right. And their review is ironically prob the most reliable one since IGN is massive enough not to be bribed by game studios

[Witski]

Originally posted by reignworld:

Originally posted by Witski:

The poor random dude know what a financial disaster is while microsoft and bethesda swim in money.
Make sense.

Bethesda and Microsoft aren't earning a damn cent lmao

Unless they see a significant increase in Xbox purchases and/or Xbox game pass users, the no. of players using gamepass to play SF is utterly negligible.

Read my comment above. Exclude out the outlier variables and look at what matters to make the fair comparison.

What matters? Steam only? Because you said so?

[Amplifier]

Originally posted by Witski:

Originally posted by reignworld:

Yeah I cant believe news sites are blindly reporting that. They getting paid by Bethesda to spread BS propaganda?

The most accurate gauge is to exclude out the Xbox players and look at Steam only.
And by that count, SF's player peak is nowhere close to even past Bethesda games like Skyrim and FO4

And why people should look only at steam to begin with?

Because as mentioned, the Xbox count isn't the least bit reliable due to Game Pass. People are essentially just playing the game for free. It's like Steam having a Free Weekend for a game. Suddenly the game's peak player count shoots up. Does that mean the game is successful? 100% ♥♥♥♥ no. Are the people playing the game for free even enjoying the game? We dont know. So the player count doesnt mean s***

[morph113]

Originally posted by Xaxoon:

Yes, yes, you're right. Now the genuine reviews are coming out, not just the bought and fanboy ratings.

Lol people like you are just silly. Yeah all positive reviews are bought or fanboys. All negative reviews are genuine reviews. Great logic.

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Originally posted by Witski:

Originally posted by reignworld:

Bethesda and Microsoft aren't earning a damn cent lmao

Unless they see a significant increase in Xbox purchases and/or Xbox game pass users, the no. of players using gamepass to play SF is utterly negligible.

Read my comment above. Exclude out the outlier variables and look at what matters to make the fair comparison.

What matters? Steam only? Because you said so?

Do you not know how to do statistics and research?
Do you not know what isolating variables and outliers mean?