Starfield Rumours (now Q4 2022)

[Leynos]

shikamaru317 said:

the-pi-guy said:

The credits page list about 300 devs on Fallout 76.  Out of 400+ at BGS.

It's true you can do a lot without too many developers, but expectations are higher and it is requiring more developers to make things look better.

I took the time to go through the whole list and count them all. Roughly 200 BGS devs are listed for core positions, the rest are listed for additional work, such as additional programming, additional art, etc, assistance devs in other words, not core devs. Based on Bethesda's size and growth during those years, I would estimate that the Starfield team started around 50 core devs in late 2015 when Todd Howard said that Starfield began active development, growing to around 100 core devs by late 2018 when Fallout 76 released, with the same assistance devs who assisted on Fallout 76 also assisting on Starfield (meaning they were going back and forth assisting on both projects as needed).

So a good amount of development should have gotten done in those first 3 years, and Todd Howard said in an E3 2018 interview, about 2 and a half years after active development began, that Starfield was already in a playable state at that point. Then for the next 3 years of development, from 2019-2021, we're looking at roughly 180-220 core devs on Starfield as the 4 Bethesda studios continued to expand during the last few years, a bigger core dev team than any previous singleplayer BGS game by quite some margin, plus additional assistance from other BGS teams, and of course very likely some assistance from other Zenimax studios (Arkane, id Software, and Zenimax Online all provided some assistance on Fallout 76 for instance). I will be surprised if it's late 2022, unless Covid forcing them to work from home for the past year hurt them alot. 

Did you play Travis Strikes again? They gave us No More Heroes III in a playable state in 2018. It was Travis in a grey blank room with a UE4 asset being to swing at. A playable state means practically nothing. It's a AAA publisher feeding gullible people misguided truths that may as well be a lie. Todd has never been known to be a liar, has he.