Starfield dead?

[GMCasper]

ok i hope starfield is not dead there are lots of people playing

but bethesda talked about coming out with updates every month they wrote that on twitter but after their big dlc which was a huge flop we haven't heard anything from them ? it's been almost 2 months since the last update ? what's going on

do you think they will come up with a huge update? or have they given up

[Emphoise]

Originally posted by GMCasper:

ok i hope starfield is not dead there are lots of people playing

but bethesda talked about coming out with updates every month they wrote that on twitter but after their big dlc which was a huge flop we haven't heard anything from them ? it's been almost 2 months since the last update ? what's going on

They never said "every month", there was a "one update about every 6 weeks" thing for a while and then they said it wouldnt be as frequent before the release of Shattered space.

[Kyle B]

Originally posted by GMCasper:

ok i hope starfield is not dead there are lots of people playing

but bethesda talked about coming out with updates every month they wrote that on twitter but after their big dlc which was a huge flop we haven't heard anything from them ? it's been almost 2 months since the last update ? what's going on

do you think they will come up with a huge update? or have they given up

I don't think the DLC was that bad. I feel like it's cool to hate on starfield, plus I think there is more DLC'S coming out

[Jᴧgᴧ]

Originally posted by Kyle B:

...plus I think there is more DLC'S coming out

If I had to play Nostradamus, I'd say just one more. I don't think the game's sales and continuing popularity are going to push it to a third or fourth DLC. Mini DLC *maybe*, but not large ones. I just don't think sales will support them, certainly not from Bethesda's original 10+ year "players still playing the game" perspective. Not like what Fallout 4 or Skyrim received.

"He's dead Jim."

Yes, I jest. But not completely.

[Skumboni]

Originally posted by Jᴧgᴧ:

Originally posted by Kyle B:

...plus I think there is more DLC'S coming out

If I had to play Nostradamus, I'd say just one more. I don't think the game's sales and continuing popularity are going to push it to a third or fourth DLC. Mini DLC *maybe*, but not large ones. I just don't think sales will support them, certainly not from Bethesda's original 10+ year "players still playing the game" perspective. Not like what Fallout 4 or Skyrim received.

"He's dead Jim."

Yes, I jest. But not completely.

Need a Princess Bride line too (Billy Crystal) - He is not all dead, just mostly dead.

[HeyYou]

Originally posted by Skumboni:

Originally posted by Jᴧgᴧ:

If I had to play Nostradamus, I'd say just one more. I don't think the game's sales and continuing popularity are going to push it to a third or fourth DLC. Mini DLC *maybe*, but not large ones. I just don't think sales will support them, certainly not from Bethesda's original 10+ year "players still playing the game" perspective. Not like what Fallout 4 or Skyrim received.

"He's dead Jim."

Yes, I jest. But not completely.

Need a Princess Bride line too (Billy Crystal) - He is not all dead, just mostly dead.

It's currently number 21 on the XBox most played list...... So, no, not dead at all. Doing reasonably well as a matter of fact.

[Emphoise]

Originally posted by HeyYou:

Originally posted by Skumboni:

Need a Princess Bride line too (Billy Crystal) - He is not all dead, just mostly dead.

It's currently number 21 on the XBox most played list...... So, no, not dead at all. Doing reasonably well as a matter of fact.

The website is lying, numbers are wrong, Todd personally told me Bethesda is abandonning Starfield, I am the main accounting manager at microsoft etc

arguments are coming

[Ihateeverybody]

I don't think it will be as popular as Skyrim and Fallout 4 were, but I don't think its done yet.

I think it scratched an itch that Bethesda had for the longest time. I think they learned some things (just as they do every game) that moves us closer and closer to another game.

Look at the numbers still playing Skyrim, Still playing Fallout 4. They didn't make a game good enough to draw those numbers to their new product. Skyrim (still tops 30k) will remain their Golden Child for the forseeable future. Starfield will find its place, just as Fallout 4 did (It never beat skyrim either, it hovers around 20k).

I suspect Starfield will settle out in a few years to 10-15k Sustained (that means over a period of time).

If we could look at SKyrim and FO4 numbers a year and some months from release, we would see lesser numbers too (Though I don't think as low, (Oblivion and Morrowind weren't as dominating at the time).

Again thats just my opinion.

[major tom]

looking at bethesda i am not sure it is relevant what "we" as customers think. relevant is only what bethesda and ms think. as long as they can ride on their "financial success wave" they will ignore us customers as they did since game release. it is simply their game only and their freedom to do that.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

They didn't say every month. They said they had a series of specific things they wanted to implement on their roadmap shortly after the game launched, and that they'd aim for updates "roughly every six weeks" pursuing those content updates, as well as normal patching.

They maintained that rough cadence for quite some time, and delivered all of the things they mentioned on said roadmap (specifically: local city maps, changes to ship customization, new settings to modify difficulty including some survival elements, new travel methods which turned out to be the ground vehicle, the launch of Creations and mod support, and the Shattered Space expansion.)

Following Shattered Space and their September 2024 update, they announced they were no longer going to adhere as stringently to the "roughly every six weeks" cadence, which was only ever approximate anyway, but would continue to support the game through patching. They also said they have an aspiration (not a promise or confirmation) to do one large expansion a year, but they did not officially confirm they would. Though there was some unofficial indication that at least one was in planning stages.

[Lonetac]

Yes, move on.

[Lonetac]

Originally posted by major tom:

looking at bethesda i am not sure it is relevant what "we" as customers think. relevant is only what bethesda and ms think. as long as they can ride on their "financial success wave" they will ignore us customers as they did since game release. it is simply their game only and their freedom to do that.

You are not a customer of starfield. So its irrelevant.

Doesnt matter what you think of fallout or skyrim.

[DANEDANGER]

Montly updates were only temporarly and not a given, you missed the announcement were beth said it would be temporarly and indeed, after the dlc they slowed down and was said they would do so. Nothing strange and certainly not a death game *shrugs*

[MadMarkMagee]

Originally posted by major tom:

looking at bethesda i am not sure it is relevant what "we" as customers think. relevant is only what bethesda and ms think. as long as they can ride on their "financial success wave" they will ignore us customers as they did since game release. it is simply their game only and their freedom to do that.

If you believe that, and if the other trolls believed that, then none of you would need to be on this forum 247 / 365.

[kdodds]

The DLC didn't flop either. Once the toxicity dies and blows away like dust in the wind, we'll see a very different picture and very different discussions. It's already happening, actually, across social media. People are actually taking the time to play Shattered Space rather than just pan it like Cockatoo flocks at dawn in Australia. And what those people are saying paints a very different picture of the DLC than is represented in the reviews, the bulk of which landed immediately on release (i.e. with no actual real experience playing it).

Shattered Space is one of the best DLC BGS has ever done. Right up there with Far Harbor and Dragonborn.

[Neuromante]

Yes, indeed people are flocking to buy the DLC and the game, they are on all the lists of the 100 best sellers and the most played...
yes, I forgot, gamepass, where people try the game and run away... increasing the number of sales. Or gamepass reduced the sales of the games by 80%?
I understand that you like the game but comparing the DLC with Farharbor or Dragomborn apart from being surreal is really funny...

The game is not dead, it is simply dying.....there will always be die-hard fanatics everywhere...