Bethesda’s new title,Starfield, is currently only available for players who bought the premium edition, but that hasn’t stopped it from being played by over200,000 concurrent users.
There are more people playingStarfieldright now than there are populating the city I live in. That’s not entirely surprising, as it’s one of the most anticipated releases of the year. It’s always a big event when Bethesda drops a new open-world title, whether it’sElder Scrolls,Fallout, or a new IP likeStarfield.
However, for comparison, right now as I write this, last month’s big game,Baldur’s Gate 3,has over 400,000 concurrent players.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, on the other hand, has 1.2millionpeople on its servers right now. That’s obscene. Does this mean thatStarfieldisn’t as nova-hot as many expected? No. Right now, a lot of people are waiting for the Xbox Game Pass version to play or were simply unwilling to pony up for the Premium Edition.
I sure as heck wasn’t. I’ve not played the game yet, thoughI hear it’s fantastic. I’m just not that hyped for it. I probably would be over-jazzed if it wasElder ScrollsorFallout, but those are universes I’m already well-invested in. I’ve played space exploration games before and still do occasionally. I’ve never thought to myself, “this would be better if it was more likeElder Scrolls.” That’s not to say I don’t thinkStarfieldwill be good, or that I’m not at all interested in playing it – I’ll definitely be firing it up once it’s on Game Pass.
What I am saying is that I’m more likely to be found playing the games I’ve pulled out of a dumpster than one that clocks over 200K users at once. In other words, I have no taste.
Starfieldwill be available for PC and Xbox on Jun 17, 2025. However, you can be like the 200,000 people playing it right now if you pay for the Premium Edition.
