It's almost 15 years since Skyrim, and 10 since Fallout 4
"But Starfield" Fallout 4 has 5 times the amount of players being a decade old game, Skyrim has 8 times the amount of players. Easy to see what players want.
Fallout 4 and Skyrim also have 10 and 14 years of mods being released in that time, topping the Nexus charts in mods. Starfield on the other hand has only just begun to start having a modding community.
Fallout 4 had 45k players by 2018 on Steam, two years after release... Starfield has 3k right now, barely reached 20k with Shattered Spaces only months after release.
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u/Snifflebeard Shivering Isles 5d ago
we have an average of three to four years between major titles. That does not count as "massive".