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Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall (www.vg247.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Mereo@lemmy.ca to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 146 points 5 months ago

Its mentioned in the article, but it bears repeating.

They force give you the first quest of a questline for free, and then charge you seven bucks for the second 15 minute quest.

Its also not complete, its an early access paid mod where they clearly cut content out of the game just to give you the first hit of a faction questline, end that first quest on a cliff hanger, and then charge 7 bucks per quest. And before this, the faction was just a series of kiosks giving radiant quests.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago

Fuck that's bad. Though I'm not playing starfield I'm certainly paying attention to shit like this. Before 76 I would have been a fully committed fanboy pre-ordering most, if not all, Bethesda games. Between 76 and other shenanigans they had dropped sharply out of favor. I wasn't going to buy a game brand new until reviews came out (hence why I still haven't played starfield). They gained some favor back with the TV series as it seemed well done for just my kind of interest level. Now they're losing it again.

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Are you worried they run out of copies or something?

[-] iheartneopets@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Idk why the tv show would have gotten them any grace? As far as I know, all they did was let the property be bought and used by Amazon. Todd Howard executive produced, but that's not saying much. The show has nothing to do with them as a studio. They just lucked into a team who had something interesting planned with the IP.