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Starfield Update 1.11.36 - May 15, 2024

Starfield’s latest update is here and it’s bringing several new features with it!

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Silly Mammo33d ago

Is that Laszlo Cravensworth aka Jackie Daytona, the human bartender?

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Starfield Crossed 14M, to Get Annual Story DLC; Shattered Space Set on a Planet, Is Far Harbor-Sized

Starfield has crossed the 14 million player milestone and will get annual story expansions. Shattered Space takes place on a single planet.

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AsimLionheart23h ago

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entri...

Looks like you are looking to start a players vs sales debate.

purple10121h ago

Il join

Here in the uk starfield is available for £12 in the bargain bins.

This doesn’t happen with Sony or Nintendo ‘s big first party games

Oh wait it isn’t first party, they were always going to have starfield anyway, they just brought the publisher and decided not to release on PlayStation

itsmebryan13h ago

@purple101

Sony and Nintendo games never go to the bargain bin? Never Every? Not one game? That's a great achievement .

abstractel5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

14 million copies excluding game pass downloaders? Game was bound to be pretty successful given dev's reputation & MS's marketing. Still impressive considering it's at best an above average game that launched at 30fps. I played it on PC, so didn't have to deal with that. I liked it but this was not what I expected from the developers of Skyrim and Fallout.

Btw, is Far Harbor size a good size? Not sure if that comparison means good or bad for the DLC size-wise.

MrNinosan23h ago

14 million installs out of how many GamePass subscribers?
Starfield was supposed to be THE game of the generation, and providing it for free to over 25 million users should imo have a higher install base.

I like Starfield, even bought the game, but it's sadly nowhere near a game of the generation, not even one of the best games last year.

Hope it will make the same turn around as Cyberpunk, FFXIV and No Man Sky 👍

Armaggedon22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

The way people keep turning their attention to it says otherwise. People rely too much on statistics. It doesnt matter if people stopped playing it. People stop playing games

Stanlittle17h ago

Purple101 come on man stop lying I'm here and you are talking about trade in credit.

https://uk.webuy.com/produc...

fr0sty15h ago

Trade in credit is still on sale. That means they're not moving copies as fast as they'd hoped to, so they're starting to employ different schemes to move it faster.

purple1012h ago

https://www.hotukdeals.com/... £12 last week at game

Currently £15 at Smyths

https://www.hotukdeals.com/...

I don’t lie
Sometimes get things wrong because I am not perfect
But lie on purpose, no

itsmebryan13h ago

@attilayauzer
Like that great poet Taylor swift said " Haters are goin' ,hate , hate..."

Obscure_Observer13h ago(Edited 13h ago)

"Starfield doomers punching air."

There´s nothing else they can do right now.

They should know better that games Bethesda Softworks has crazy legs.

So happy to know that we´ll be getting annual expansions! Bethesda is definitely better under Xbox with more money to fund their games, and more freedom to create.

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Terry_B22h ago

Guess the game might be good in 2 years.

-Foxtrot18h ago

May aswell wait for the final completed game then

Terry_B17h ago(Edited 17h ago)

Thats the plan, worked well with Cyberpunk too

Reaper22_22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

Huge numbers. Congratulations to Microsoft and Bethesda.

ChasterMies21h ago

A $3 trillion company couldn’t do this without your support.

BeHunted21h ago

Sony will wish they had reached 14 million players with Concord

badz14921h ago

@BeHunted

why use Concord? is it coming from a huge developer in the ballpark of Bethesda?

here:

https://www.psu.com/news/ma...

Spider-man 2 over 11mil units SOLD and Helldivers 2 over 12mil units SOLD. Bethesda wish they can use the word SOLD with Starfield LOL

MrNinosan20h ago

@BeHunted
Why use Concord as an example, that doesn't come with a Subscription service that is handed out for free when buying a burger?

Use Astros Playroom for a better measurement, 58+ million installs 😘

Reaper22_16h ago

Doesn't matter. It's a good accomplishment. The game is a success.

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Cockney21h ago

That's a possible revenue of nearly a £billion if sales were your main target

fr0sty15h ago

but instead, it wasn't, and GP subscriptions haven't risen by $3 billion, in fact, they're stagnant, so they've lost money.

ChasterMies21h ago

These numbers are difficult to parse without context. How do we compare nunbers played on Game Pass with actual sales of games like Skyrim and Cyberpunk 2077? A good start would be achievement data. If we know how many players kept playing past the first few missions, we would have a good idea of how many players considered the game a value addition for Game Pass.

MrNinosan18h ago

Still difficult to calculate.
I mean, every single MS game are supposed to be on GamePass Ultimate.
If you combine all those possible sales and on top of that, remove all costs for third party games on the services.

Would the total revenue/profit be bigger or smaller than the total revenue from GamePass alone?

I'm most certain this is eating profit madly

ChasterMies16h ago

$204/year for Game Pass Ultimate is a lot of potential profit for Microsoft. It’s $2B/year for every 10M subscribers. That pays for a lot of game development. The problem is that Microsoft also has to pay all those 3rd parties for their games. I think the future of Game Pass is fewer 3rd party games.

BeHunted15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

@ChasterMies

Amazon India: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is about $100 for 24 Months, or $19 for 12 months (2x 6 Months Game Pass Core subscription). VPN does the trick when redeeming on Microsoft's website.

MrNinosan9h ago

@ChasterMies
No one spends $204/year for GPU...
Not even the dumb ones...

$2B/year doesn't even cover salaries for the employees, less so the 80 billion spent on trying to get monopoly last few years.

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Starfield players are turning the game into a Star Wars Bounty Hunter remake

Starfield players are channeling their inner Boba Fett, as the latest mods are helping turn the game into a Star Wars Bounty Hunter remake.

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anast3d ago

This game could have been insanely cool.

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Starfield review bombed over £9 quest that takes 15 minutes to finish

Bethesda surprised fans with mod support and a free quest in Starfield, but the mission cost 700 credits to continue and fans are not happy.

purple1014d ago

somebody call animal protection services, Microsoft are trying to flog a dead horse

just_looken4d ago

Love this site

Fallout 76/fallout 4/skyrim all had bs paid mods far worse than this

But oh no bethdesda are saints they never screw over the customer its that evil Microsoft that is causing this.

Chevalier4d ago

So you're saying the $3 trillion company can't change that about the company they OWN? Sorry that's absolutely 💯 idiotic.

just_looken4d ago

@chev

I am saying bethdesda has been doing shady tactics screwing over its fan's for a decade +

I did not add elder scroll's online or the fact they like blizzard own anything you make with there mod tool's.

There was backlash but never mainstream week long just a little blimp here/there then Microsoft buys them now everything is exposed portrayed as if this big evil corporation has corrupted our poor tod boo that evil ms.

abstractel4d ago

This site is really skewed against Microsoft and they deserve a lot of it but to say that this is new and is caused by Microsoft is not realizing Bethesda's history. Anyone remember the $15 horse armor that was at the beginning of micro-transactions that pissed everyone off way, way before Microsoft was involved?

S2Killinit3d ago

Stupidest comment. So it’s not MS fault then? Is that what you are trying to tell us?

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Kados4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

MS is not doing anything, and that is the problem. Bethesda is stubborn and lazy, and MS has a policy of not interfering with their studios for the most part, but in this case they need to just play the bad cop, and start regulating on Bethesda.

just_looken4d ago

Mat booty is in charge right now he issued refund's for redfall dlc laid off that dev team and is overseeing the starfield updates.
https://www.pcgamer.com/aft...

October of last year is when after 3years they took the rains away so 2024 is when we can say yes that was M$

But the whole paid mods are bs deal screwing over customers and overpriced dlc to content available that has been bethdesda for many many years now.

Bathyj4d ago

Dollars to minutes, that's like 4 times worse than Hellblade 2.

Cacabunga4d ago

Blame those sheep who bought these quests

DaCajun4d ago

You know what is ridiculous? The same people complaining about this probably paid $20 or more for a skin in other games.

MrDead4d ago

This is the only Bethesda RPG that I haven't finished and have very little interest in returning too. Over priced MTs aren't going to make this game fun

just_looken4d ago

I fired it up yesterday beyond the need for a bethdesda account to access the mod section the game is the same after all the patches.

But the whole customize you hub on your ship the game gives 0 clue how i had to look it up you pull up your scan tool when in a empty hab i am like scan tool? what button is that again. Five minutes later ohh ok that button

Then i saw 0 addition the same crap same issue from day one and the items but now they just break landing/flying its a gltich fuck fest. If you ever built in one of those pointless homes you can do that in your ship with all the same issues hazahh

So do not worry take it from someone that has over 200hours has not finished the campaign the only good thing the added was a map that has icons and the main mission if i can't go to sleep or have to much energy they are still so bad i passout with in the first section so now that its performance issues are fixed i can load one up much quicker cheap knock out device right there.

jwillj2k44d ago

“Bethesda surprised fans with mod support”

This is a joke right??

DarXyde4d ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they start disabling mods on older titles to push people toward Starfield?

dumahim4d ago

Not really. Whenever they update the game, it will break any mods that touch something that was patched in any way. The mods can be updated to work again, but that might not happen if the mod maker has moved on.
They're not patching the game with the intent to break mods, it's just collateral damage from the update process. They're more concerned with what they're doing, not the community.

Relientk774d ago

Deservingly so. Don't support Bethesda's greedy practice

OlderGamer174d ago

So don't support MS for theyr greedy practice besause Bethesda is owned by MS. You better call a horse a horse

TheColbertinator4d ago

Bethesda was doing this before they got bought out by Microsoft. Skyrim was the first game to get Creation Club and since then opened up a can of worms. They also started the horse armor debacle back in 2006 which began this entire mess in the first place.

jznrpg4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Bethesda was doing this before the purchase but because of these practices MS wanted to buy them. MS can’t make enough money selling games but they think they can with MT’s and paid dlc, passes etc. This is what you get with your “free game rental service” aka Gamepass

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