Starfield Just Got Its Biggest Update Ever...Some Fans Are Angry 

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I miss the days of paying once and owning the entire game

7 dollars for a super short quest. 10 dollars for a single ship module. Disgusting.

Kudos to Bethesda for making it easy to mod their game, but charging 7 bucks for a short quest is lame.

$7 for a very generic quest, with 1 gun. Starfield is already in the negatives for a lot of people, in terms of value. This is a terrible idea.

$7 for one quest. $7 is 10% of the cost of the entire game. For one quest. The math ain't mathing.

That bounty with Dead or Alive in front of a UC guard just shows how incompetent UC security is

The funniest part is the achievement disabler for non-BGS mods. No worries, Todd. We'll just reenable them with a *free* mod....

It's a shame that people are starting to accept paid mods now. The 2 last times Bethesda tried to be greedy making paid mods they got pushed back hard with good reason a $7 dollars single quest is what people who support paid mods deserve, next time they should sell the color blue skin for a gun with $20.

Soooo will Bethesda ever make it so that PAID Creations dont Disable Achievements/Trophies? There is no reason to buy something if it disables a Key Feature of the Base Game...................

It is 1 cent cheaper to buy 500 credits twice than it is to buy 1000 credits

It has become very obvious why a lot of the game is just an open canvas with so much repetitiveness; They had foresight when it came to the paid mods. It dictated how they developed the game. Something you can't see in Skyrim, or even FO4. When you look at some of the top mods, it just makes sense, just how many aspects of the game they decided to not flesh out, knowing that they'd be filled up later with 5, 10 dollar mods. It just brings it all together for me. I used to be kinda baffled by some of the choices they made...this is the answer.

Can we stop calling these DLCs mods

Bethesda shouldn't be selling paid mods they made. That's a very bad look for them, makes them look greedy AF.

You could buy Fallout New Vegas for 5 dollars during a steam sale. Bethesda is essentially saying this one creation club bounty hunter quest is worth more than the entirety of Fallout New Vegas, pricing wise.

This game made me appreciate Cyberpunk more. They released so much free content from quests to cosmetics. The only paid DLC was Phantom Liberty.

Then: We sell you a whole DLC Now: We sell you DLC piece by piece The Tracker's Alliance quest in a nutshell, or what it looks like.

No, starfield becoming a live service game sets a terrible precedent. A single player live service game... an unfinished single player live service game making you pay to finish it for them.

Bethesda, continually reminding us why they suck so hard.

"at least the $10 spaceship mod is more than a single part" 💀 why do they do this

I really hate the idea of turning single player games into live services. I think starfield is so barebones because of Bethesda's intent to do this. Imagine in New Vegas if you couldn't do the Legion questline until a paid DLC. I know its not exactly the same but that's basically what they've done to Starfield cutting out such an integral part of their universe that already feels small. Their going to sell a complete game for a total of however many hundreds of dollars through creation club and dlc Starfield is a perfect template to do so. I'm not hyped for future Bethesda games if I'm being honest.

RU-vidrs shouldnt even cover the paid mods stuff.

Yea ill be sticking to free mods I always noticed the only mods with soul are free so nah no thanks

Why is Batman in the thumbnail 😭

(Insert game name here) just got its biggest update ever!

My biggest frustration with Starfield is I can only leave a single negative review of it.

I am honestly fine with creators charging for their mods if they want to. I've noticed some actually charging on the store and having it be free on Nexus. What I do not like is Bethesda using this as an excuse to sell microtransactions like individual quests for 7 freakin dollars. That's ridiculous.

Elder Scrolls 6 ends up a $70 game for the base version. The "It just works" ultimate edition is gonna be $100+. And then there are new Horse Armor creations for $5+ each. Brave new world.

Bethesda logic: make them pay us more money for subpar content that should have been in the game from the beginning

Dude's defending "micro dlc" and paid mods instead of just having a COMPLETE game.

Ten bucks just for a 15 minute second quest in a free faction addition forced in your game is wild... nothing against paid mods from creators, but bethesda doing them is just scummy, like every other microtransactions in single player games you already paid for.

Why can't we just have regular DLC with actual completed lengthy questlines for a fair price.

It’s pretty insulting to your player base to release a broken game, doubly so to charge players for mods that other players wrote to fix it.

How did this update take over 6 months….

WOOH! MICROTRANSACTIOINA! YAH!!!

100gb of mods is like the size of a game bruh if only we had this for Fallout 4 mods and Skyrim 😭🙏

Bethesda making you pay 7 dollars for a quest that should have been in the base game

I get that the channel is about showcasing and perhaps not pissing off the brand and studio who has given Juicehead opportunities. At the same time it kind of sucks to hear you handwave the idea of microtransaction quests in your single player game like we should accept that as likely. The vibe of the channel definitely isn't to rant or get angry at the state of things but normalizing this kind of behavior especially when in your own words "the value proposition is bad" kinda leaves a sour taste. The rational take of voting with your wallet is good though and I wish that was how you ended the thought instead of the one where this behavior is inevitable and should be expected.

I still remember the backlash Bethesda got for the infamous paid horse armor fiasco.

The creation prices are truly embarrassing.

The biggest issue I have is that there’s no way to filter for achievement friendly creations (obviously it’s only Bethesda ones at the moment but if they do accept some community creations in the future this filter would be very welcome)

On console there is currently a audio bug making it impossible to play as they have no sound

So this game having no content whatsoever WAS intentional.

If buying isn't owning then pirating isn't stealing!!!!

For months they asked fans to tell them what they wanted in the game and that they would read them all and consider them...then they completely ignored that. They seemed to forget that platforms like Steam and Discord keep metrics so we know what fans were asking for. "please charge us ten dollars per mission for bounties" really was not in there. Nor was "introduce yet more resources to collect" or "give us a meaningless currency that we have to be a member of a specific faction to trade it for random garbage".

when you pay for it, its not a mod, its a DLC

You can fly straight to Akila City and the tracker will be there waiting by your ship.

Commodifying mods destroys the spirit of the modding community as a 'Labor-of-Love'. They are willing to test this again by nickle and diming your every piece of additional content. Not even part of a huge dlc, you pay $7 bucks for a 15 minute quest.

If elder scrolls 6 has any faction implemented similarly to how they’re implementing the trackers alliance Bethesda will have lost me as a fan

Guess making the game an exclusive didn't sell as many consoles as the suits thought it would.

Back to Horse Armor

Any modder that pulls a previously free mod and puts it on here for sale will find me pirating their work.

They selling single quest for 7$ now, at what point we gonna say "no", or "stop it"?

I guess this is what the "our games will last 10 years" they pitched is.

Thank GOD they are charging $7 for the content so they can keep the doors of Bethesda open. Can I donate more, please!

How many companies you know support and promote free mods along side their paid add ons? Not only that they also set up a system for recognized modders to be compensated for their hard work and dedication to their games.

the trackers alliance spacesuit has been in the game since day one

The devs calling them the vultures was ironic considering.

The Trackers Alliance leader. It's gonna be Starborn Sam from another universe, isn't it?

That good old Bethesda, transforming the DLC culture one more time. $7 Dlls per Quest!!!!

But is the game still $70 tho?

Bethesda should send some fat checks to modders. Without them Bethesda would have gone out of business 10 years ago.

My drug dealer told me the same thing the first hit is free. Then you have to pay for it.

Instead of releasing one quest, it should have been a bundle. I wouldn't have minded depending on pricing for a bundle of 10 or so bountys.

My problem with monetising mods is that it basically transforms modding into just another commercial store. It also splits the modding community into the haves and the have-nots; I can imagine a time when modders release a basic or teaser version of their mod for free on Nexus or wherever, and a premium version on the Creation Club. It's great that modders are getting paid for their efforts, because modding is a skilled and time-consuming task, like any software development. But the cost is that a large corporation like Bethesda/Microsoft can cash in on it; modders are turned into casual contractors and modding becomes a job as opposed to something done for the love of the game; and the community-centric nature of modding dies (to what extent is yet to be seen). I just wish we could prevent corporations from making *everything* about profit. It just sucks that there's nothing I, or anyone who cares, can do about it because there will be enough of an audience for it to make it profitable.

This proves Bethesda is still not paying attention.

It's like... its not even worth buying a game when it comes out. Just wait another couple years then buy the "whole game" version that includes all the dlc.

DLC? Dollar Looting from the Consumers. Wait in Todd talk. Maximum creativity as you wish, you can build your own Story and ignore what you don't want...

9 months to add tiered melee weapons in your "do anything" space rpg is fucking abysmal... thats like playing skyrim with only having hunting, imperial, and long bows in the game (not to mention different arrow types) and waiting almost a year to get glass bows, ebony bows, daedric bows, etc. absolutely baffling this company Betheseda is

these areas look kit bashed together

I want to welcome Bethesda to my "Never buy from these blood-sucking pariahs posing as a Gaming Developer ever again" list

Really? "Pleasantly surprised" at how good a single quest was that costs 1/10 of the entire base game? Technically, 1/10 of the deluxe edition because they're still pulling that "you have to buy $10 worth of fake money so you can spend $7 of the fake money on the quest... with exactly one absolutely insulting item available to spend your remaining $3 on. I knew they were going to try to pull something to get their hands into our pockets but this is slimier than even a cynic like me expected. "We need to charge $70-100 these days because games cost so much to make. Now keep giving us $10 here and $20 dollars there so we can finish it eventually..."

So, we’ll have to buy a mod with real currency to get bounties for virtual money. I dunno, feels like a scam.

Paying for mods is absurd. At that point just throw what you want into a dlc and call it a day. I mean especially for cosmetic stuff that doesn’t really affect gameplay. Why would anyone pay for stuff they can get from much more talented creators for free.

Voting with your purchase isn't going to be accurate here. Many who got it used those free credits we started with, and we're done immediately with the updates release. It skews the numbers and isn't really representative enough for them to learn its BS

This sounds nice but this brings up the common AAA problem. Weapon rarities, bounty boards, and mod/mod support shouldv been there day one or they wouldn't be adding it for free.

I don't have any problem with paid / unpaid mods - always a supporter of modders getting paid for their creations. Already you can see the Nexus Starfield community is being more active - and the no of creations (both paid and unpaid) are increasing daily. The mod order tool in Creations works fine for me - updates the Plugin.txt file with no problems. I admit the whole Trackers Alliance paid vs unpaid thing is an unnecessary distraction - but of course is being blown up as the issue of the century and will blow over just as quickly. Worth pointing out that - yet again - Bethesda has enabled modding for console - not too many other Developers are doing or even thinking about that...

So glad that official mod support is now here, Starfield is probably Bethesda's most moddable game, so many interesting systems that can be leaned into further or pulled away from

They’re just stealing our money for a DLC we already paid for why do I have to send 700 more credits to be able to play another mission

No Mans Sky doesn't charge for new content. Just sayin...

I didnt think that creation was free? You got 1000 creds for having upgraded to premium edition ( so you paid for those creds) and then had to use those creds to buy this trackera alliance dlc. Did anyone actually get this for free?

Too bad they can't update it to be a good game

Are there any mods to fix the audio for some reason? In my game, there's no audio only on the new weapon from the tracker. Alliance, nothing makes a sound in my game

60-70$ for a whole game or $7 for 1 mission. If you buy this you're not the smartest cookie in the gaming community.

This has convinced me to never buy this game.

And with this news, I can finally play Starfield. As a guy who prefers to play modded Bethesda games on console (I got my silly reasons) 100gigs to play with is no joke. I've made miracles happen with FO4's meager 2gigs. So not having to play Sophie's Choice every single time between a world expansion mod and a custom voiced follower mod whenever I was building a new mod order is just a godsend.

The enforcer paid creation breaks audio for starfield.

The problem is not EXTRA content that gets added to a game, its that defining "extra content" is entirely subjective and companies will of course abuse this to their own gain... Right now, Starfield released as a full game, that most people didn't feel lacked actual content (missions, locations, weapons/outfits, stuff, etc), the issues were that what was there, wasn't really up to snuff with most modern games (even older Bethesda games)... But imagine an alternate world, were micro-transactions of this kind are introduced back in the PS2 days (again, its theoretical), some years later, in this world's 2011, Bethesda releases their new entry into the Elder Scrolls series: Skyrim. The trailers look amazing, everybody loved Oblivion, even though Bethesda had released a lot of kinda silly over-priced stuff in their new "Creation Club", but people didn't really care too much, mods were free and plentyful, and nobody really thought that Oblivion was lacking in quantity or quality of content in its release date, so of course Skyrim is going to be amazing! And now imagine a Skyrim releasing with like 50% of what it released with, imagine that whole questlines like the Dark Brotherhood, or the Thieves Guild were locked behind micro-transaction packages in the Creation Club. Like $7 for the first Thieves Guild mission with Brynjolf, and the Thieves hangout in the sewers of Riften, then $7 more for a couple of missions each time, until you end up paying almost the entire game's original $60 in just Thieves Guild quests... And the same for the Dark Brotherhood, and maybe even some Daedric Quests! Well, this is the future that awaits us if "games as a service" continue, which I think maybe is no the case, given the huge failure of some GaaS in the last year or two... But the mayor success of some games as a service is just too alluring for companies to ignore, even if there are some very high-profile flops out there :/

Seems like anything done with Starfield is synonymous with "fans are angry." This game is lame bruh.

Starfield = ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

I really hope that this doesn’t kill free mods. It would really suck if all the best mods are locked behind paywalls.

If I had to deal with this creation store, Id be spamming Bethesda with requests for a don't show me this mod again button. It's already being filled up with trash.

For those complaining about paid mods ... you realize you don't *have* to buy them, right?

Bethesda squeeze their golden goose any tighter and it will straight up die.

Ah yes, a new pointless currency, sounds like a sign of the live service model.

The fact that we have to pay money for content in a game that lacks so much of it is just insulting.

A $120 AUD game that gets a first big update thats just for them to make more money, and paywall the free quest

Bethesda trying to extract every last cent out of this failure

starfield = new game that loads a map continue, loads a map continue, loads a map continue, loads a map continue, loads a map continue. Game feels like a 2011 throwback with pretty gfx

I seriously don't know how they ever thought it would be OK to cut up a questline and sell each quest as a $7 dollar mod. That's fucked up. For reference, all of the Fallout 3 and NV DLCs are $5 each. Somehow, one quest in a new game is worth more than an entire DLC with a whole questline and new weapon and areas to explore in an old game.