Bethesda employees try to convince Steam reviewers Starfield is a better game

[talloyer]

I've never seen a company so desperate to try to persuade us we are just playing Starfield wrong. https://www.vg247.com/starfield-bethesda-responding-to-negative-steam-reviews
It reminds me of this topic: https://youtu.be/I0Jf5gU39mc?si=ACtELivhzFaAwZPG

[Gonzo850]

If they don't say anything, it's a bad thing. If they say something, it's a bad thing. They can't win. At least they are reading the reviews.

[talloyer]

Originally posted by Gonzo850:

If they don't say anything, it's a bad thing. If they say something, it's a bad thing. They can't win. At least they are reading the reviews.

They should say nothing, at most make a topic suggeting ways or tops to enjoy better Starfield then providing a space for people to leave their feedback and suggestions to update Starfield.

[Gonzo850]

Their posts don't seem unreasonable to me.

"Bethesda_FalcoYamaoka [developer] Posted: Nov 9 @ 6:31am
Hi there,

Thank you for taking the time to provide your review and we are sorry to hear that you were disappointed with encountering many loading screens while playing.

While there may be loading screens in between fast travelling, just consider the amount of data for the expansive gameplay that is procedurally generated to load flawlessly in under 3 seconds. We believe that shortcoming will not hinder our players from getting lost in the world we created.

Starfield is an RPG with hundreds of hours of quests to complete and characters to meet. Most quests will also vary on your character’s skills and decisions, massively changing the outcome of your playthrough. Try creating different characters with backgrounds and characteristics that clash or are oppositive of your previous character. You will feel like you are playing a totally different game. Put points in different skills from a character you’ve previously created, and you are now faced with completely different decisions to make and difficulties to encounter. There are so many layers to Starfield, that you will find things you’ve never knew were possible after playing for hundreds of hours.
Even after completing the Main Story, your adventure doesn’t end! You can continue onto New Game+ to keep exploring Starfield and all that is out there!

You can send further feedback to development here: https://beth.games/46e5g8E

Never stop exploring!

Bethesda Customer Support"

[muffins]

Yeah, I saw a lot of those under customer reviews. It seemed extremely desperate to me. It's just excuse after excuse. The time and effort they used to spam those comments under negative reviews would have been better spent making the game better.

[A Spicy Meatball]

Yeah I've got nearly 900 hours in and I find new stuff, missions, side quests, and weird things I've never seen before....every day

Also, if you haven't done a complete walkthrough and then completed the main mission at least two more times, then you'll never truly experience how awesome this game is.

I've gone into a universe where everybody is different in how they act, one where all my companions I was going to meet, were all murdered, hell, I even ran into.....myself.

From the various ghost ships, to the very rare alien hatchery on a desolate world, there are amazing things in this game.

And the coolest part is they haven't even released the Creation kit yet.

And we all know what that will mean.

Those who pick apart games, instead of enjoying them, really need to take a step back.

[Ǥɾᴧᴤʆᴧᵯᴧ]

The Freestar Ranger, for example, which decodes the slates. In one game he's not very enthusiastic, like: yes, give me the slate, I'll do it. and in another game he's more like: you sexy slate, come to daddy. You're really surprised *g*

Otherwise, Bethesda is right to react to a review.
Some people think they're telling you how to play the game.
I mean, you don't run through CoD without a gun and complain that you can't get any further. Or in ARK you don't run naked towards a Spinosaurus and complain that it eats you every time.

[4kBuddz]

Don't complain if a company is engaged with it's user base. You'd be ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ your diaper if they DIDN'T say anything.

QUIT BEING SO ENTITLED AND ACTING LIKE SOME ELITIST.

[DawkinsForest5]

I think Bethesda employees are trying to get their money bonuses on Christmas. All what they need is only you money. And they will pursue this goal in may ways

[gingerbreadman]

Originally posted by muffins:

Yeah, I saw a lot of those under customer reviews. It seemed extremely desperate to me. It's just excuse after excuse. The time and effort they used to spam those comments under negative reviews would have been better spent making the game better.

Sigh… first and foremost, people in charge of posting these comments are NOT the same people in charge of working on the game.

Secondly, they aren’t “excuses”. They are attempting to explain why things are the way they are to a bunch of armchair experts…

But of course people like you, who know nothing about the industry, don’t understand that… this lack of comprehension is part of the problem

[DawkinsForest5]

Originally posted by Gingerbreadman:

But of course people like you, who know nothing about the industry

you either

[Machine Spirit]

Real astronauts landing on the moon is not an equal experience to landing on a moon in Starfield, but the fact people have to point this out to Bethesda is really quite shocking.

[Old Surehand]

Just because something is boring in real life, doesn't mean it should be boring in a video game.

And just because something isn't boring in real life, doesn't mean it should be boring in a video game.

[DawkinsForest5]

Originally posted by Machine Spirit:

Real astronauts landing on the moon is not an equal experience to landing on a moon in Starfield, but the fact people have to point this out to Bethesda is really quite shocking.

Real astronauts didn't see so many loading screens travelling. That's the difference

[RasaNova]

Great, yet another non-thing for people to point at in an attempt to further discredit a game they don't like.

Most times when a studio or publisher takes the time to respond to people's issues, it's a good thing. Leave it to Starfield detractors to turn it into another issue. Unreal.

That said, yeah I like the game but those studio responses like the one quoted above are mostly BS.

[dragonsclaw]

Well, they can write & try to convince all day long, their game needs to be in better shape in order to convince me to recommend others buying it. Period!

My ships refuse to land at my outposts like 60-70% of the time, Cargo links stop and continue working for no apparent reasons. Energy settings of my ship change randomly.
Hell! / LOL! - one batfox on my farm even ate the security chief of the outpost last night :D (I tried to take out the fox in order to safe my security chief, but the critter didnt take any damage). The fox calmly walked back into the pack afterwards and even didnt mind me hitting him quite hard (more than hard enough to kill a wild fox).
And... And... And... And to release a SPACE GAME to PC and dont give the users the option to use their hardware, namely Joystick, HOTAS or whatever they have, is - well, I cant find any words acceptable to human society that adequately describe how I feel about that dev-decision...

NO thumbs up from me until the most game-breaking bugs got fixed.