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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is like any game ever. There is always a percentage of players who don't seem to play the games they buy regardless of how new the game is.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every millennial who got a good, high-paying job only to have no time to spend on the games they can now afford to buy on a whim.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh. All the unplayed shit I've bought. Steam seasonal sales are especially bad.

Granted that some of those are just early access titles that I wanted to support.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just keep telling myself that when I retire I'll be glad for all the random games I bought.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tell myself there is plenty of time to play the games i bought and then i remember they're all on a single platform and i have to pray they don't shut it down on a whim or some billionaire buys it and runs it into the ground.

What are the odds Steam is still operational amd i have access to the games I've bought in 30-40 years?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Game pass makes it easy to throw games away if you don't like them in 5 minutes, and starfield has the worst intro to any Bethesda game I've played, from morrowind and forward.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's even worse because of Gamepass, a lot of people probably installed to see what the hype was about but bounced off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would’ve been one, but I read the reviews and realized it would not be a game I would be interested in and never downloaded on game pass. Cities Skylines II is what I’m looking forward to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nice to see a fellow cities enthusiast out there. The true spiritual successor to SimCity imo. Excited also for Cities II.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would be one, although I did make it to space and landed on a planet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not every game is going to be enjoyable for everyone, more people need to understand this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would guess also a lot of XBOX players download the game on gamepass, and then never open it - since the there isn't any achievement unlocked prior to the one you get for reaching space, I wonder if there is any other way to tell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a better metric would be how many hit level 5 but did not visit New Atlantis or something.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mods on PC also disable achievements, so it's possible that a fair few space adventurers are missing the achievement

Probably that, and people just checking it in game pass. About the other achievements, It's funny that in Bethesda games people keep ignoring the main quest so much.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's literally mods that enable achievements, which are also some of the most downloaded mods.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have one of those mods because I was stuck early on. My save does not show modified, but I stopped receiving achievements. No biggie, but it would skew the percentages for sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They can't do it retroactively afaik. You have to use the achievement enabler before getting flagged.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ngl first thing I did was ignore the main quest. My years of Skyrim, fallout 3 & 4, Ubisoft open worlds and Witcher taught me to look for the main quest, then go in the complete opposite because then that's where the wacky stuff happens.

I was kinda annoyed that Starfield wasn't like that. After a few hours, I got kinda bored and followed the main quest (to a degree), and that's when a lot of the game world opened up and I started to really enjoy it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see, good to know, haven't played it much yet. I'm used to leaving the main quest at the bottom of the list, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There's not much to do on the beginning asteroid, though. If you want to do any of the side quests without the main quest, or no quests and base build, you still need to leave the starting asteroid via spaceship.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

A couple years ago 50% of Minecraft Xbox users never opened the inventory

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

People deciding RPGs aren't for them I'd assume.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe their consoles are offline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm probably contributing to this. Pirated it during the early access period on PC, played a decent amount, then on release installed the Gamepass version and used a tool to convert my save to the format the Windows Store version uses. Occasionally play that save on an Xbox as well so I was well past the point the achievement should have popped. Guess I'll get it if I ever do another character (or if it pops on ng+?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There was some issue with the achievements for those of us who played the early launch. I'm playing the Steam version, but it thinks I never went to space or joined Constellation despite me having them for things like quests and killing 300 creatures.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tried, but it crashes at the same part 15 minutes in.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have barely went into space. I have not been playing because making a base is daunting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have to make a base at all..... It's completely optional

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but I want to have one. Im just not wild about the process. The way I play games I have years of play between starfield, baldursgate, and cyberpunk