Bethesda, the developer behind Starfield, has began to answer adverse critiques of the sport on Steam with explanation why gamers are misguided of their evaluation. On the time of writing, I’ve counted over 100 adverse critiques on Steam which have obtained a response from the developer.

Bizarrely, in some responses, Bethesda representatives have taken to telling gamers what they will do within the recreation. “You may fly, you possibly can shoot, you possibly can mine, you possibly can loot! Starfield is an RPG with lots of of hours of quests to finish and characters to fulfill.” Which was the response to xellas84 who left an in depth overview and has 224 hours recorded within the recreation.

Quite a lot of the responses appear to be toeing the road of claiming the overview is flawed whereas then plugging the sport, which is a daring transfer beneath a adverse overview.

If you wish to take a look at a number of the different 100+ Besthesda responses, you are able to do so on the Steam overview web page. You’ll discover that loads of them are repetitive, which is comprehensible, provided that loads of adverse critiques level to related points with the sport, reminiscent of not having the ability to fly ships, empty planets, and mediocre quests.

Starfield at the moment sits at a “Blended” Steam ranking from each current and total critiques. Regardless of the Bethesda representatives assuring gamers that the sport is being continuously improved, the impact of that’s but to indicate up within the critiques.

If the objective from Bethesda was to restrict the harm that adverse critiques trigger, maybe they need to have regarded up the Streisand impact first.