Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall : starfield

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 57 points 5 months ago

Its worse than that. They added an entire questline, gave you the first quest, and then charged 7 dollars per quest!

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 29 points 5 months ago

Howards gone off the rails. He's a corpo hack. Always was, but now he can shed the leather jacket and McDuck dive into his pool of Creation Coins with no shame.

[-] off_brand_@beehaw.org 8 points 5 months ago

$7, but you a only spend $10 at a time! It ain't gonna be 10 quests or 5 quests. It's gonna be like 3 or six so you'll be left with $9 in coins and feel like you're wasting cash if you don't spend another $10 to buy some other creation club shit.

God I fucking hate the premium currency tactic.

[-] cholesterol@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

What's the total price, then?

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 9 points 5 months ago

Who knows? It's an early access paid mod, meaning they only did the first two quests, and promised more.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

To continue this quest, please insert credit card.

To access this quest location, please insert credit card.

To complete this quest, please insert credit card.

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

If I’m reading it right, it’s a quest framework and one quest is free, the other is paid. So it sounds like we’ll be able to completely ignore the quest if you never visit CC content in the first place.

For free mod purposes, sounds like it should be easier for mod makers to create bounty hunting quests.

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yes you're reading it perfectly, Bethesda as usual actually isn't being as money hungry as they could've.

People still gonna hate though, that Starfield/Bethesda hate train is way too well entrenched.

[-] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Why defend Bethesda? They ain't your friend. You get nothing out of it.

[-] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Because I don't think they're as shitty as people claim? And I understand that Bethesda isn't just a shitty group of corporate managers, but also a team of people who have devoted their lives to these franchises.

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

They put the intro guy at the entrance to cydonia, the only way to avoid it is dont upgrade to the latest patch.

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com -1 points 5 months ago

The intro guy to the second quest? Or the intro to the bounty quest framework?

[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

Intro to the questline. And it's not a framework, it's a questline.

[-] dragThruGardenPlz@midwest.social 28 points 5 months ago

[-] natecox@programming.dev 27 points 5 months ago

Damn, I was just thinking of giving SF another shot. Guess it wasn’t meant to be.

[+] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee -37 points 5 months ago

aw man, cant play this game it has optional paid content 😔

[-] natecox@programming.dev 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It’s funny how people will chant “vote with your wallet” but when someone votes against business practices they don’t agree with using their wallet they’re all surprised pikachu about it.

Charging per quest in a micro transaction scheme (which isn’t really micro at a $10 entry fee) is shitty and I don’t want to support it by pumping their gameplay numbers right after announcing it.

[+] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee -17 points 5 months ago

i agree. i also never picked up cyberpunk because of the same reason. also rock band or guitar hero for its hiding content behind paywalls. i just stop playing 99% of games actually

[-] natecox@programming.dev 15 points 5 months ago

Fun fact: when you need to resort to hyperbole it’s a good indicator that your position may not have merit.

[-] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

After the shit show of a release that was starfield, yeah, I'll avoid playing the game with optional paid content that reeks of greed.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

You deserve the downvotes here, just wanted to make that clear.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee -2 points 5 months ago

why? please explain the reasoning

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

No.

[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee -2 points 5 months ago

i knew it. you had no reason. you just felt like being an asshole. i hope it brightened your day to post such a pointless comment 😃

[-] thessnake03@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I just want that sense of pride and accomplishment

[+] Inui@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There was also one where you stumble upon a thing that crashed from space and its this whole totally-not-superman story, and it starts just fine, but the next step involved a NPC literally telling you to buy the DLC to continue.

in two seperate playthroughs, this was the among the first things I encountered in the game.

Which is why I never bought any DA:O DLC, and never bought any of the subsequent titles. because fuck. that. shit

[+] tal@lemmy.today -7 points 5 months ago

I mean, that's basically just paid DLC, and I'm not complaining about there being paid DLC for the Fallout series and Skyrim. I'm fine with content being sold.

But I would like the value to be reasonable. A lot of game developers that sell content in small chunks sell a pretty minimal amount of content for pretty significant prices.