Bethesda Is Charging $7 For A New Starfield Mission, And Players Are Upset

The company that introduced horse armor is charging horrendous prices for small DLC?

Seven dollars to loading screen to your ship, watch an animation of your character sitting down, loading screen to space, loading screen to the system it's in, Dodge some pirates, loading screen to the surface, hop along the completely barren landscape to go to a copy pasted outpost, loading screen back to your ship?

I feel like you could get all of the value of that dlc by just playing a mission over again.

Players could like stop paying for it... such an easy, low cost solution...

Fallout 5 is going to suck

But it'll actually cost players $10 because they must purchase 1,000 Starfield creation credits to afford it.

At first, I read this as if you needed to ingest a verification can before you're allowed to make a purchase. But alas, it is the usual shit where you have to buy their fake money.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

We've known what Bethesda is for years.

It began with horse armour....

There are Starfield players?

There's people playing Strarfield to get upset in the first place?

How does that horrible game even have players?

Who cares? The community will have player made expansions in a year that will likely be free and of higher quality.

Regardless, BGS is a shell of its former self. Whenever I see people clamoring for TES 6 I just scratch my head and ask why?

Starfield was the final straw for me, I will never get excited for another Bethesda game again. They've shown that they refuse to truly shake up their game design. When people asked if Starfield would have the same magic as FO3 or older TES games, they said, "it'll have the same DNA." I assumed that meant it'd have fun exploration and interesting quests. While it has some decent quests, the exploration is utterly tedious and just unfun. I truly wish they'd had just focused on fleshing out 2 or 3 planets in one solar system, maybe some instanced, hand-crafted dungeons/whatever outside of it. I have zero interest in exploring proc gen worlds, it's not that fun in No Man's Sky and it's not fun here. At least with NMS, it's all relatively seamless.

I swear gamers have the memory of a gnat. How many times has Bethesda pulled shit like this and people continue to support them? no one remembers the Horse armor all the way back in Oblivion? no one remembers the Skyrim paid mods in 2015? hell can't even remember the SKYRIM PAID MODS IN DEC OF 2023!

This isn't an outrage and no one should be upset AT Bethesda over this, but disappointed and upset with yourselves for yet again falling for their constant desire to nickel and dime their playerbase.

They're selling a single quest as dlc? I mean if you going to do dlc then at least make a full expansion.

$500 for a Krabby Patty?

With cheese Mr. Squidward, with cheese.

Why are we surprised? They were the ones who pioneered the DLC microtrans model. I would legitimately have been more surprised if this headline were the converse statement.

Starfield could have been a way better game if all they did was fuck it up like 45% less. They could have alternatively just delivered on their promises of making the game easy to mod and let the community handle the rest but they fucked that up too. Only the most dedicated of Starfield fan would have the patience to sit down and do all the shit it takes to add a new quest for example. Iirc even Skyrim came with a mod editor with ui that was easy to understand. Right now all we have is a community xedit project that's somehow even harder to run on Linux than Starfield is.

It should be standard practice for Bethesda games to wait for a game of the year edition (or whatever they want to call it) then wait for a steam sale on that.

Is repetitive buying of Bethesda games a new kind of litmus test for stupidity? I mean they do this shit constantly and people are still surprised when it happens. Did people really forget horse armor they tried to sell? Or forget about items that were free in Fallout 4, but had to be purchased in 76? It's Bethesda and only one thing Todd dreams about is scamming another dollar from their fans.

Bethesda announced that players could download a new series of missions for a group known as the Track Alliance. The problem is that The Vulture is the second mission in the Tracker Alliance, and it costs $7 to buy. But it'll actually cost players $10 because they must purchase 1,000 Starfield creation credits to afford it.

So they put the first mission out for free, but it turns out the first mission was a fucking advertisement. I remember being super pissed when Dragon Age pulled this shit.

And of course they pull the classic cost-obfuscation trick because it would just be far too convenient to just be able to buy a DLC for actual money and then download it.

So some people are actually playing starfield?

Ah, so that's why it was lacking content.

Lmao. They are basically speedrunning enshittification% at this point.

It's got more content than horse armor though. Totally worth it. ^/s

Not surprised... just upset.

Company that scammed players scams players, more at 7.

I will always see Chloe Grace Moretz on the cover of Starfield.

Is it good though

Bethesda has chosen to make their shit exclusive to a console that is outsold by its completion 2:1.

They’re not exactly the bastions of good ideas.

Has Bethesda actually released a decent game since Daggerfall?

Honestly I don't care, that's a pretty reasonable price compared to the lot of the content sold for AAA games. This isn't even noteworthy in 2024