There are a lot of negative reviews floating around on Steam
Over two months after the RPG’s initial release, Bethesda is still responding to individual negative Starfield reviews on Steam. A few months after its release, Starfield received a ‘Mixed’ overall user review rating on Steam, with some players dubbing it “Bethesda’s most mediocre game to date.” Bethesda is now taking matters into its own hands and responding to some of the negative reviews.
Bethesda’s community service team is responding to individual Starfield user reviews on Steam by praising the game, as first pointed out by the Twitter user below. “Starfield is an RPG with hundreds of hours of quests to complete and characters to meet,” reads one developer review in response to a negative user review after nearly 30 hours of play.
“While there may be loading screens in between fast travelling, just consider the amount of data for the expansive gameplay that is procedurally generated to load flawlessly in under 3 seconds,” they continued saying. “We believe that shortcoming will not hinder our players from getting lost in the world we created.”
“Given the immense size of Starfield, we felt it made more sense to be able to use your Grav Drive to jump to other solar systems,” another Bethesda response to a user who writes “unpleasant to play.” The developers added that the “intention of Starfield’s exploration is to evoke a feeling of smallness in players and make you feel overwhelmed.”
According to another user, Starfield is a “step back” for Bethesda and “falls flat” in almost every department. “Quests were made to be completed in several ways. You get to decide who lives and who dies at crucial points of the story, as well as how to go about meeting any given objective, The Bethesda community team responds to the review.
The most recent Bethesda response appears to have been published earlier today, on November 28. According to our observations, the response to negative reviews has been ongoing throughout November. It’s a nearly unprecedented move, certainly one I’ve never seen for a game of this size, and it doesn’t appear to be well-received