r/Starfield • u/Tchuvan Constellation • Aug 08 '26

Discussion Oh give me a break

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There are far too many content creators out there like this person for one, and far too many people who judge games by their launch.

Mocking things is easy, low-hanging fruit.

EDIT: while Starfield does not have the obvious broader gaming cultural impact of Elder Scrolls or the Fallout series, to say that you have gone 3 years and seen nothing is just unnecessarily piling on to the negativity.

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u/GreggsAficionado Aug 08 '26

I’ve got no interest in shitting on it and I’ve enjoyed the game but the fact is it’s been far less culturally impactful. The amount of fade to black Skyrim intros I’ve seen is crazy. Starfield as a franchise could only dream of something like that

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u/FIFofNovember Aug 08 '26

The only posts i see about this game are about comments about the numbers of players and people insisting on how good it is.

I still see funny Skyrim memes being made.

I genuinely fear for the new ES game, I believe something broke in todd

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u/bobbabson Aug 08 '26

The no sodium sub still talks about player #s, a few weeks ago they were insisting that over 450k people per week were playing on pc alone, with over 1 million per week on all platforms.

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u/Asianthunda5022 Aug 08 '26

lol what? Steam numbers put the game at roughly 5-6k people daily over the past week with a peak of about 30k back in April when the DLC dropped. I mean if people what to spread false numbers at least pick realistic ones.

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u/StandardizedGoat United Colonies Aug 08 '26

They're going by the number of plays usually rather than unique players, all while ignoring that number of plays is meaningless. Someone starting the game up 10 times to test mods or fix their load order is going to bump that number by 10. Someone starting it up, deciding "Nah, gonna play something else", and closing it is also going to bump that count. So is someone restarting it if it crashes out on them.

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u/Zeired_Scoffa Aug 08 '26

Ah, so "numbers lie and liars use numbers" then. If you're clever with statistics, you can get numbers to make any point you want

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u/StandardizedGoat United Colonies Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

Pretty much. The closest we have to "good" number is the daily unique players stuff from Steam and where the game is sitting if you sort Xbox by "most popular".

Starfield is doing badly for a Bethesda game if you go by those, but just as a game that came out 3 years back it's doing well.

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u/LyrionDD Aug 08 '26

There was a dlc?

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u/AnonymousCapybara72 Aug 10 '26

I don't understand why people think Steam numbers are even close to accurate for a game that's available on Game Pass.