Starfield Drops To Mostly Negative Reviews Following Creation Club Update

Starfield‘s Steam reviews have been up and down since launch. Bethesda‘s latest RPG opened to positive scores, but this dropped as some were disappointed with the game. Throughout its various updates and patches, it’s gone back and forth between mixed and negative reviews, but now, it’s crashing once again.

Now that an update has added the controversial Creation Club – or Creations, as it was recently rebranded – to the game, Starfield has once again fallen to mostly negative reviews on Steam. The bad reviews show no sign of stopping either, as a loud group of players make it clear that they didn’t want Creations anywhere near Starfield.

Starfield Players Respond To The Creation Club Update

“Bethesda is now charging for individual quests through [Creations]. $7 for a quest in a game THAT YOU PAID $70 FOR,” reads one negative review. “The real cost is actually $10 because you have to purchase their currency to get it.”

Other reviews focus on the same issue, with another player writing: “Really? Another push for curated paid mods no one asked for?”

The Creation Club has been controversial since its inception in 2017, as many fans see it as another way for Bethesda to roll out paid mods. Creations products are mostly made by fans, with the profits from them shared between the creators and Bethesda. They are purchased using a microcurrency, rather than bought outright, and range from cosmetics to new quests.

Of course, plenty of modders are still releasing their mods for free. The Creations tab in Starfield will let you check some of these out, even if you’re playing on console. But for a wider range of mods, Nexus Mods is always the place to go for PC players, with the Starfield page hosting around 7,700 uploads at the time of writing.

It remains to be seen if Bethesda can claw back some goodwill after this unpopular update. It does have the Shattered Space DLC coming soon, and we got an extended look at it in action at the most recent Xbox Games Showcase. Shattered Space doesn’t have a set release date just yet, but Bethesda says it will be with us at some point this year.

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