As someone watches a lot of TV Shows, reads books and played many RPG's over the years something starting slow has never been a negative to me introducing characters and lore and setting the stage when done well is one of the best parts of the discovery of a new universe.

I've had all I want from Diablo IV. Stopped playing 3 days ago after playing non-stop everyday. I reached a point where I'm going to start disliking it, so I'll wait a year or two before jumping back in, and it should be in good shape by then.

I'm going to use this extra time before Starfield launch, to recharge my mental batteries and get ready for a really long adventure (also voted Series X).

Lmao Stein.

That's probably a wise choice I put 100 hours into doing the story and side content which was good but since I was playing with friends got into the endgame for another 100 hours and realised there is basically zero endgame content and I'm just grinding for the sake of it and I eventually left feeling disappointed with the overall time I spent on D4.

The core gameplay is fun and the atmosphere of the game is great but for something Blizzard said was going to be a Live service the endgame content is severely lacking, Maybe they will build upon things and bring me back in at some point.

Voted for Series X but will likely jump from PC Windows Store to Series X quite often. PC will be my default option when alone, but as my wife is pretty much interested in this title Seriers X is probably where most of my play session will happen.

Agreed, not a negative for me either, a lot of my favourite shows of all time I consider to have "slow" starts but often it's just heavy world building, character building, which sets up for an amazing show. I know some just want to jump straight into the action but for me, not a bad thing at all. We're talking 3 hours of "slowness" in a likely 100-200 hour RPG, Lol.

Wonder if it's like RDR 2 slow... lot of people hated that first section in that game.

Starfield selling 23 million copies this year alone confirmed! 

I do not believe he was listing it as  negative more than he was letting people know what to expect.  You will not be figuring out all the details of this game probably even in the first run through.  Its pretty much what I would believe many Bethesda RPG lovers are expecting.