The one (singular) game everyone will be playing in just 24 days.
I expect 2 million concurrent players on Steam alone.
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The one (singular) game everyone will be playing in just 24 days. I expect 2 million concurrent players on Steam alone.
>2 million
Probably not. It'll be big but I'm thinking it'll hover around half that at most.
Game Pass will kill the Steam numbers. I think it will peak at a lower amount than BG3.
>I expect 2 million concurrent players on Steam alone.
>2mil concurrent players on release
>Bethesda game
Either this is your first Bethesda game or you are dumb as a fricking rock if you expect that Starfield will be anywhere close enough to be stable/playable for 2mil or even 1mil concurent players to play it on release or its first few week.
Both Skyrim and Fallout 4 set new records for all time concurrent players on Steam when they released, you fricking zoomer.
>zoomer
I've been around long enough that im not stupid enough as you are to think that Starfield will pull such numbers as you do.
>I've been around long enough
>doesn't remember F4 being one of the most played games back in 2015
Starfield will reach 1M
Ah, so you're a Playstation owner then
!RemindMe 25 days
>$70
>guaranteed to be bug-ridden
I'm good thanks
>¥70
its free on Gamepass ya goof, aint nobody buying this shit homie
>single player game
>0$
On steam? People will play it on game pass for $10 and get bored of it within a couple of weeks.
Yeah this is the plan. Then come back in a few years when the DLCs are out and hopefully good mods too. (Bethesda may decide to shit up the game with Creation Club at any time though.)
Also my PC is pretty outdated; still running a 1060 so I dunno if I can even run Starfield
as a poorgay i will play it on goypass so I doubt it will even pass 500k, however the total will be higher than baldurs gay
im not buying that at launch, its gonna be fallout 4 trash run and gunning with missing content
Anyone who buys this at launch is a straight up consumer sheep. Unironically. I love Bethesda, love their games, but their launches are dogshit. Always are. Let the normies beta test it for you.
>Anyone who buys this at launch is a straight up consumer sheep. Unironically. I love Bethesda, love their games, but their launches are dogshit. Always are. Let the normies beta test it for you.
If the game is not an unplayable mess (chances are it is fricked at the core due to modern monetisation) It will take a year and a half minimum to fix.
i expect a 79 on metacritic with heavy creation club paid content
>split release date and gamepass on the 6th
It won't break 500k on Steam. Bunch of people will pay to play early, pirates will get ahold of it then aswell. On the 6th the rest are playing and gamepass is stealing alot of those players.
Bethesda uses Denuvo, unless that empress schizo cracks it, pirates ain't getting shit.
BGS has never used it, and its still not announced for Starfield or on the Steam page
Really doubt they'd opt out of using it for their biggest game in years when their sibling studios used it for way smaller games. Also they usually add the Denuvo tag a few days before release or on release day, so I wouldn't get my hopes up.
>The one (singular) game everyone will be playing in just 24 days.
the majority of people have payed for early access which is in 18 days
That's 5 days of no Ganker for me, I guess.
At this point I want it to beat BG3 cuz Larian troons are the absolute worst subhumans on this planet.
>The one (singular) game everyone will be playing in just 24 days.
lol
I'm getting ac6 instead
>no hype
Already overshadowed by Starfield.
overshadowed with negative pres, and actual competition(nms, elite, etc)
I'd like to see what they do better than NMS though. I'm sure Starfield at least will be fun to explore.
It won’t. It’s just going to be Fallout 4 again.
Wow, does you uncle work at Bethesda? You seem to know a lot of insider info
>Wow, does you uncle work at Bethesda? You seem to know a lot of insider info
My dad is friend with Preston Garvey from Bethesda and he said that Starfield has been 25 years in the making.
imagine being optimistic for bethesda in the year two thousand and twenty three
it's better to shit on it and be surprised than get your hopes crushed again
>It won’t. It’s just going to be Fallout 4 again.
Yep, that's what I expect too. Lots of trivial nonsense like the fridge boy that breaks immersion and the world around you.
>Lots of trivial nonsense like the fridge boy that breaks immersion and the world around you.
I don't see why this is a problem when Fallout 2 had the literal Tard-to-Tard Communication scene.
Its going to have a story. NMS is a nice sandbox but the story is so bad and unimportant.
They will be playing Armored Core 6 and not bother with all the T-posing black people in (empty) space
The fricking game is 120aud on steam.
One hundred and twenty.
Todd you israelite frick this is too much.
I was rewatching the Starfield Direct and so much of it just looks boring. I don't have any interest in wondering around empty planets. Hopefully I can just skip all the boring shit and get to the good bits where the devs actually put effort into the game.
>Good bits
Poor naive anon
The good bits to me are the characters in towns and cities rather than the terrible gunplay.
It doesn't even matter how many are playing it concurrently on day one or whatever. All that matters is if you think its good. I won't even be coming to this board for about two weeks at least once it drops.
>It doesn't even matter how many are playing it concurrently on day one or whatever. All that matters is if you think its good
The only sane anon on Ganker. He will soon be corrupted by this environment.
Why do people pretend to be excited for games? Particularly on an anonymous website?
>fallout 4 x No Man's Sky
>Lies of dollar store Bloodborne clone
and others I can't even name off the top of my head.
If you Black folk are really "hyped" for this crap then the problem with the industry isn't the troony devs, it's the braindead gamers
>Why do people pretend to be excited for games?
Because the Bethesda formula for explorable worlds is really solid, and this seems to be expanding on that formula with interesting mechanics and subsystems? This isn't Fallout 4 with Settlements tacked on and forced on you, things like Ship-building and Outpost construction seem significantly more intuitive and satisfying than building a teleporter in the first settlement you make.
I'm playing Skyrim right now, it's still fun. Definitely showing it's age, but I can log 2 hours on that easy a decade after launch. Same with New Vegas. Fallout 4 was kind of an abortion, but that game departed from the Bethesda model in some very prominent ways, which haven't been replicated here. I guess the point I want to get across, without getting into a debate over something as nebulous as feelings, is that Starfield has qualities I've seen in other games I enjoy, and since I'm now a grown man with obligations and multiple hobbies, I can simply throw Starfield onto the backburner of my brain until it launches. I'm hyped, but that doesn't mean what it used to mean when I was waiting outside for the Halo 2 midnight release.
>NV...
Skyrim was Bethesda's last hurrah. They don't remember how to make games that are good. The visuals are stunning but their showcase left me wondering what aspects of the gameplay itself were raising the bar. What have they fine tuned? I especially feel that they always walk back RPG elements when it was never necessary to do this. Skyrim lost all (vanilla) replayablity since you eventually unlock everything anyway. It isn't better to do everything in one playthrough. But Bethesday doesn't understand videogames anymore so this concept would never fly with them.
Those are valid concerns, and largely the source of my tempered expectations. The visuals are stunning and the focus of the game feels fine-tuned to everything I've wanted out of a sci-fi exploration game, but they've been hiding a lot of the game's more mundane mechanics from us. Interacting with npcs remains unchanged from Fallout 4 or even Skyrim, combat seems very solid (especially for an "RPG" that has 1st and 3rd person) but it's ultimately just Skyrim with flashier effects and stronger graphics.
But the RPG thing worries me the most. How does it work? They don't show us this. I like the idea of Backgrounds and three "Perks," but that's where things have ended. They show us you can get badges for things like Shotgun 3 or Chemistry 7, but if that's the extent of RPG diversity than I'm going to seethe. They haven't shown us if you can get Talents, or Level Up, or how you can fine-tune your experience to a specific playstyle. That's definitely something which gets me worried.
I've played enough No Man's Sky to be fine with Starfield's choice in planetary exploration design. I've come to accept that 1:1 worlds with vast gulfs of nothing between planets is silly. It's a neat gimmick, but you give up on it after a while.
It looks like Prefab with top-down placement, so basically No Man's Sky only you can actually have some control over layout. Thank God. Not sure if you can research Prefabs later, but I'd believe it.
The alternative to Prefab would be, again, how No Man's Sky does it. You get empty "rooms," and you can attach them to each other or stack them on each other to build structures, and then fill said rooms in with equipment. Bethesda has been touting their experience with Doom Eternal's "sticky maps" so we can expect that here.
Gonna wait at least a year before I play it so there's some decent mods out and the rest of you beta tested them for me.
It will just work
Pre-sales are in and Starfield has sold 7 Gorrilion copies and is expected to have At least 3 Gorrilion concurrent players on Steam at launch. Starfield is the 2nd most successful video game in the known Universe bros.
holy shit, I just saw next week on CNN that due to these early reports of Starfelds success Nintendo and Sony have both announced their closure due to Microsoft-Bethesda dropping the videogame of all time that their won’t be anymore videogames unless its on Xbox
its fricking over BG3 gays, your game died of monkeypox after too many sauna visits, your furry pee party orgy is over
>Nintendo and Sony have both announced their closure
Nooo I want to play RDR1 $50 port on my nintendo Switch!!!!!
It's not even just the fact that gamepass exists, the system requirements on PC for this game are simply too high for its launch to be massive
Recommended requirements on steam on par with Baldurs Gate
The game runs on a series s lol
No one knows how it runs on the Series S.
>No one knows how it runs on the Series S.
it has to rub with parity with Swries X because Microsoft demands it, I expect a rock solids 60fps just a lower resolution 1080p and maybe some shadows not as good and loading maybe texures loading jssues but this will rub like butter on Aeries S
Starfield has been confirmed to be locked to 30fps on both consoles
https://www.ign.com/articles/bethesdas-todd-howard-confirms-starfield-performance-and-frame-rate-on-xbox-series-x-and-s
what the frick? even Series X??? isn’t the X the most powerful console on the market? this is very concerning
>isn’t the X the most powerful console on the market?
still barely more powerful than a toaster
they're using last gen mid range gpus and 2 generations old cpus made from rejected desktop and server silicon running at significantly lower clock speeds
still more powerful than ~75% of PC owners ‘gaming rigs’
i'd downgrade to a fricking rx470 over having a console
one can do everything i want while the other is a toy
bullshot this will be Redfall issue again, another Bethesda game, where they will release the 60fps patch shortly after launch. non issue
cope?
>People will still for Todd Howard's lies and buy the game on launch
Is what I would say if Bethesda was still the only main company releasing bugfest games on release. Now you can rely on nearly all AAA studios to release bugfest games on launch. Now there isn't anything that differentiates Bethesda...
Question about Outposts, do you think they'll come prefab or will I have to autistically place everything myself?
It looks like prefab modules to me, hopefully it is
I hope so too, I actually kinda like how a lot of the interiors look like something between Chris Pine Star Trek and your average tech startup office building
>I expect 2 million concurrent players on Steam alone.
Why would people buy it on Steam when it's on gamepass?
>doesn't know the preorder numbers
Because modding gamepass games isn't a thing. I also much rather spend the $70 and own the game instead of renting it from MS. Starfield will be one of those games I revisit once in a while so I think owning it is the better option.
TELL ME LIES TELL ME SWEET LITTLE LIES
Its not. Its going to be split up hard between xbox game pass gays playing the game for like a $1 or whatever
it will sell approx 50k units across all platforms and the highest concurrent player count will peak at 10k
immagine armored core having more players than this
it’s very unlikely but it would be so silly
What's silly about a fun game from a studio people like having more players than a boring game from a studio people only remember liking at some point in the past?
>junk robot shit that nobody knew until last year has managed to outsell the new game from the creators of skyrim and fallout 3
it’s hillarious
I'll pirate it maybe in two months, after a few patches fixing all the major bugs, and then I'll check out the available mods before I even start playing it.
>I expect 2 million concurrent players on Steam alone.
It will be big, but nowhere near that, not by a mile. More like 10-15k tops until people realise it is a buggy mess and they need to wait for patches.
Used a 25$ gift card and got the premium upgrade for 18 bucks so I get to play in just 19 days.
There's no point playing it early because it'll be full of gamebreaking bugs.