Starfield, a game mainly about space travel/exploration, couldn't convince a chunk of its players to leave the surface …

Starfield, a game mainly about space travel/exploration, couldn’t convince a chunk of its players to leave the surface of the tutorial planet.

Starfield has been out for long enough now that anyone interested in playing it likely already has. But just how many of the game’s millions of players stopped playing before finishing the first mission?

Well, according to achievement stats from TrueAchievements, around 25%! The For All, Into the Starfield achievement is awarded the first time you go to space, which happens maybe 30 minutes into the game. After a brief tutorial and some combat, you meet one of the game’s major NPCs, and he gives you his ship.

As soon as you leave the surface of the planet and take to space, the achievement should unlock. According to the numbers, however, 75% of players did that, which seems a little low considering how early into the game that happens, and how practically unavoidable the achievement is.

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    712·
    1 year ago

    They were absolutely trying to appeal to Americans by making a cowboy character. Americans go nuts for cowboys. Everyone is downright obsessed with them. You can’t find a single home in the country without seeing cowboy memorabilia and they watch cowboy movies on the weekends, it’s crazy

    • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      As an American… what the fuck are you talking about? I don’t know anyone who watches cowboy movies or have cowboy stuff in their homes. That would be fucking weird.

      And I live in fucking Texas of all places.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know anyone who watches cowboy movies or have cowboy stuff in their homes. That would be fucking weird.

        “Nah, that hat and those boots don’t count. Those are everyday items.”

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        I’m joking because the guy implied cowboys are for American appeal

    • bitsplease@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Be honest, do you actually live in the US? lol

      I live in CA, literally entrenched in the history of “the old west” and I can honestly say not a single person I know has any cowboy memorabilia in their homes lol.

      My dad had a little cast iron statue of a cowboy wrangling a bull on his desk at work growing up (a gift from a client) , but that is literally the only instance I can think of lol

      And I also don’t know a single person who regularly watches cowboy movies, I can’t even remember the last time a cowboy movie was made in the US… I think that remake with Chris Pratt?

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        I was being sarcastic. The guy is saying that cowboys don’t appeal to non-americans…as if Americans love to see cowboys or something