Damn, I was just thinking of giving SF another shot. Guess it wasn’t meant to be.
Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
https://www.vg247.com/starfield-update-creation-club-bounty-hunting-quest
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natecox@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
aw man, cant play this game it has optional paid content 😔
natecox@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
It’s funny how people will chant “vote with your wallet” but when someone votes against business practices they don’t agree with using their wallet they’re all surprised pikachu about it.
Charging per quest in a micro transaction scheme (which isn’t really micro at all $10 entry fee) is shitty and I don’t want to support it by pumping their gameplay numbers right after announcing it.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
After the shit show of a release that was starfield, yeah, I’ll avoid playing the game with optional paid content that reeks of greed.
thessnake03@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I just want that sense of pride and accomplishment
dragThruGardenPlz@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Inui@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
There was a quest like this in the original Dragon Age. A dwarf merchant in your camp who told you about a quest but then the game said you had to buy the DLC to complete it.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There was also one where you stumble upon a thing that crashed from space and its this whole totally-not-superman story, and it starts just fine, but the next step involved buying a DLC.
in two seperate playthroughs, this was the among the first things I encountered in the game.
Which is why I never bought any DA:O DLC, and never bought any of the subsequent titles. because fuck. that. shit
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Its worse than that. They added an entire questline, gave you the first quest, and then charged 7 dollars per quest!
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Howards gone off the rails. He’s a corpo hack. Always was, but now he can shed the leather jacket and McDuck dive into his pool of Creation Coins with no shame.
off_brand_@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
$7, but you a only spend $10 at a time! It ain’t gonna be 10 quests or 5 quests. It’s gonna be like 3 or six so you’ll be left with $9 in coins and feel like you’re wasting cash if you don’t spend another $10 to buy some other creation club shit.
God I fucking hate the premium currency tactic.
Coasting0942@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
If I’m reading it right, it’s a quest framework and one quest is free, the other is paid. So it sounds like we’ll be able to completely ignore the quest if you never visit CC content in the first place.
For free mod purposes, sounds like it should be easier for mod makers to create bounty hunting quests.
Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes you’re reading it perfectly, Bethesda as usual actually isn’t being as money hungry as they could’ve.
People still gonna hate though, that Starfield/Bethesda hate train is way too well entrenched.
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
They put the intro guy at the entrance to cydonia, the only way to avoid it is dont upgrade to the latest patch.
cholesterol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s the total price, then?
Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Who knows? It’s an early access paid mod, meaning they only did the first two quests, and promised more.