Starfield Has Been Played by 13 Million Players | Average Playtime per Player is 40 Hours
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No data on how many hours were wasted on loading screens?
I spent 10h playing this game and I regret all of it, absolute worthless and critics and public opinion were way too kind to this game if anything.
I spent 10h playing this game and I regret all of it, absolute worthless and critics and public opinion were way too kind to this game if anything.
I'd feel sorry for anyone with such poor game selection that they need to put that kind of time into Starfield, but Xbots don't deserve sympathy.
I have a REAL hard time believing that "average time" lol. Unless there are players that are such extreme outliers they are skewing the data.
I finished the game in like 25 hours and did enough side content to suit me. I even tried a little new game+ to see what it was all about before packing it up for good.
Also logging into the xbox site and looking at the achievements ... only 33% of players have reached level 10. So that means The majority of people aren't playing the game that long, but the average play time is more than well enough to complete it? Certainly to get to level 10 and beyond.
None of that adds up.
I finished the game in like 25 hours and did enough side content to suit me. I even tried a little new game+ to see what it was all about before packing it up for good.
Also logging into the xbox site and looking at the achievements ... only 33% of players have reached level 10. So that means The majority of people aren't playing the game that long, but the average play time is more than well enough to complete it? Certainly to get to level 10 and beyond.
None of that adds up.
So successful that Bethesda felt the need to personally go and argue with people who left negative Steam reviews. And Emil P. cried on Twitter because people don't understand how hard it is to make games. More useless metrics and future updates (which will likely cause more technical problems as is usual for Bethesda) aren't going to change anyone's mind about this game. Extreme Xbox fans will still defend it and everyone else will keep not playing it.
As a small aside, it's amusing to see how deciding not to release on PS has turned out. MS lost an estimated 10 million sales and we were saved from buying a thoroughly mediocre game. Win-win, lol.
As a small aside, it's amusing to see how deciding not to release on PS has turned out. MS lost an estimated 10 million sales and we were saved from buying a thoroughly mediocre game. Win-win, lol.
I'm not sure I believe it either. I'm reminded of when they put out the picture post-release with all the critic scores - and one of the scores was a perfect 5/5 from an organization that had not completed their review. The eventual released review was 6/10. I wish I could remember the name of the organization, but maybe someone else can. Point is I don't believe they're above exaggerating/lying here - that goes for MS and Bethesda.
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I wonder how many millions of hours sitting in front of load screens.
It's a Besthesda RPG, folks that like their games, or might want to like the game are going to play a metric ton of it. Of course there's a bunch of long hours played.
Just at the Steam page and looking at the reviews that are considered "most helpful in the last 30 days"
You've got reviews with hours played : 133 hours, 262 hours, 188 hours, 288 hours, 291 hours, etc...
I believe the data, but like all PR statements about engagements it's all going to be in the most positive light.
Nobody is going to go into the nitty gritty of how many people play from 1-10 hours, 11-20 hours, and so on.
People drop games quite often, even the most well received games are like that.
40 hours is terrible for a game that Xbox fanboys brag about having so much content. 100%ing GoW Ragnarok took me almost 70 hours and that’s a linear game.
I can't fathom the level of brain damage needed to sink thousands of hours into a Bethesda shitfest.
I think 40h is extremely impressive given how boring this game is, I just don't believe this stat is true.
I hate it when they give us incomplete stats, they forget to add this important one as well for some reason.
Ahh yes.
Sony: We sold 50 million consoles.
MS: Useless metrics go!
Allow me to translate corporate bs.
"Not even half of our active GP players played the game, let alone finished or bought it. Also, here's a fake statistic about average play time, easily discredited by looking at Xbox achievements, because only 33% of players reached level 10. Which is just a few hours in."
I have about 51 hours in the game. Finished the main story, all factions, one companion full quest and quite a few side activities. Meanwhile, only about 20% of people joined a faction at all.
Nice try, MS.
Sony: We sold 50 million consoles.
MS: Useless metrics go!
Allow me to translate corporate bs.
"Not even half of our active GP players played the game, let alone finished or bought it. Also, here's a fake statistic about average play time, easily discredited by looking at Xbox achievements, because only 33% of players reached level 10. Which is just a few hours in."
I have about 51 hours in the game. Finished the main story, all factions, one companion full quest and quite a few side activities. Meanwhile, only about 20% of people joined a faction at all.
Nice try, MS.
Oh, of course there are people who are going to have those kinds of hours in it, but the number of them required when most of the people playing it aren't even getting to level 10 ... seems like it wouldn't happen. I could be wrong, but I dont think people here and there would cut it. It would have to be a solid number of people, and the game just isn't popular (which the achievement stats back up IMO). I have hard a hard time believing the average is 40 hours, when the average is also for most people to not play very much. Like I said, I played it for 25 hours and completed the main quest along with some side quest stuff.
So yeah, not really buying it.
Snails pace. Terrible imo. Only half of the reported 25 million users (fake non active users bullshit number).
Maybe if they went f2p they could’ve hit 20 million like halo “did.”
Gamepass not moving subs or users. Unsustainable.