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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)
submitted 11 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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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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[-] peter@feddit.uk 26 points 11 months ago

This is why we only ever get PR responses to anything that happens instead of actual information or explanations.

[-] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's better than arguing with the customer.

Simple explanations like "we felt we were under X constraints" or "our engine didn't handle the loading times as well as we had hoped" would be just fine.

Instead, they just seem to be telling the players they're wrong for disagreeing with many of the design decisions made

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