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Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty has claimed that Starfield will have the fewest bugs of any Bethesda game
GeeseGoose
Member
Well, the bar is set so high, in terms of big count, that it may well be achievable.
Disclaimer: “Bethesda” is my favourite style of game, bugs and all.
Disclaimer: “Bethesda” is my favourite style of game, bugs and all.
GenericUser
Member
I hope so, lol, but I don't believe it.
THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
Good idea, they should just say nothing about thier best game. In fact, the should probably just issue a press release saying it's garbage.
THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
Seriously? Every game goes through this process, they have it refined already to a good point and have 2 more months to fix anything left. That's a good situation, and your making it out to be bad somehow? Lame post.
Kenpachii
Member
I am sure they have, watch some of the release fallout 76 reviews. Have a good laugh about how well this company releases games. Lesser bugs means nothing when u know u got them. Delay and release the product complete. Nobody expected them to launch the game this year anyway.
Investor9872
Member
I don't think he's lying per se. But I think he's being disingenuous. Starfield may ship with the "fewest bugs of any Bethesda game," but that's not saying much since all of their games shipped with an exorbitant number of bugs!
Helghan
Member
What? It was already postponed twice...
March Climber
Member
Only Bethesda can somehow get away with utterly ridiculous news like this. Any other dev would be laughed out of the room.
Investor9872
Member
It will have ONLY 1 major bug per planet!
Kataploom
Gold Member
Didn't Bethesda say the same before for that Fallout game? Let's just assume that, as this is coming to game pass, players can ditch it easily so they are making honest efforts in order to avoid that situation... Also they have Zelda, game that is probably more or equally complex and that came basically bug free. Basically any game is gonna be put aside TOTK as quality measurement since it showed it's not the nature of the open world design but the publisher and dev will if they release a polished product.
Ar¢tos
Member
Don't be sad, the first patch will probably add all the missing bugs!
After releasing Skyrim on 3 gens of consoles, you still need to apply the Unofficial patch to fix basic shit (and can't earn trophies using the patch), so I really doubt it will have less bugs than Skyrim, if it is a much bigger game with more mechanics.
After releasing Skyrim on 3 gens of consoles, you still need to apply the Unofficial patch to fix basic shit (and can't earn trophies using the patch), so I really doubt it will have less bugs than Skyrim, if it is a much bigger game with more mechanics.
Cyberpunkd
Member
Apology letter done already?
genesisblock
Member
Waiting for Nexus Mods to upload the "Unofficial Starfield patch".
TransTrender
Gold Member
Can't wait
Yeah, they are doing nothing more on the game in the next 3 months. They are just all going to sit around in a circle and jerk each other off. There won't be a big (or any) day 1 patch at least since, so nobody can complain about that.
Stare-Bear
Banned
They had a good show and all their PR peeps have come out with just pure bollocks. “30fps is a creative choice” “Least amount of bugs” Just shut up
You know the world is in trouble when this is the only sort of reply you can get to a topic like this in a gaming forum.
They were asked about this in the giant bomb interview, which went for about an hour. They spoke about lots of different things. Would you prefer that 95% of their answers were just "no comment". What fun content.
THE DUCK
voted poster of the decade by bots
There's zero reason to delay this game, if they needed more time at all they would have waited until November. They clearly dealt with most bugs already and have time to refine it even before sept. Your making zero sense here in this case.
If ‘No Man’s Sky ripoff’ is your impression after watching that Starfield deep dive, I think you could consider pursuing another hobby aside gaming.
knitting, perhaps?
Lol. You’re the one being disingenuous here, taking his statement out of context.
Man’s being asked about Starfield QA and he’s saying they’ve devoted so much QA to the product that even if it launched today, it’ll launch with fewer known bugs than any other Bethesda product.
And they’ve still got months of polishing and bug fixing to go.
Skepticism is expected and warranted, but ‘disingenuous’?
It’s an interview. Questions are asked, responses are required.
We’d have had a 10 page thread here if he’d dodged any question on Starfield QA and bugs.
CuteFaceJay
Member
Even bossman booty know this isn't going to GOTY over Zelda when he's saying shit like this, I mean for fuck sakes. 
Negotiator101
Member
He's answering a question, he didn't just come out with this as a marketing lineEven bossman booty know this isn't going to GOTY over Zelda when he's saying shit like this, I mean for fuck sakes.
Also what's Zelda got to do with what he said? Console warriors 
Bernardougf
Member
Well.. seeing the xbox fans response to the 30 fps announcements... the bar dosent need to be that high anyway ...
Bernardougf
Member
Drizzlehell
Banned
Bragging about the game not having too many bugs? God, just kill me now. And some of you have the balls to claim that gaming is better than ever...
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Hard to find an open world game that doesn’t launch with a list of known, non game breaking bugs.
If you’d bothered to read the quote and the context, it’s centered around the immense amount of QA being deployed.