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[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 year ago (5 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.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 24 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.

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.

[–] nolannice@lemmy.world 8 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.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Centillionaire@kbin.social 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.

[–] Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world 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.

[–] schmidtster@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] forgotaboutlaye@kbin.social 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.

[–] thesprongler@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Arkarian@lemmy.zip 17 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.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Arkarian@lemmy.zip 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.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Iamfallen@midwest.social 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.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] kale@lemmy.zip 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.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe their consoles are offline.

[–] neoman4426@kbin.social 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+?)

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.

[–] RadButNotAChad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] fishy195@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social -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