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Will Starfield Get Delayed?

Will Starfield be released in the first half of 2023?

  • Yes, of course.

    Votes: 221 63.9%
  • No, of course.

    Votes: 125 36.1%

  • Total voters
    346
More rumours coming out that Starfield will be delayed beyond the first half of 2023.
Microsoft said it would be the first half through their E3 presentation, and there hasn't been any news of a delay.
However, with Starfield not being in the new Xbox showcase, time is running out for its release date to be announced prior to 2st July.

What say ye Gaf?
 

mortal

Gold Member
No, I do not believe that Starfield will be delayed for s second time.

Nothing recent has given me the impression that I should be expecting one.
 

Jennings

Member
They'll either release it too early or they'll delay it. If it's released too early they'll just take the Fallout76, Sea of Thieves, No Man's Sky path to fixing a shit, broken game some time after release. Either way, whatever people are doing by June 2023 it won't be playing a finished product.
 
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Jaybe

Member
It will be delayed past the first half of 2023. I have faith in this guy I quoted.
I also think if you’re Phil, and you expect to close the Activision deal, then it’s just good portfolio management to let Diablo 4 release in June as currently scheduled and save Starfield for fall 2023. There also won’t be a mainline COD game this year, so they need to fill that hole with something. They have a potential game of the generation, so they will let it get polished if they can afford to wait. Personally I’d rather get my hands on it sooner, but it is what it is.

Starfield will not be released in the first half of 2023. A Reddit user that leaked Xbox’s show details four days before Jez’s tweet on it and did so causally in a Game Pass thread thinking the show was already announced later went on to say Starfield would be released in fall 2023. Seems to know a Bethesda employee and is from Maryland. This isn’t some clout chaser, just a random user that got details well before the published ‘scoop’ and went in to share more info. The date stamps are now old btw, I took these a few days back. They’re original show claim was from Jan 5th.
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They'll either release it too early or they'll delay it. If it's released too early they'll just take the Fallout76, Sea of Thieves, No Man's Sky path to fixing a shit, broken game some time after release. Either way, whatever people are doing by June 2023 it won't be playing a finished product.
Speaking as someone who had been playing Bethesda games since 1996, there was never a snowball's chance in hell that Starfield releases as a finished product. The only question is how unfinished it would be.

Xbox probably have already evaluated what is finished right now and wondering which way is better, more polish or make it to deadline. Either way there will be major bugs as per tradition.
 

Kacho

Gold Member
I think autumn is the earliest we’ll see it, like September or October. Starfield makes the most sense as a big holiday game and they’ll need time to get it as polished as possible.
 

Stuart360

Member
A better question is will it be any good.
Well i think that will come down to whether you like Bethesda open world rpg's.

But i mean this is Todds teams last 5 games -

Morrowind
Oblivion
Fallout 3
Skyrim
Fallout 4.

I'd say there is a pretty good chance of the game being good.

As for release date, i think it will be fall 2023.

After doing the whole 11-11-22 thing with the trailer, i dont think you would then delay it for like 3 or 4 months only.
 
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They should at least release a starter planet. Let me roam around gathering all the parts for my spaceship and killing things to 'get a feel' for the game.

Edit-Had to change my vote after reading others say I read the title wrong.
 
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Mowcno

Member
The question I'm more interested in is how many months after it launches will it take for the bugs to be squashed down enough for a good experience.
 

Saber

Gold Member
This time I don't think they will.

Even if the end result is not as polished as they might think or lacking content, I really believe this time they will launch the game.
 

Braag

Member
You mean to 2024? Highly doubt it.
I mean it doesn't have an actual release date even yet.
 
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I still think Starfield will come out around Fall 2023 or later. I feel around November 2023. Still plenty of time for Christmas or holiday sales, but that date will allow more time to polish and complete the game. I’ll be surprised if it comes out in the first half of 2023. To be honest I still think it’s a chance that it will get delayed to 2024, but we’ll see.
 
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FBeeEye

Banned
Depends on when the Starfield showcase is. Hopefully MS reveals the date of the Starfield presentation at the end of the dev showcase.
 

Kilau

Gold Member
I’m not sure they can get it ready by the 2st of July, we may have to wait until the 3th half of the physical yearly quarter.
 
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