On the one hand, I truly do not understand how anyone is surprised by Starfield being a buggy, incomplete cash grab mess. Bethesda is still using the same engine it had in Oblivion. The engine is over a decade old, and has just been being bandaid patched for that long, and this is obvious to anyone who has ever made a mod for any of their games, or just been alive and witnessing Fallout 76.

On the other hand, I realize that the video gamer demographic is apparently still largely made up of morons who have no idea how game development or programming work, how advertising works, or what workers rights are.

Then I go back to being baffled. The technical incompetence and propensity of Bethesda to release buggy, broken bullshit is legendary, but gamers /still/ gobble up their crap on day one.

Its basically gamer self flagellation, at this point.

...fuck Todd.

The problems with Starfield are on a fundamental level. Patches, DLC, and even mod support won't resolve that. The foundation is cracked.