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Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is" (www.gamesradar.com)
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apparently this is in response to a few threads on Reddit flaming Starfield—in general, it's been rather interesting to see Bethesda take what i can only describe as a "try to debate Starfield to popularity" approach with the game's skeptics in the past month or two. not entirely sure it's a winning strategy, personally.

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[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gotta love Bethesda going all "You think you want it, but you really don't." Like Blizzard back in the days.

I have to admit, I find the entire thing immensely entertaining.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What game did Blizzard try this with? I'm just too ignorant about their games beyond Warcraft and Diablo, or was it that WoW add-on that killed WoW popularity back in the days?

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was about WoW Classic. Here's the clip

But in the end WoW Classic did indeed become a thing.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, they were right about knowing better, after all 😉

I actually think that this is a marketing fallacy some (?) big corporations use to create a self fulfilling prophecy of what people want. Wery rarely is it really a novel thing that just requires users to understand how good it is, very often it's just gaslighting

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago

In Bethesdas case, they've been going down this road for a while now and have just refused to listened to any criticism along the way.

Eventually that turned into F76 and Starfield.

The fact that they are telling people "they are wrong for finding the game boring" is funny. But that Beth won't learn anything from this is just sad.