Am I so out of touch...?

No, it's the players that are wrong.

Its almost like, you had a perfectly good place to openly say why it is the way it is. And instead you decided to just be like you know not the way of wizards.

At this point I don’t want to play Starfield because I don’t want to support all of these shit asses.

Their working culture must be incredibly toxic to be responding like this to valid criticism.

It really explains the state of the game.

LOL, yup keep bashing the customers. Bethesda are sprinting to their grave. Whole lot of trust has been flying out the window since 76 dropped and it doesn't seem to be slowing

They treat their users like children yet those same children are the ones finishing the broken games they shit out

Doesn’t matter why a design is a certain way - if it’s shit, it’s shit.

Knowing why something is shit doesn’t make it not shit all of the sudden. I could tell you that Devil May Cry 2 was literally a single animation before they released it 4 months later, but it doesn’t make DMC2 a better game.

Is it the Creation engine?

"No, you don't understand, game dev is hard"

Is it the Creation engine?

"Is not that simple! There are complexities abound!"

Is it the Creation engine?

"Yes..."

Don't fool yourself into thinking that even a single player cares why it is the way it is.

Because you've been reskinning Morrowind for 20 years? A game that you can probably ai generate at this point?

Someone just watched that Nakeyjakey video lol

So... then what is the real reason? You can't go screaming "You don't understand why it is like this!" without offering an explanation, and then wonder why people are listening to only the offered up reasons where they can get it (which generally is their own experience).

Most people don't get it.

With the right perspective you can note the sleek curves and suble divets. The way it flows and flops. It becomes possible to appreciate the subtle aromas of digested tendies and ketchup. Then you realise it's a part of you.. you are a part of the poo and the poo is a part of you.

That's how you enjoy that thing you don't understand silly billy

This is a game I'll happily avoid. I had my last taste of the tired Bethesda formula with Fallout 4.

All subsequent releases since then have demonstrated to me they prefer to trudge in the same lane they established almost twenty years ago.

On the way to work this morning and thought “I’d like to replay fallout 4” and I think now it was because after playing Starfield for 120, bg3 for 140, returning to cyberpunk for now a total of 400 that… uh.. I’d like to relive an at-the-time okay Bethesda game?

I enjoyed Starfield at times but man, it was certainly underwhelming. I was not necessarily disappointed because I was not expecting much from it, but it really did not surprise at any turn.

Wish they had just done a huge, bespoke solar system and not “an entire galaxy” of 5 outposts featuring literally identical dead npcs and flavor text. Kinda hard to feel the tragedy of a failed farm outpost when you already experienced the exact same failed farm outpost (down to the names of the people writing the logs) two planets over. (Man you get around, Dr. Nadia!)

You would think all those AAA devs would know by now that voicing that kind of stuff publicly is shit PR. Strangely enough sometime the indies appear to be the professional one.

That being said, I read the 5 Tweets, which I doubt many here did, and it is really not that bad. It is probably in response to some reviewers calling the game thrash with made-up fanfiction how game development goes. I think it is the later he has an issue with. Not that some players dislike the game.

Calling out your customers is always a losing bet. But he's absolutely right in its rant. Anyone who worked professionally in a game studio understand that the very vast majority of gamers are clueless, and especially those who speak with authority on YouTube and big platforms. Listening to such bs takes and misinformation over time certainly has its toll. "Gamers" in general, or should I say vocal gamers, are a very annoying and whiny bunch to please. You can hate playing a game all you want, but some gamers take it too far by attacking the devs directly and making it personal on top of making up bullshit about the nature of the job. "Gamedev is hard" is a terrible response to tell your userbase, but if more people understood how fucking true it is maybe they'd have a bit more empathy and would realize how petty some of the complaints.are in the bigger scheme of things.

Starfield is what happens when you make "no design doc" policy in all post-oblivion games. It might work in 2011, but with a bigger scope of development they were sure to fail.