This is just common sense, my dude. Of course, people who actually paid for Starfield(a minority, since most people refunded it and/or played it on Gamepass and un-installed it) wouldn't know any common sense.
I’m sure you have a source for this, otherwise you’re just blowing hot air out your ass because of personal grudges over obsidian 10 years ago.
$400 million budget with marketing and under 3 million copies sold at full retail. Even 4 million at full retail is likely not enough when you factor in the cut that Steam and physical retailers take. I honestly don't see how this game was profitable. Game Pass absolutely cannibalized the sales and its DLC seems to be dead already. And it being some big system seller and exclusive was laughable.
How many people do you know that still play this game? Talk about it? How many content creators are actively making content for the game?
Your points are purely anecdotal and vibes based, theres no proof, it’s wishful thinking, there’s more evidence for it being financially successful than not.
I can guarantee you that you're the only person on the internet right now giving this much of a shit about Starfield, aside from maybe some trannies who got way too invested into it emotionally.
you’re the only gimp still shilling the diarrhoea stain that was the outer worlds, guess that makes us even
I'll admit it was more financially successful than I knew, I'm not sure why I thought it did so poorly. I stand by my original point though regarding DLC in that I think they will be less and less inclined to make proper DLC now they see the huge potential in online whalebux.
You're looking at this statistic, perhaps reposted in some other form I presume? I've seen this one before and it's not that rosy. The exact number of sales is irrelevant in the face of a revenue figure so let's assume that's accurate and move on. Disregarding Valve's 30% cut, let's also assume that Xbox sales are similar, though considering gamepass' prevalence, I doubt they are. That's under $500m in revenue at best for a game that took like seven years and presumably somewhere in the ballpark of $400m to make (as is typical of the rest of these high profile stinkers from this past year) and that's being conservative. FO4 sold 12 million copies on launch day and was made for a fraction of the budget. Microsoft bought Bethesda for those numbers, not whatever the hell Starfield put up. Starfield probably made some money but it can't have been that much. Like I said, if it was a knockout, we'd know.
I never claimed it was a knockout success (and it never would have been because of gamepass cannibalisation) just that at the end of the day it made some money at the very least, some people seem desperate to paint it as an enormous disastrous bomb that will kill Bethesda but there’s no indication of that.
We get it, you like Outer Worlds. Can you stop shilling the game now? Almost every post you make in here and the fallout thread is "Starfield / Fallout sucks and OW is so much better guys"
Reminds me of the bitter cope surrounding Diablo 4. Made over a billion dollars without factoring in microtransactions, but nooooo it was le heckin' failure Chud! None of my friends updoot it in conversation!
Streamers I watch who will replay Skyrim and Fallout 3 or 4 once a year did a playthrough of Starfield and never mentioned it again. They didn’t even play Shattered Space.
Yup, not easy having a patrician taste this good but I try!
Did todd fuck your girlfriend or something? No other way I could reasonably explain someone being this buttmad about a mid space game.
It’s the Internet. Everyone has to act like anything shit is Sonic with blue arms and they’re Chris Chan.
