Starfield has been review bombed due to Bethesda adding paid mods to the game via the Creation Club. Bethesda Boss Todd Howard has now responded to the community’s pushback.
Starfield has dropped into the mostly negative category on Steam following a mass review bombing in protest of its new paid mods. This isn’t the first time Bethesda has added paid mods to one of its games, and the community is never happy about it. People were especially mad at the second Trackers Alliance mission, The Vulture. The first mission was free, but now people have to pay to continue with the questline.
Speaking on the MrMattyPlays YouTube channel (as spotted by IGN), Howard said “First of all I’ll say that stuff gets priced based on things that we’ve done before both in Creation Club and then Fallout 76, and we’re always trying to be looking at what else is out there, really make sure we’re giving value to everybody and where we’re not, hey you know, we definitely will adjust.
“The one thing I want to say on The Trackers Alliance, that was really an attempt to something we did in Creation Club where we’d say, hey you get this special outfit and you get this special weapon, we wanted to put them together, and then thought, let’s go the extra mile and wrap those around a quest.
“But now we definitely see the feedback right? And that’s not what we want at all in terms of, oh no, this looks like a faction that we’re chopping up and then selling for 700 credits at a time. And so I do think we are going to take a look at that and how we deliver content like that, and whether we’re changing pricing or breaking it up or what we should do there. So, great feedback from the community.”
Howard added that Bethesda has wants to reward modders for their efforts: “Our view is, a lot of [modders] have gone from hobbyists to professionals. And it’s part of our job to make sure they can do that and they do get paid and they see the monetary rewards if they make awesome content.”
In other news, Steam has six games that you can download for free right now.