What’s even more surprising is that this list is generated by revenue, not by number of copies sold. That matters because Skyrim <\/em>is currently $7.99 on Steam, while a temporary sale for Starfield <\/em>has dropped its price tag down to $48.99. Even with the temporary savings, Starfield <\/em>still costs six times as much as Skyrim. <\/em>The 2011 Bethesda game isn’t just selling more copies than the studios latest\u2014it’s doing so by a large enough margin to make up for a massive difference in price per unit. <\/p>
In most cases, it wouldn’t be fair to compare a game to Skyrim <\/em>and cast judgment accordingly, but that changes when the game is from the same studio and has an immediately noticeable resemblance. <\/em>If you look at both games’ respective Steam reviews, you’ll see that Skyrim <\/em>has a Very Positive all-time rating, while Starfield<\/em>‘s is Mixed. Bethesda has been using the same gameplay formula for Elder Scrolls, Fallout<\/em>, and now Starfield <\/em>for over two decades now, and fans have never seemed to mind all that much. There’s a myriad of potential reasons that this shift has occurred, and while it is possible that it is just genuine fatigue with the same formula, I don’t personally think that’s the case. <\/p>
