>Starfield was a fl-AAACKKKK
Kneel and beg forgiveness from Todd, Ganker. Now.
https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/starfield-has-passed-12-million-players-as-phil-spencer-has-ton-of-confidence-in-its
Starfield Passes 12 Million Players
>Starfield was a fl-AAACKKKK
Kneel and beg forgiveness from Todd, Ganker. Now.
https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/starfield-has-passed-12-million-players-as-phil-spencer-has-ton-of-confidence-in-its
and how many copies have been sold?
500k?
I don't know why you guys keep posting this as if MS isn't a publicly traded company that has to disclose this shit.
Last sales metrics quoted to investors had Starfield sales around 7 mil, with a pretty decent (6%) surge in new and returning gamepass subscriptions, ie, subscriptions that have lapsed and re-upped.
Shut it anon. Nobody wants to hear any of that. Plus where's your proof????
It is believable.
Starfield was the best selling game in September and is currently the seventh best selling game of the year. Actual sales, not gamepass.
BG3 didn't even make it on the list, so over 7 million sales is realistic.
It will never be Skyrim levels of success, but this game was not a flop no matter how hard Ganker wishes it was. If this game released on PS5 it would have easily been one of the best selling games in years.
https://www.gameinformer.com/news/2023/10/18/starfield-was-the-best-selling-game-in-the-us-last-month-ps5-remained-top-console
>7 million sales
>account only brags about players
Is it a bad thing to celebrate that people play the game they have now? The whole "it's just players, so it doesn't matter" thing makes no sense to me at all.
I'd like to see you post your "source" since I know for a fact you're straight up lying, Mr. Shiteating Xbot.
Even if the 7 million sales is true Nice avoiding the 6. It's still a little more than half of what Fallout 4 sold.
>It's still a little more than half of what Fallout 4 sold.
Over the same period of time? And what about the increase in game pass subs?
>Over the same period of time?
Yup, but the game pass thing becomes one of those nebulas who the frick knows what it actually means metrics that allow people to both keep their jobs and make mediocre products by hiding blame.
>Starfield
>a game mainly about space travel/exploration
Lol. Lmao even.
At most it's a game mainly about fast travel and no exploration.
>check it
>almost half of the players on gamepass don't even make it to joining constellation
Oof.
the 10 million claim is from September 20.
>25m people boot up a game
>12.5m get 10 hours in
That is incredible. You are only disproving your zoomer-oofing.
Happened to me, saw how much it stuttered when I got out of the cave and dropped it.
how far into the game is that
>Mine rock
>Have vision
>Fight Pirates
>Fly to pirate base
>Kill or talk to pirates
>Fly to constellation
>Join constellation
>You can now go anywhere
Essentially it'd be like a bit under half of players never played fallout 3 long enough to get to Megaton. If the game put up walls to make sure you couldn't go anywhere else out of the vault instead of organically guiding you there.
Well only about half of all players joined the Minutemen in Fallout 4 according to steam achievements. Maybe not playing the game and just arguing about it is the correct way.
Honestly, I barely made it past the tutorial before turning it off. I was exceedingly bored already so I had every intention to never play it again. But then I saw all the memes about how "it gets better after 15 hours" or some stupid bullshit. So I decided okay let's see if I'll have fun after 15 hours.
I did not. Every hour, every minute, every single second was boring agony.
It hopes you'll connect to the characters, and new game plus it until you realize you're losing that connection and treating the game as a game not a story. It gets weirder the more times you NG+ it, and each time you NG+ you can skip more and more and more of the story to get to the point you can NG+ again and see how the universe gets weirder.
I got the achievement for linking 5 settlements in Starfield today. 2.2% of players have it since settlements are actually worthless. It's cheaper to buy them at stores when you need them than invest them into harvesting more of them. I just wanted to recruit every recruitable npc and put them on my settlements. But it actively costs more than it's worth to run settlements, they do not pay for themselves until you've maxed out the tree and have every single kind of factory running
That's actually excellent statistics for a single player game since most 50% of gamers on average fail to complete the first mission.
Spider-Man 2 had a main-story completion of 60% and a Platinum completion of 20%
According to Steam, 90% of people got through the Egypt area prologue for Talos 2 and 79 completed the first puzzle area. 29% of people beat the game and 26% of people did all the gold door puzzles and resurrected Minverva
. As many people weren't willing to even truly start the game as there were people doing every single puzzle in Talos 2.
I stopped playing when I arrived in New Africa
25%???? That is actually amazing. Many games have 20-30% of people not hitting start on a game that has cheevos for "hit start on start screen".
>a quarter of starfield detractors were assassinated before they could be re-education
>Starfield was a fl
oop
Not even true lol.
Only 11% of people have not finished the first mission, which is on par with a lot of games. The fricking achievement was also bugged, which is why it is not listed on mine as being completed.
Of course you have to lie and post outdated clickbait articles to push your moron narrative
Who pays to support these lies? The Chinese? (pic), salty ass Eurotards in the Sony cult. Tendies?
It's fine if you want to spam your moronic forced meme shit, but at least keep it in related threads, dude.
It's directly relevant considering a bad crpg with trash combat is somehow nominated for goty but the game with double, if not triple the actual sales gets snubbed
Well Xbox skipped advertising in last years show so they really shouldn't have expected to get any nominations.
Huh, that's odd. I thought Starfield was a failure.
>Players instead of sold units
Now tell us how many of those players used Gamepass.
How many copies sold
Oy vey!
Cool it with the antisemitism
just a few days ago it was 10 million. That's some decent growth in that time is it not?
it came for free with my CPU
>players
Total or concurrent?
>Spencer also thanked the fans "for the support on Starfield and making it a tremendous hit," also adding that it sits among the top 10 most played games by Microsoft's studios
Confirmed not to be a flop. Frick.
>among the top 10 most played games by Microsoft's studios
So it has more players than Halo Infinite?
Gosh!
Microsoft's studios released 10 games this year?
Still not playing until complete edition + e-girl mods are out.
holy fricking cope. todd and phil should help each other commit suicide
At a certain point, a lot of people will buy a game juts becasue of who made it. Doesn't mean they like it, it juts means they played it. Financially it might be a success but not in terms of how well liked it is. They are basically cashing in on their reputation. People want a good game in the bethesda formula, so they buy the next one, and the next one, hoping it will be good. Eventually that will run out. The creators should take on board the criticism that many are saying and think about how to rectify that for their next project, rather than saying "well it sold a bunch, we must be doing something right"
Definately, I buy every single Souls-like game. They are all trash. I just buy them cause everyone else does. Hate the genre. Hate the gameplay, Hate the art.
sold well and reviewed fine but for Bethesda's big new IP to have such a luke warm reception and no presence at the game awards is embarrassing for something that was supposed to be the next Elder Scrolls or Fallout.
I'm not one of those people who really wanted it to fail but this should be a warning to Bethesda that they aren't hot shit like they were in the Oblivion/Skyrim days.
Probably a wakeup call for Todd Howard that he's getting too old and does not really understand what modern gamers want.
Todd had stock on Zenimax and he got even more rich after the buyout.
Dont expect him to stick around much longer
Might as well retire, gaming is lame as frick. He should make alcohol or something. Spend the rest of his life on stuff that people would actually care about.
>does not really understand what modern gamers want.
>what modern gamers want.
If Starfield is the antithesis to what people who legitimately claim to be and wear the term/label of not only "gamer" but "modern gamer", then I feel even MORE justified in buying and having fun with Starfield.
When you watch interviews with Todd and he talks about his inspirations for starfield being space games he's played in his childhood and how he always wanted to make something like that. When you play starfield, it certainly isnt a bad game but it feels very dated. For Todd and the people who made the game being 50 year old who dont play as much modern games, they have an insulated view of video games so the game might be impressive to them but not for other gamers who play way more modern games nowadays that massively improve upon the bethesda formula.
I think this is where we disagree on Starfied. When I play Starfield, I don't feel the "dated" feel that people complain about. Then again, I've been playing games for decades now, so maybe it's just easier for me to look past, for example, unabashed but fast loading screens sometimes instead of "hidden" loading screens for the purpose of "immersion". Although, I do 100% agree that the team made the game they wanted to make and found it very impressive with Starfield, but that it may not have resonated with the current, modern "gamer". I just don't think that's an inherently bad thing at all.
That said, there's no doubt that TES VI will probably have more of those QoL things that "modern gamers" like. You'll very likely get hidden loading times, the graphics, the setting, the lore, the cinematics, the QoL and everything of that sort since, unlike Starfield, TES VI isn't a pet or passion project. All of the actually valid comments about Starfield that both can and cannot be fixed are going to be kept in mind for their mass market franchise in TES. I personally don't care for the games, but TES VI is definitely going to be "made for modern gamers" which I think will cause TES fans to be even more divided, but again that's just personal opinion.
Honestly im old and I've been playing games for decades too and I dont see the dated issue for starfield, Im just echoing the main complaints for a lot gamers have about the game.
There's no doubt they're gonna improve and implement a lot of modern QOL that modern gamers like though as you've said.
OH YEAH! WELL YO-....hold on you're not being combative or condescending? You're not just going to argue just to argue? On Ganker? Dammit, I wasn't ready for this.
Seriously though, the general point you were making was solid and true. Starfield is not really a game that passes the test for modern audiences and typical modern gamers. Thats definitely something that games like BG3 and even Cyberpunk have done a better job with doing.
I find the gunplay more satisfying in Cyberpunk, and the range of motion. There's mechanics at play that aren't just standing and shooting, and the AI actually try and fight back besides cover for 3 seconds, shoot, change cover, repeat. The shipcombat is like Skyrim's shield combat. There's a lot of depth there, but it's not any depth you're given any reason to use or even realize is there. Did you know shields could parry in skyrim? Probably not, because you can just hit the enemy with a sword and it does damage just fine, parrying to give an opening doesn't actually do anything besides making them play a parried animation. Just like there's no reason to learn how to sharp turn or play with engines and shields while in combat when you can just get a bigger reactor and have both at max all the time and deal with wide turns. Hell I put turrets as a tail guns and the AI just eats damage while I wide turn
I doubt Todd or any of the higher ups give a shit so long as the sales are decent and they avoid any major scandals. Anyone seriously invested in these properties creatively will have moved on by now.
Hell, I even gave that Immortals game a shot just because I saw Kirkbride was a writer for it. It's not very good though.
Imagine buying that trash because of a failed writer that left the company halfway through Morrowind's development. Holy shit. A fool and his money...
Oh I didn't buy it, there's a demo on the PS store.
If a game is shit it effects the next games sales more than the current ones. DMC 3 sold worse on release than 2 because their reputation was shot and only caught up later through strong word of mouth and rereleases
>the game awards
suddenly snoys give a shit about these lol
Fricking embarrassing dude
I spent almost 200hrs in starfield. I don't get the appeal. It's definately one of the worst games I've ever played. And in that I will admit that I don't play many games outside of the AAA arena. So technically this could be the best game ever made. I don't have enough experience to know for sure.
The appeal is to do enough new games you detach yourself from the world and understand The Hunter's point of view about how meaningless the galaxy is once you go back to the start enough times. It's trying to do Nier Automata's nihilism but is doing it so poorly and giving you no reason to ever actually NG+ to see the variations of the universe. Of course, once you NG+ your probably not doing every side quest to see every outcome again. You might do a few faction questlines to see what happens if you take alternate routes, but you've probably done the one you liked already so you'll just NG+ to see how the universe changes. Again, and again, and again. They assume you'll connect to the characters in the questlines so you can realize how little you care after you reset the universe. That's the point, but they didn't write interesting enough characters or designed interesting enough locations to make it effective
only 22k on steam right now, versus 160k for baulders gay 3
Yeah but at least 95% of the BG3 "players" are bots
> B-b-but Balls Hurt gay 3!!11
Irrelevant
sar?
>steam
game pass and xbox
Selling 12 million turds wow what an achievement
I bet could sell 12 million hits of Fentanyl.
micro$oft are fricking israelites what do you Black folk expect. those are not real numbers, fricking Black folk will inflate numbers for their own gain
Fricking based, real fantasy fans frick with niche products. Only around 50k posters actually understand this. We underground now boys. Going deep under culture.
>muh 12 gorillion
what "future" exactly? this game doesn't have much a future without reworking all the broken and pointless systems it has, it would take even more work than fixing cyberpunk did. or do they really just expect modders to fix everything for them?
I love the handful of "people" still mad starfield is selling, being played, and will make profit for the company. At some point these "people" will need to wake up form moms basement and find out, we don't care about you. No one does.
>selling
I have not seen any salesnumbers in this thread. Getting it on gamepass isn't the same as solely buying the game itself.
Nobody cares about They/Themfield.
imagine the smell
>players
>not sales
TOOOOODDDDDDDDD
Starsissies
Explain picrel
Thats the only (can be passed for a) white couple in the game too
There's only one child model in the game. And it was the one for Sarah's quest, since she was designed first, all other children are Sona in a color swapped outfit
Meant to post the image with this post
That isn't true. Go to Cydonia and see the two kids there.
Why make up stuff that is easily disproved?
Adam Jensen cucked his wife with a black woman.
More likely the other way round in Wokefield.
It must be true, they keep telling us how good it's doing.
>First Story Expansion
what are the odds this ends up being the only story expansion like Phantom Liberty?
If Atomic Heart is getting a 2nd DLC soon, Starfield is getting more than Shattered Space. Also both Phil and Todd are both very adamant that Starfield is going to be getting support for years to come (which would include more than just one DLC expansion). Also, Shattered Space is self proclaimed as "the first" story expansion which by itself insinuates more DLC story expansions.
Slim to none.
They are going with the E$O/76 model and landing whales.
They are going to pump out shit just as fast as the whales can swallow it.
Just remember the same dipshits including Phil himself said hi-fi rush wasn't an flop when in reality industry insiders and bethesda knew damn well it was an flop.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/critically-acclaimed-hi-fi-rush-didnt-make-the-money-it-needed-to-make-report/1100-6513467/#:~:text=Despite%20universal%20praise%2C%20Hi%2DFi,Microsoft%20has%20since%20suggested%20otherwise.
>Xbots face when another first party flop
>Inb4B-But Game pass guise!!!!
What the dipshits don't understand is player counts through game pass don't equate to game sales, without game sales, your game will flop no matter what it is, if you don't understand that about the industry, then you know nothing about it or how it works.
Which is a pity because it was a nice game
>didnt meet sales expectations
>According to Jeff Grubb from Giant Bomb
The same one who walked it back and pulled the "You all were just looking too much into what I said lol. You put words in my mouth so it's your fault for thinking that, not mine" thing.
Ganker btfo
I can entertain myself with a bit of slop, I played it for 200+ hours because it was something to do and I like RPG shooty shit with skill trees and gear but no one is saying the game is great. Its got stuff to do in it and things happen. I mean I probably spent as much time watching funny cats and dogs videos compilations but its slop innit.
starfield is a masterpiece.
> starfield is a masterpiece.
in terms of marketing.There are so many media and tuber shilled this game
Xbox drones don't have anything left, let them have it
Knowing Microshit, they gave away copies with 365 to Indian subscribers and counted it as a 'sale'.
it has a lot of issues but its a good shooter, ive never seen a game with larger battles, and the guns are pretty great. me and my wife andreja go from planet to planet with matching beowulfs executing justice. what more could i want?
All this proves is that morons will lap up any shitty game tagged as open world with a big marketing budget, which you should already be aware of