Todd Howard's promise of 1,000 planets scares players away from Starfield

Bethesda showcased Starfield gameplay, and Todd Howard outlined a rough picture of what to expect. Some found this alarming

At the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022, Starfield gameplay was shown along with some details about the game. Todd Howard took part in the presentation of the Bethesda project.

Among other things, he mentioned that Starfield will offer players more than 1,000 planets available for exploration. Such scale began to scare away some potential players.

This is because with such a large number of planets, each of them can hardly be crafted to an adequate level. It may turn out that there is little point in visiting them.

User FreyaHolmer describes their feelings like this: “when you tell me your game has thousands of planets to visit, you basically just tell me I can’t expect good/interesting/human-made level design [meaning that all the work will be left to a planet generator]”.

Starfield is scheduled for release in 2023.