Starfield doesn’t just make people happy. An overly committed PlayStation “fan” has started a more than ridiculous petition to undermine Microsoft exclusivity.
Starfield was already the envy of millions of players before the live broadcast on June 11 in the wake of the Xbox Games Showcase. The conference organized as part of the Summer Game Fest 2023 allowed the public to discover in depth the open world game developed by Bethesda. Reassured by the content unveiled during the event, the most impatient wasted no time in rushing to pre-order Microsoft exclusivity and in particular its collector’s edition. But rather than rejoicing in what promises us Starfielda PS5 player has chosen to draw the worst possible arguments to justify the publication of a simply lunar petition.
Starfield, the exclusivity that makes people jealous
On change.org, a “gamer” named Benjamin Dickey posted a petition demanding that Starfield becomes… a PS5 exclusive. At the time of writing these lines, it has already collected more than 2000 signatures. Admittedly, this is very little given the number of video game enthusiasts around the world, but the arguments put forward are so laughable that we prefer to think that it is second degree. The funniest is definitely this one:
Microsoft exclusivity is not good for Starfield itself. It’s simple. If it comes out on Xbox, it’s a bad game. Look at Redfall or Halo Infinite, for example. If it comes out on PlayStation, there’s a 90% chance it’ll be a good game. There’s no other way […]. Unless you want to see Starfield fail, YOU MUST have it on PlayStation.
Benjamin Dickey has visibly badly digested the acquisition of Bethesda by Microsoft in 2021, because he regrets the time when the studio’s games were also released on PlayStation. He also points out that the framerate of Starfield is stuck at 30 FPS on console. This is really the only point on which his criticism is not completely out of place, because some players had a hard time accepting this announcement. In general, the recent AAAs available on PS5 and Xbox Series give players the choice between a performance mode in 1080p at 60 FPS and a mode with native 4K resolution and ray-tracing at 30 FPS. This will not be the case with this “Skyrim in space”, but a release on PS5 would have changed absolutely nothing.
A petition that plays with the limits
In the description of the petition, Phil Spencer, head of Xbox Games Studios, also takes for his rank, accused of not controlling the quality of Xbox exclusives himself before their release. To show his motivation, the PS5 player says he is ready to demonstrate in front of stores on September 6, the day of the launch of Starfield. He even asks other signatories to report all content related to the game and certain content creators who praise its merits until his request is heard… that’s it. Logically, neither Microsoft nor Sony should even mention this grotesque petition, which does not fail to amuse Internet users.