Starfield Is Getting Review Bombed (Again)

It’s funny that people like this always paint themselves as wise visionaries who see truths others can’t. It’s like okay dude it doesn’t take a genius to guess that they’ll monetize the game in various ways.

Know a great way to send a message to Bethesda to stop doing this?

Don't pay for anything extra.

Review bombing implies negative reviews that have nothing to do with the game itself, like if there's a controversy regarding one of the developers. These reviews deal with the game's content, so it's not review bombing.

@GamingFan4Lyf vote with your wallet

you cant have your cake and eat it

At the end of the day don’t modders deserve to get paid?

For me I have two issues with starfields "creations"

1. Mixing creations and mods is messy in the UI.
2. Unlike creations in Fallout and Skyrim there isn't a minium level of quality and it seems only the Bethesda made stuff doesn't disable achievements (whereas both skyrim and Fallout it's all paid creations was treated as DLC).

(I'm not against creations in their current form with modders having to opt in and not just Bethesda going "that costs now" and that they can't port existing free mods.)

The problem here really is that then id have to play Starfield.

@RadioHedgeFund no. They take on the projects with an understanding that they are not getting paid.

@vrubayka yes, it is. These are largely "reviews" from people that have not played the content yet. Based on conjecture. They are leaving negative reviews based on a decision they disagree with.

@LikelySatan The content is locked behind an MTX paywall. Nothing wrong with punishing the publisher with negative reviews for such a decision.

I swear gamers are just angry about everything.

I wonder the kind of lives these cry babies live

@Ryu_Niiyama A certain entitled, generation of them are 😏

It's probably just a pointless mission nothing to it no need to be to upset the game was painfully boring anyway I won't be jumping back on this anytime soon it was a waste of time could of had another elder scrolls out instead of starfield

I don’t know. Either you think something is worth paying for, or you don’t. Nobody’s forcing anyone to shell out for something they don’t want to pay for, and if enough people feel strongly enough about not paying, then Bethesda will get the message. I don’t really have a problem with it, for the above reason.

I don’t expect to endlessly get new features or content for free, but if I don’t think it’s worth paying for then I won’t pay the extra for it.

I don't see the problem here. When I downloaded it the game gave me 1000 credits. And if I don't want to use them on that quest I wont. Personally I'm saving it for something in the future.

How do people have time to complain so much? If you don't like it, don't buy it.

With that being said, I am excited to see what modders will do with the game.

@cburg I mean…you have time to complain here about people complaining. Doesn’t take much!

So people are complaining because they have to pay for other people work? And you can still play on pc and get most mods for free, well on consoles you have to pay make your choices...

@BBB i cant wait for some Halo mods. Mostly weapons and chief's armor but some crazy mod about the flood would also be great!

Can you already download the Star Wars mods on Xbox?? I didnt see anything like that when I updated on my Series X yesterday

I never had a problem with Creation Club, personally, as if you like it then cool, but if you don't like it then it is very easy to ignore. I will say that Creation Club was very nice for PS4 players of Fallout 4 whose mod options were otherwise limited to those with vanilla assets only (although of course I will not at all argue that the Creation Club content was very overpriced across the board).

@Ver then they should get a job doing the things they do. An overwhelming number of them already have a dev gig.
I come from Doom mods. The people that do the best of those make something like Selaco, and sell it. Others don't want to sell it, they just make fun mods.
But okay, let's play. Do you know what "The Forgotten City" is? A Skyrim mod that became a full priced game. Cause that's where the devs found themselves. With a whole ass new game. "Better trees and camps" probably doesn't feel the same way.
It's ironic AF that Bethesda especially do not embrace the hacker ethic that made/makes them. Modders practically finish their games for them, and now they outright endorse paying them to do it.

@vrubayka hey, if that's your neckbearded life, we'd all appreciate it if you just screamed at your body pillow. Here I was thinking you just said "it wasn't review bombed, akshoolee."

@Ricky-Spanish Apparently the paid quest had a weapon attached to it.

I'm just going ignore it all and wait for a couple months after shattered space, see if I actually find any thing they did redeemable, if not well oh well

@RetroMan71 I was not singling out a generation. Gamers haven’t changed much in the 35 years I have been gaming. And they span multiple generations.

@Ryu_Niiyama True... In my early days of gaming how-ever, when there was no internet, you obviously didn't frequent websites, just gaming magazines. So I was never exposed to all the politics and negativity.

Why is anyone surprised by this? Bethesda is afterall the king of $5 horse armor.

As a gamer (and general consumer) I'm EXTREMELY tired of being nickel and dimed. Usually am very anti review bombing. But I think this instance is justified.

Gamers are finally speaking up. Developers would very smart to pay heed to this and change their greed and business practices.

@Ryu_Niiyama Nope. Just being taken advantage of, disrespected, used, nickel and dimed, and extorted.

@BIG3 Completely disagree. And I see the problem.

Bethesda is basically using the drug dealer business model. Give 'em some free stuff. Get them hooked. Then begin to sell overpriced product.

@RetroMan71 "A certain entitled, generation of them are 😏"

Pretty sure in the 80s & 90s we didn't have this extreme publisher greed of mtx, battle passes, season passes and every little thing section off and sold back to us. Everything was unlocked in the full game so there was no need to cry and act entitled 😒

@GuyinPA75 everybody loves their drug dealer, no?

Pretty slimey of you ask me

It deserves being review bombed just for being pure cringe. Oh and it’s a bad game.

I support "review bombing" unless it's the metacritic user reviews where fanboys vote down the other platforms games for no reason. Steam review bombs usually are not true review bombs as they are actually owners of the game addressing an actual complaint with the game. This and the recent heckdivers 2 were legitimate concerns being voiced so much that it formed a trend. I like gamers having this kind of power, it actually benefits the game longterm.

Personally I don't mind paid mods but I like to see feedback from actual owners of the game instead of Twitter/reddit/metacritic where you know half of the complainers haven't played a second of the game.

i wish they made fallout 5 instead. i bet bethesda wishes too. this is all on todd.

@LikelySatan you're not smart and not funny, never forget that

@vrubayka can you repeat that? I forgot what you said.
As dumb and humorless as I am, my memory is worse.
Seriously. Ya' took that in stride! I didn't even remember talking to you.
But here's a fat "like" for your comment. Hope it gets you through whatever you are dealing with.
Also YOU are not punctual. And you smack your lips. Take that.

I've noticed that every time players express their honest displeasure with the product, the gaming media sites call it a "bombing" and a "terror attack" on the poor 2 trillion dollar indie startup known as Microsoft.