The excuse they give to excuse the "Emptiness" of Starfield because it "reflects real life" kind of misses the point of being a video game.
We don't want a replica of real life.
We want entertainment. (That and we haven't colonized the stars yet anyway.)
If I can go to the movies and accept that there is a talking squirrel that wields guns... I am sure I can accept a heavily populated universe.
In saying that... Starfield is not actually a bad game.
More like an incomplete game.
Which was ironically the issue Fable 3 had.
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