Starfield Faces Backlash (again) after Charing £6 for One Mission

Things just seem to be getting worse and worse for Todd Howard’s epic space fantasy ‘Starfield’. From the post-launch discourse to minimal updates since release adding very minor improvements over six months, fan consensus on the game hasn’t exactly been stellar. The worst development in this came earlier last week, however, when it was announced that Starfield would be getting its own Creation Club in the same style as Fallout 4 and Skyrim.

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Now, the Creation Club was already a controversial element for Bethesda’s games- with many labelling the ‘creations’ as paid mods. Considering that the majority are simply made by community members before being sold by Bethesda when they could have been free, this isn’t exactly an unfair label. With creations already being the center of a lot of discourse among the Bethesda community, any problem with each specific item sold is likely to be amplified even further than it already would be.  That’s why the £6 single DLC mission (that takes around 15 minutes to complete) has left a lot of fans with a bad taste in their mouth.

The mission is part of the bounty hunter questline which begins for free as part of an update that all players have access to. Once you’ve finished that mission, however, you would have to buy the second in the questline titled ‘The Vulture’ with Creation Club points. Considering that you can only purchase creation club points as a bundle too, the minimum you can spend if you just want to play this mission is £9. Essentially, for over 10% of the cost of the base game (which is included in Game Pass so many players have received it for free), you get access to a single mission that takes less than 15 minutes to fully beat.

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You may not be surprised to find out that, because of this quest being sold on the Creation Club, fans aren’t very happy. The Steam review score for the game has dropped to a mostly negative rating- with recent reviews bombarding Bethesda for the implementation of what many still consider to be paid mods. Todd Howard has responded to this controversy- saying that he “hears the feedback” and “will take a look at that” to improve the experience for players. Whether this will actually cause anything to change remains to be seen but, considering Bethesda’s prior infatuation with the Creation Club, don’t hold your breath on this one.