During an interview today with the YouTube channel MrMattyPlays, Todd Howard gave us some new info about the plan for annual expansions in Starfield
During an hour-long interview on the MrMattyPlays channel, Bethesda Game Studios head and industry legend Todd Howard talked about several topics. Among those was Starfield and the studio’s plans for their newest IP. A few juicy tidbits of information were given for Shattered Space, the game’s “first” story expansion, and the plans for 2025 and beyond.
Shattered Space, unlike the majority of the main campaign, is set in one city. Howard said that the game would be similar in scope to Fallout 4’s Far Harbor DLC. That DLC was roughly 7 to 10 hours long if you mainlined it or around 20 hours to complete it 100%.
The second item was the confirmation that, as of now, Bethesda Game Studios are planning to annualize story expansions for Starfield. This would be a first for the company and explains why they stated that Shattered Space was the “first” story expansion for the game when it was first announced when the Deluxe Edition pre-orders went live before launch.
We loved Starfield at launch, giving it a 9.7 and stating:
“Starfield is polished to a sheen in a way no prior BGS title has been, showing off the benefits of the extra time afforded to it after Xbox’s acquisition of Zenimax. Seen as one of the most important games in Xbox’s history they have done the impossible and lived up to the hype. Let’s start this review by breaking down just what this game is, and how it all comes together to still have that Bethesda Games Studio heart.
Starfield is a new beginning. Not only for Bethesda but for Xbox as a whole. With excellent writing, stunning graphics, and thrilling gameplay it makes the galaxy yours to explore, shape, and live in. It is a wonderous tapestry to experience your story in a way that only the best have done before.”
Are you interested in these story expansions? Sound off and let us know in the comments below.
Annual expansions! I wonder if they plan on bringing in another studio like Double 11 to take over the development of Starfield.
Maybe Starfield is Bethesda’s take on Gaas single player games more in line with Ubisoft with Assassin’s Creed.
It would be quite awesome to have Starfield become evergreen. Not as frequent as multiple seasons a year, but little things here and there if able to without any additional effort on the devs part as they get set for the big expansion. Having a bigger once a year expansion would be great.
Yet, Fable, Indy, Perfect Dark, Gears… Gah!
If they plan on supporting Starfield with expansion for the long term i.e. 3 years or more, then most likely they’ll bring in some sort of support studio for it, the main studio will be all hands on deck for ES6 at that stage
The setting makes it so they can pretty much do whatever they want whether it’s locations or new gameplay mechanics
It’s the perfect example of single player game you could turn into “GaaS”
Yes please!
Great interview, say what you want Todd is a class act
More Starfield is always good.
Would love annual paid expansions while the rest of the year can be quality of life updates, creations and some added content from Bethesda Game Studios like Tracker’s Alliance.
Sounds good. Starfield is going nowhere from my hard drive lol.
That was a great interview.
Love hearing the average play time and number of players to date. It’s such a a slap in the face to all of the negativity it’s so easy to run into online.