Todd Howard Confirms Starfield Was Ready Last Holiday, Then Why Did It Come So Late?

Starfield launched last month, and it literally turned out to be everything its fans thought it would be. A game that gave them the ultimate experience of being a space explorer. A game that showed their fans how a Bethesda game looks when they decide to set it in space

Many hardcore fans might remember that it was originally slated to launch in November 2022, but it got postponed. No exact reason was given for the game’s delay, but everyone has their own assumptions regarding this delay. Todd Howard, the game’s director, has something else to say altogether.

Starfield Director Todd Howard says they completed the game in 2022.

Games nowadays take numerous years to make; the larger the game, the more time it takes to launch. A similar thing happened with Bethesda’s latest venture; they announced the open-world sci-fi RPG back in 2018; maybe it started development much earlier than the official announcement.

And that’s why many readily supported Bethesda games when they announced last year that Starfield would be delayed to 2022. But it looks like the game was actually ready back in 2022. This was confirmed by the game’s director, Todd Howard, during a recent interview.

He was seen saying, “There were bugs, etc., but here’s a full game; you can play it on your retail Xbox, your PC, and this should be the game you are playing over the holiday, and so we, the whole team, test the game really all year. Just playing it all the time, tweaking it, fixing it—I don’t want to say how many bugs there are.”

It looks like they knew about all those bugs and glitches that fans have experienced all this time. If they were testing this game so vigorously, that means the game was basically chock full of bugs and glitches. That’s why it took them close to a year to make it playable.

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It’s good of them that they decided to delay the game rather than release a buggy mess.

The game could have used some more time in QA

While it was good to know that the developer had stopped this game’s launch last year on account of it being very buggy, It looks like a bunch of bugs and glitches were still left behind. The performance issues are plentiful, and there are still some funny glitches remaining in the game.

To their credit, Bethesda has yet to give up on Starfield, and they keep releasing new patches to keep improving it. Here’s hoping the game ends up being exactly what fans had pictured it to be months ago, sans any more technical issues.

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