is the whole 10 year plan still a thing?

[Tsurumi]

is bethesda gonna spend 9 more years on this game? or are they going to cut their losses?

[JacEEEBABY]

I highly doubt it, game will be abandoned after the first dlc since there is such a small interest with the whole game now.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

I really have not been paying attention but when did they say there was a ten year plan after release. I vaguely remember seeing something where it took them 10 years or so to develop the game.

[Tsurumi]

yeah probs, i just hope microsoft is breathing down their necks to bring out their rpgs quicker, waiting 10 years+ for fallout 5 is inexcusable

[Tsurumi]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

I really have not been paying attention but when did they say there was a ten year plan after release. I vaguely remember seeing something where it took them 10 years or so to develop the game.

i remember they said they would support it for 10 years, i think it was in active dev since fallout 4sa launch but i could be wrong

[cravnmore]

I doubt 10 years. Unless it is really good for MS game pass.

Fallout saw 6 DLCs over 2 years. Starfield has at least 1 more DLC coming next year after that is anyone guess.

[Raven]

Originally posted by cravnmore:

I doubt 10 years. Unless it is really good for MS game pass.

Fallout saw 6 DLCs over 2 years. Starfield has at least 1 more DLC coming next year after that is anyone guess.

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who heard it fourth-hand, from a neighbour’s friend’s daughter – whom I never met, that Microsoft are putting everything else on the backburner and pushing everything into Starfield. I guess their taking the game pretty serious.

[Athmet]

Originally posted by JacEEEBABY:

I highly doubt it, game will be abandoned after the first dlc since there is such a small interest with the whole game now.

Seeing those forum bursting with activity kind of contradict the "small interesting with the whole game" you are believing in.

[Lemecc]

Supporting it for 10 years doesn't mean they won't be developing anything else at all. Any large studio has multiple teams working on multiple projects, not to mention they'll also have external teams working on stuff too.

So supporting Starfield for 1 year or 10 years will make no difference to when they develop their next game or how long it takes. Especially since yeah, Microsoft WILL be asking for milestones by certain points.

They're still "supporting" Skyrim and Fallout 4, and Skryim especially is old. New games will happen no matter what.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

They've stated an intention to release a story expansion annually tentatively for a while, so there is that. I think people should view such statements with a grain of salt though and see things like the whole "ten year" thing as just suggestive of how they handled Skyrim. Lots of post-release support, modding, iterative improvement, and probably enhanced or re-released versions somewhere at the late tail end of that lifespan.

More importantly though, who cares? The game is enjoyable to me as it is in its present form. I'm not an investor. What do I care about their losses or profits? I'm just enjoying my video game.

[JacEEEBABY]

Originally posted by Athmet:

Originally posted by JacEEEBABY:

I highly doubt it, game will be abandoned after the first dlc since there is such a small interest with the whole game now.

Seeing those forum bursting with activity kind of contradict the "small interesting with the whole game" you are believing in.

You're right its not looking good when the forums see more action than in game, the stats are embarrassing and say low interest on just about every metric you put it in. They threw the 10 year plan out their because that's how long they figured it would take to fix all the bugs.

[=CrimsoN=]

I feel like Starfield will have at least 3-4 major DLCS. The next DLC is already rumored to be titled, "Starborn" as Bethesda recently put in the trademark request for it.
https://gamerant.com/starfield-second-expansion-dlc-leaks-rumors-explained-starborn-trademark/

I get a feeling that we're going to see a lot of "mini-DLCs" through the Creations store though.

[patrick68794]

it sounds like that's still the plan. They have more expansions being planned right now

There haven't been any losses.

[K§H]

IIRC, there has never been a 10 year plan for Starfield or any such specific promise or intent. I think this notion is just a metamorphosed-over-time version of what Todd Howard actually said about the game:

"It's intentionally made to be played for a long time," said Todd Howard in an interview about Starfield with the AIAS Game Maker's Notebook Podcast back in September.

"It's one of things we've learned from our previous games," Howard said. "From Skyrim, from Fallout, that people want to play them for a very long time. So Starfield, I would say, was the most intentional going into it. This is a game people are going to play for a long time."

There are many sources for this, for example https://www.pcgamer.com/todd-howard-says-starfield-was-made-to-be-played-for-a-long-time-but-a-month-after-launch-im-already-drifting-away/

[Odd fella]

This is why I say the fans need to buy 10 copies of shattered space each.

[veer]

What losses? It has been a huge success. and yes I have been personally told that they are still planning on supporting it for a Minimum of 10 years with a DLC every year. at least. The Settled systems are so huge that the possibilities are endless. Including Xbox it is a huge cash cow for Microsoft.