Horse Armor rides again: Bethesda is charging $7 for a single Starfield mission and after months of minimal post-launch support, unhappy fans are feeling ripped off
Starfield made a pretty big splash at the Xbox Games Showcase over the weekend, serving up our first look at the upcoming Shattered Space expansion and also dropping a major update heralding the launch of the Starfield Creation Kit, a free editor that enables players—and Bethesda—to make and share new content for the game. Shattered Space looks cool, but the rollout of Creations, as they're called, has not gone over entirely well.
«New missions have been added to Starfield as part of this update,» Bethesda said in the update announcement. «Trackers Alliance establishes the first of several missions enabling you to live your best bounty-hunting life. The first mission, The Starjacker, will have you in contact with a mysterious Tracker located in settlements throughout the Settled Systems. From there, let the hunts begin!»
The problem is that the second Trackers Alliance mission, The Vulture, is only available as a Starfield Creation, and it sells for $7—which is really $10, given that you'll need to purchase 1,000 Starfield Creation Credits in order to have enough to access it. The Vulture is an official Bethesda product so, leaving aside jokes about Bethesda jank, it's safe to assume there's a level of production quality that's not always going to be present in fan-made stuff. Even so, there's a widespread feeling that it's a lot of money for a single quest.
To compare, the Starfield premium edition upgrade goes for $35 and includes the full Shattered Space expansion, the Constellation skin pack, digital art book, soundtrack, and 1,000 Creation Credits—enough to buy The Vulture mission.
«Is Shattered Space actually just 2 quests in a trenchcoat? Probably not,» redditor TheMightyNovac wrote. «So I doubt that even Bethesda believes this is reasonable pricing. So, for the love of god, drop the price.
»Oblivion sold entire elaborate player houses (complete with questlines) for less than $2, so accounting for inflation, I'll be generous and say… $3. I think $3 for a
Read more on pcgamer.com
