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Achievement % stats are so comically skewed by various factors that they mean basically nothing. There's an achievement in Minecraft for literally just opening your inventory for the first time but only 60% of Xbox players have it.
There’s an achievement in Minecraft for literally just opening your inventory for the first time but only 60% of Xbox players have it.
12,7% of Amid Evil players are in-game forever:
That achievement is likely to gather more accurate statistics due to the problems you mention. The Amid Evil devs can now confidently say that 12.7% of players who own the game have never started it. Meaning they can subtract that number from other achievement percentages to get a better idea of how many people are progressing certain ways.
The same is likely true for Minecraft's inventory achievement, though that's slightly less useful, as some players may make it a little further without opening the inventory and then stop forever.
Leaving the first planet in Stafield takes a little more effort, but not much. It's safe to say that some of the 25% of players who haven't done it haven't ever opened the game. But that number will probably be close to 10%.
I think the percentages are calculated from players that actually launched the game, not from people who own it.
Steam does not count games that have never been launched. For 12.7% of the players the game probably quit under a bit different circumstances: game crashed or they lost internet connectivity.
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Starfield has been out for long enough now that anyone interested in playing it likely already has.
Not even close, especially not in the year that also brought us Baldur's Gate and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. How much free time does this writer think everyone has?
Yup, definitely interested in Starfield. But at the moment still enjoying Act I of BG3, Cyberpunk 2077 patch 2.0 and DLC are right around the corner and after I've finished those Cityies: Skylines 2 will be available. So I'll probably have time for Starfield somewhere early 2024, depending on if my recurring Satisfactory itch hits before that. But by that time more official and unofficial bugfixes and QoL mods will be available, so I'm fine with waiting a bit longer to play. This year is just filled with too many goodies. 😁
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It's a Bethesda game. In a year most of the bugs will be fixed by the Unofficial Starfield Special Edition Patch, and it'll be on sale.
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I haven't even got around to Sea of Stars, for pity's sake
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Has this writer never used Steam or is he just unaware how many people buy games they don't actually play
Has this writer never used Steam or is he just unaware how many people buy games they don’t actually play
Firstly: If you had ever used Steam, you'd know that Steam differentiates between "have game in the library" and "have previously played a game". A bought game that was never launched, doesn't show up in these stats.
Secondly: It's clear you did not bother to read the article. "The numbers take into account players on Xbox, as well as those playing the Game Pass/Windows Store version of the game on PC." The 25% number isn't even from Steam.
I have used steam for 12 years and I never knew that.
In the Steam client, you have this box on the right:
And when you click on View All, you get something like this:
Dont think I ever read those then again I mainly just play games and collect a million unplayed ones
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Dude, I put like 60 hours into Skyrim my first time before I thought "hey... where's my shout powers and all the dragons?" Because as soon as Hadvar said "we should split up to avoid suspicion" I unchecked the active quest, said "adios!" And vanished into the trees. I had to come back at like level 30 or something to do the entire MQ from Riverwood to the end.
That's just how a lot of people play these. I don't wanna follow their story; I wanna make my own.
Edit: Oh and this is all besides the fact that not only do mods disable achievements, so now do console commands in Starfield. I've had to no clip a few times to get unstuck while jumping around with low gravity and ending up places I shouldn't be, so there are probably some achievements I didn't get simply because that command likely disabled them (it just gives a generic warning that some commands will disable them, but not which ones).
I already had mods that disabled achievements by then just to fix this mess.
Runs and looks great now, ~15 mods to get there.
What hardware are you running on? Pure vanilla and I've gotten a stable 100fps since release with everything on Ultra at 1440p.
Look at this guy with his dual 7900 XTX over here
I got a 7800x3d and 6950 xt. I played with performance boosting mods on medium settings
I kept dropping to 40fps on 1440p and ended up refunding
Damn, our hardware is so similar. I'm running a (single) 7900 XT and a 7600X. I'm also running on an nvme ssd, but presumably with your hardware you are too.
I wasn't trying to be an ass with my question about your specs, it's just that my hardware isn't particularly high end, so I was confused at why so many people are having performance issues.
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I don't have this game yet but I know out of the box modding any of the Fallout or Elder Scrolls games disables achievements (but you can get around this with other mods), so I assume it's the same here. Bethesda games being some of the most modded games of all time I wouldn't be surprised if even a lot of first time players were using one or two mods and having their achievements disabled.
I would have liked to have finished the first mission but the game crashes after roughly 5 minutes every time I try to play. Sort it out Bethesda.
People do play games offline. Personally, I don't care about achievements. They mean nothing to me, except knowing that the game developer is tracking my play through, which I hate.
People play offline and they also mod games (especially Bethesda games and especially this one). In order to get achievements in Starfield you either need to play (mostly) vanilla or install an extra mod to re-enable them. This is a dumb article and should be downvoted. There are many reasons why the claim is likely wrong.
I really wanted to but my game kept crashing like right after the part where you create a character. Maybe that has something to do with it.
My first game had achievements deactivated from the beginning. I had to ditch that game. Then download a mod to activate achievements, and start over.
Given that they have you meet a cowboy at the end of that mission, it is kinda understandable. I wonder who thought that having a cowboy as a main character would be a good idea for people outside of the US.
Whats wrong with a space cowboy? His faction is often referred to as lawless and wild. They believe in a wild sort of freedom. Astronauts are kinda space cowboys anyway. Also space cowboys are not a new concept in media. What about a cowboy would make people not get the tutorial?
It certainly put me off. Personally, I hate it when sci-fi writers use worn-out stereotypes in futuristic settings. Like the 'Irish, but not Irish' episode of StarTrek TNG.
I'd already seen a couple of streamers play random side quests, and this intro just made me definitively realise that this was not the game for me.
They were absolutely trying to appeal to Americans by making a cowboy character. Americans go nuts for cowboys. Everyone is downright obsessed with them. You can't find a single home in the country without seeing cowboy memorabilia and they watch cowboy movies on the weekends, it's crazy
As an American... what the fuck are you talking about? I don't know anyone who watches cowboy movies or have cowboy stuff in their homes. That would be fucking weird.
And I live in fucking Texas of all places.
I don’t know anyone who watches cowboy movies or have cowboy stuff in their homes. That would be fucking weird.
"Nah, that hat and those boots don't count. Those are everyday items."
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Be honest, do you actually live in the US? lol
I live in CA, literally entrenched in the history of "the old west" and I can honestly say not a single person I know has any cowboy memorabilia in their homes lol.
My dad had a little cast iron statue of a cowboy wrangling a bull on his desk at work growing up (a gift from a client) , but that is literally the only instance I can think of lol
And I also don't know a single person who regularly watches cowboy movies, I can't even remember the last time a cowboy movie was made in the US.. I think that remake with Chris Pratt?
I was being sarcastic. The guy is saying that cowboys don't appeal to non-americans...as if Americans love to see cowboys or something
Well shit, guess I got wooshed lol
I wonder who thought that having a cowboy as a main character would be a good idea for people outside of the US.
What's wrong with cowboys? The US was one of the first countries into space (2nd) and space explorers are often thought of as "space cowboys."
🎵It's been a long road🎵
For one, Bethesda is an American studio, owned by Microsoft, a company who's console has only barely started to gain success outside of the US.
Secondly, space westerns are, like, a pretty major genre, with major successes outside the US market. Ever heard of cowboy bebop?
It’s a classic figure in western culture… and a fitting character given his story and the planet he’s from. We’ve had plenty cowboys in movies, comic strips and I’m from europe… Not my favourite setting but it works…
For what it's worth, I am one of these people. I'd already watched a couple of streamers play random sidequests, but when I saw the early game I just couldn't stomach playing any further.
If I use a sample size of me and use my library of a measurement, it's probably more than 25% of games I haven't even launched let alone completing the first mission.
People who have never launched the game aren't counted in these statistics.
Sure, same here, but how many of those did you pay $70 for less than two weeks after it released?
Undoubtedly a significant number of these non-achievers are Gamepass subscribers.
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Terrible article they misses so many factors that play into this.
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