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Don't even bother with that. Review copies are being sent out the same day that early access opens up. Bethesda must be real fucking confident about the game.
Starfield - Bethesda's new space IP: will probably be full of fun and easily trackable bugs
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Don't even bother with that. Review copies are being sent out the same day that early access opens up. Bethesda must be real fucking confident about the game.
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I fucking hate whoever Bethesda has hired to put their games in the Brazilian market. Fuckers are hard at work making sure no BRs ever buy it. For a good few years now, since 2019 or so I believe, they have been using a different standard to convert the prices.
Starfield basic edition is 300 BRL, and the "digital premium" is 430. These are the same prices they would charge for a physical copy on a store for consoles, which makes no sense. As if I wasn't disinterested enough on it. Activation has a similar absurd pricing. Jesus so does EA apparently. Fromsoft at least cut us some slack Elden Ring is 250.
Starfield basic edition is 300 BRL, and the "digital premium" is 430. These are the same prices they would charge for a physical copy on a store for consoles, which makes no sense. As if I wasn't disinterested enough on it. Activation has a similar absurd pricing. Jesus so does EA apparently. Fromsoft at least cut us some slack Elden Ring is 250.
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I did, and I expect my fellow gamers to do the same. We need to support indie game developpers.
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300/430 Brazil Bux comes out to ~60/90 USD which is somewhat on pay with the Amerifat pricing but I'm assuming the spending power of the average Brazilian is less, ergo the bewilderment at the localized pricing scheme. What's the average price of a AAA game for reference? The 250 for Elden Ring?
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That is the price they are going for today, but a few years back it wasn't so. The price has really risen after the coof happened, which somewhat makes sense since the economic chaos of the pandemic made the BRL lose a lot of value and it went from about 3BRL to 1USD to 5BRL to 1USD with it even getting as bad as 6BRL some times.
However that isn't that much of a excuse because this huge increase has been going since before the coof and it has also been pushed by some obvious desire to suck more money by charging the same for digital downloads as the physical copies, which is retarded because the profit margins for digital only are much larger due to lack of need of dealing with transport and delivery. It used to be that most things on Steam used a simple 1-to-2 conversion of doubling the number for the local price so a 60 USD game would be 120 BRL before 2018 and such.
It is also interesting that a lot of smaller games are still using that metric to sell their stuff, and some publishers that have started charging so much still have backlogs on the old price. Bethesda for example has re-priced Skyrim to be 160 but Doom 2016 and Fallout 4 are both 99 which is weird to see. It's quite interesting, CD Projeckt Red for example is asking for 199 on CP2077 which seems to be a compromise between old and new prices, same with the Turks behind Mount and Blade II. Meanwhile EA is asking for 300 as well on their shit which feels even more egregious and insane than Starfield because holy fucking shit really nigger 300 for fucking FIFA 2023? I can just get Bomba Patch for 30 if I want to pay instead of pirate it and it will be much better fuck right off.
However that isn't that much of a excuse because this huge increase has been going since before the coof and it has also been pushed by some obvious desire to suck more money by charging the same for digital downloads as the physical copies, which is retarded because the profit margins for digital only are much larger due to lack of need of dealing with transport and delivery. It used to be that most things on Steam used a simple 1-to-2 conversion of doubling the number for the local price so a 60 USD game would be 120 BRL before 2018 and such.
It is also interesting that a lot of smaller games are still using that metric to sell their stuff, and some publishers that have started charging so much still have backlogs on the old price. Bethesda for example has re-priced Skyrim to be 160 but Doom 2016 and Fallout 4 are both 99 which is weird to see. It's quite interesting, CD Projeckt Red for example is asking for 199 on CP2077 which seems to be a compromise between old and new prices, same with the Turks behind Mount and Blade II. Meanwhile EA is asking for 300 as well on their shit which feels even more egregious and insane than Starfield because holy fucking shit really nigger 300 for fucking FIFA 2023? I can just get Bomba Patch for 30 if I want to pay instead of pirate it and it will be much better fuck right off.
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normies will it that shit up, star citizen is LE MEME FRAUD GAME and NMS is LE MEME LIAR GAME (even tho starfield's is todd "sweet little lies" howard's baby, but normalfags gotta norm).
what I wonder is it's staying power tho, fantasy is always easier to get behind, even if it's just fantasy vikings. I doubt starfield is a gonna be a 10/10 game (it's still bethesda after all) and as you said scifi has way more autists and sexmods still gonna look more attractive in skyrim than starfield.
I just came out of a NMS binge, because they still constantly update the game and do expeditions, I don't see bethesda doing that with starfield, so the other question is how much are people gonna get out of vanilla starfield. it won't have the autism of the X games, it won't have the alien-fucking like bioware games, all I see is a more grounded NMS without the colors and the jank that makes it both annoying and endearing.
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Especially considering as Bethesda "improves" their game tech they keep breaking a lot of the hacks that are used in Skyrim to make the game better, for example the hack that let you see your own body when looking down in first person in Skyrim that got killed by the camera fixes they did for Fallout 4. Kind of like when Uwe Boll improved his craft and now instead of being funny bad trash fires his movies are just boring trash and also the tax shit he was using to make money no longer works.
Bethesda games aren't even bad and broken enough to be fun anymore, they're just sad cash grabs shitting on the modders who made their shit worth picking up in the first place.
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This game looks so spectacularly mediocre that it's making me wish it was a dumpster fire instead. This game seems so bland that it's almost camouflaged, at least Fallout 76 was fun to laugh at.
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Todd was talking a little bit how he wants this to be a ten year game, like Skyrim kinda is with having all the shitty creation club content trickle out. Granted, it's not much, but looking back Bethesda's half-assed experimental feature in X game was always more fleshed out in X+1 game. Fucking shame that the two big things Starfield's going to push are paid mods and making loading screens obnoxious as possible.
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Their proposed setup of "take handmade content and slap it on a rando procedural planet" could stand them very well for plugging in shitloads of additional content over time. They could just make fifty more pirate bases or whatnot and add them to the pool of spawnable events to be added onto various planets. The question is whether they'll bother to do it, because Bethesda.
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There is also a question of how far they might take procedural generation. The whole reason Bethesda games got their big reputation was because of the hand crafted worlds. Even when the writing was going down the drain they could keep making the world good (Fallout 4 main quest is worse than fanfic level garbage at points but the actual game is still fun) but now they are moving away from that and I simply do not have faith on Todd "It Just Works" Howard to pull it off.
Doesn't help that the little we have heard of the actual plot seem painfully generic and bland.
Doesn't help that the little we have heard of the actual plot seem painfully generic and bland.
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I'm not sure if it will be on that level. Probably more like No Man's Sky stuff.
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I'd literally have to have almost zero content to be *that* bad.
I really feel like people forget how bad these shitty launches actually were after two years. No Man's Sky was fucking *awful*.
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They seem to be going for the same approach with procedural generated planets and stuff, so I'm starting to wonder.
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One thing Starfield has in its favor regarding launch is it's not online, so no shitshow with the servers dying under strain.
I'm kinda looking forward to it coming out; it won't be a masterpiece but I've never not enjoyed dicking around in a Bethesda game for a while.
I'm kinda looking forward to it coming out; it won't be a masterpiece but I've never not enjoyed dicking around in a Bethesda game for a while.
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I sure fucking hope not
Looking around it seems the only online component is that Creation Club garbage, should be fine
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Will it be better than Outer Worlds? I think it will be interesting to compare the two once Starfield comes out.
OW completely lacked in the Bethesda "feel" and atmosphere that makes most Bethesda games good despite their problems. So I'll be surprised if I play this game less than I did OW.
OW completely lacked in the Bethesda "feel" and atmosphere that makes most Bethesda games good despite their problems. So I'll be surprised if I play this game less than I did OW.