Bethesda’s buyer help has been replying to particular person Starfield gamers on Steam who’ve left damaging critiques.
Regardless of the sci-fi RPG turning into a large success by way of gross sales for the studio and shortly turning into its biggest-ever sport launch, the sport has nonetheless obtained loads of criticism.
Three months after its launch, Starfield is presently sitting at a ‘Blended’ evaluate rating on Steam and, as flagged by consumer JuiceHead on Twitter (by way of Eurogamer), Bethesda has been responding to damaging critiques in an try to persuade gamers to offer the sport one other likelihood.
Responding to a participant who known as the sport “generic” and “boring”, Bethesda mentioned, “You possibly can fly, you may shoot, you may mine, you may loot! Starfield is an RPG with a whole bunch of hours of quests to finish and characters to satisfy. Most quests may even fluctuate in your character’s expertise and selections, massively altering the result of your playthrough.
“Strive creating completely different characters with backgrounds and traits that conflict or are oppositive of your earlier character. You’ll really feel like you might be enjoying a very completely different sport…”
It appears that evidently the help staff has been responding to damaging critiques all through November, with the newest submit being despatched earlier in the present day (November 28). One other consumer commented on the sport’s abundance of loading screens – a standard characteristic for Bethesda titles – and the way it occurs in virtually each occasion it’s essential to journey from completely different factors within the sport.
To this, the help staff mentioned that it was sorry that the participant was dissatisfied by the variety of loading screens, however requested the participant to “simply take into account the quantity of knowledge for the expansive gameplay that’s procedurally generated to load flawlessly in below 3 seconds. We imagine that shortcoming is not going to hinder our gamers from getting misplaced on this planet we created.”
There are a selection of different posts with damaging critiques, and whereas they don’t seem to be hitting again on the gamers for his or her opinions, it is uncommon for a giant studio like Bethesda to be so forthcoming with their responses to criticism, particularly on this format.
PC Gamer has additionally identified that Bethesda has pulled an analogous tactic earlier than with Fallout 76 – a mediocre sport with garnered criticism when it launched in 2018 – and to this present day is nonetheless responding to damaging critiques on Steam.
Elsewhere, Starfield lastly added Nvidia DLSS help for PC with its newest patch.
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