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Starfield has lost 97% of its Steam players in less than six months (archive.is)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Skyrim is 13 years old and has many more players. It says "Starfield was not a return to form for Bethesda."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Is it something to do with modding-community?

If that generates a load of free cool stuff people may play more for longer.

The main IP rights owner probably doesn't really want this, they want to develop and sell a new game or expansion.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The main IP rights holder for Star field is the same as that of Skyrim (aka: Bethesda)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The IP holder at this point is Microsoft, so who knows. Microsoft has bought up a lot of big gaming outfits recently, so this is kind of new territory.

[–] Jessvj93 2 points 10 months ago

I'm waiting on more world shit mods to play it again, recently saw a house building mod on any planet and have my hopes up more will come. Granted Bethesda might actually want this engagement so they can release a definitive edition with hella mods, to bridge their own technical gaps again lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Vanilla Skyrim < Vanilla Starfield

Modded Skyrim >>> Vanilla Starfield

Simple as. I went back and replayed Vanilla Skyrim this year, and let me be the first to tell you that Starfield is legitimately a better game when it comes to roleplaying, choices, and quest design. Skyrim has a far more interactive and immersive world design, but to me that falls flat when the game is so fucking boring to interact with (hot take, I know).

Mods fix all of those problems with Skyrim, and that's what people are playing now.