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\n\t\tStarfield is two years old today (Bethesda)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tStarfield is two years old today (Bethesda)<\/p>\n
A reader marks the second anniversary of Starfield<\/a> and argues that Bethesda<\/a> should stop making DLC for it and instead follow Sony<\/a>\u2019s lead with Concord.<\/p>\n If this feature is shown on Saturday, September 6 then Starfield will be exactly two years old<\/a>. However, I don\u2019t imagine many people will be celebrating that with any excitement. I\u2019m not even sure if Bethesda will acknowledge it [they did, with the tweet below, which seems to tease something called \u2018Team Armada\u2019 \u2013 GC].<\/p>\n Starfield has become one of the most famous failures of this generation, although it\u2019s not awful, not like something like MindsEye<\/a>. It\u2019s just very disappointing and Bethesda made things worse by acting like jerks about it even before it came out \u2013 especially when they didn\u2019t let British websites review it<\/a> ahead of time.<\/p>\n This was the first proper Bethesda game since Fallout<\/a> 4 and the first new IP for over a decade, so a lot of people were really excited about it, me included. But instead of Skyrim<\/a> in space what we got was a very old-fashioned action role-player that removed all the best things about Bethesda games and replaced it with bland, randomly-generated worlds and lots and lots of menus.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not going to go over all the failings of Starfield now, because they\u2019ve been talked about enough. Instead, what I want to talk about is how games are never allowed to be forgotten. Now, in some cases this is a good thing, when it\u2019s an obscure retro game you want to see brought back into the limelight. But in other cases, when it\u2019s a franchise dragged out for decades, it\u2019s a bad thing.<\/p>\n This is a particular problem because now that games are so expensive and time-consuming to make it means there\u2019s no time for anything else. In days gone past it wouldn\u2019t matter that Ubisoft<\/a> kept making Assassin\u2019s Creed games or Activision<\/a> Call Of Duty, because they at least made other things as well. But now they don\u2019t. It\u2019s just those same one or two franchises from every publisher from now until the end of time.<\/p>\n There\u2019s also the idea that if a game is a failure it can be redeemed with patches and updates, which often happens with online multiplayer games, although I think the best example is No Man\u2019s Sky \u2013 which was a disaster at launch but is now well respected. Although I have to agree with those that say it\u2019s still not actually much fun and I\u2019d rather the developer had just given up and made something else.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\tExpert, exclusive gaming analysis\t\t\t<\/p>\n Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter<\/a> for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning.<\/p>\n I also wish Bethesda had done that with Starfield but they\u2019re a proud developer and you can tell they don\u2019t want to admit it was a failure. So now they\u2019ve got to waste the next several years making DLC for a game no one likes. Starfield is two years old and we\u2019ve still only had one expansion (which was awful) and it doesn\u2019t look like the second is even going to come out this year.<\/p>\n The Elder Scrolls 6 is still years away and Fallout 5 is so far off it\u2019s not even worth thinking about, and yet Bethesda are going to waste even more time in a hopeless attempt to save Starfield\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n Now consider that other big sci-fi flop of recent years: Concord. Sony famously shut it down after just two weeks, when it was obvious nobody liked it and\u2026 that was it. No slow, dragged out death (as happened with fellow live service game Suicide Squad) and no wasted time or resources on trying to pretend to themselves that the game could be saved.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, Sony did shut down the developer, which I don\u2019t approve of, although I suppose it\u2019s not surprising. What I would\u2019ve preferred is that Sony just killed the game and had them make something else. Either way, people will soon forget all about Concord, if they haven\u2019t already, and it won\u2019t be a blemish on Sony\u2019s name.<\/p>\n Starfield is just going to chug on forever and Bethesda will never admit it was a failure, which is frustrating when it means it will slow down work on the games people actually care about.<\/p>\n By reader Zeiss<\/p>\n \t\t The reader\u2019s features do not necessarily represent the views of GameCentral or Metro.<\/p>\n You can submit your own 500 to 600-word reader feature at any time, which if used will be published in the next appropriate weekend slot. Just contact us at gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a> or use our Submit Stuff page<\/a> and you won\u2019t need to send an email.<\/p>\n Arrow Arrow Arrow![\"Starfield](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SEI_261172437-efd2.jpg\")
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