• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t think the devs are making the decisions in AAA games like that. They’re pretty much always just doing what they’re told to do.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      By devs I meant developer studios in general, not the actual coders.

      Emil Pagliarulo and Todd Howard are pretty much the two “they say it, you do it” voices in Bethesda and, as far it’s been shown, Microsoft was very hands off with how BGS handled Starfield.

      In this specific case, it really looks like it was a case of terrible design decision from high up, either Todd or Emil, to “let the player land on every solid rock” and have half of them have human buildings

      As a comparison, Elite Dangerous, which is not AAA, but as close to mainstream as a space game gets, is a game about space activities, including exploration, and it took ~6 years to release a DLC that added planetary landing, and that was super limited, too.