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by Night_Thastus 377 days ago
Just because you enjoy it doesn't mean the game doesn't have problems, or it didn't have a negative affect on BGS's image. The reviews vary location to location, but on Steam it's at 55%. That's unfathomably bad for a Bethesda open-world RPG title.

A lot of people bought Starfield because it was a Bethesda game. A lot of those people will re-consider the next time such a game comes out.

Even years later, people are willing to put up with all of Skyrim's jank, bugs, performance problems, terrible animations and visuals, bad story and the rest because the core gameplay loop of exploration is so strong. It carries the entire game.

Starfield is missing that core that holds it together.

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> Just because you enjoy it doesn't mean the game doesn't have problems, or it didn't have a negative affect on BGS's image

All of their games have a negative effect on BGS’s image. There’s no company that has more people complaining about their games. It’s going to take a whole lot more than a single terrible game to get people to stop buying them.

I disagree. None have been as negative, except FO76.

Plus - competition is way fiercer recently, and standards have risen.