You can play Starfield on PC and Xbox even if you only buy it once

*this will probably not work with the Steam version
- Yeah, this seems to be using the Xbox play anywhere system. So people who have a PC and an Xbox have thier saves synced. I'm sure it will not work steam.
  
  I still won't buy stuff there, but this is a far better way to make a storefront interesting than Epic. Instead of locking everything behind exclusive deals to try to force people to use your platform, they're adding actual meaningful benefits to using their storefront. Cross ownership is nice. Game pass is nice. That's how you provide competition.
  
  Halo works fine for cross save. You will have to but the game on steam as well though
- Halo and other Xbox titles do. You would have to purchase it on steam but you'd still get access to your saves.
- Fortunately, I have a Win11 boot drive for my Steam Deck.
  
  How is the experience on that?

Woah there hoss, let's make sure it's worth playing on one platform first.
- Unless they fuck it up worse than 76, I'm pretty sure Starfield will likely be remembered the same way Skyrim and Fallout 4 are.
  
  Mediocre successors?
  
  I think there's a good chance that they fuck it up as bad as 76. I'm willing to be proven wrong, Bethesda as a company hasn't done much to convince me otherwise. I'll be honest, their acquisition by Microsoft has only given me more monumental doubts. I think the biggest thing Bethesda has going for it right now is pedigree and the fact that the release of their last big series entry was so long ago that people are forgetting how terrible not just the releases were, but they way they handled them as a company, especially where the pre-order merch was concerned.

We need to find out which system has the most bugs and then play solely on that system for the true Bethesda experience.

That's the screenshot they're going with? Really?
- Ryan was truly a King. It's been just over 10 years since his death.

pcgamesn is scraping the bottom of the barrel, they literally just find ways to say something with starfield in the title. This has been a thing since at least 2016 when FH3 came out.
It's a cool feature, always worth some mention, but baffling that they feel the need to generate a whole article out of this.
- Yup. It's also worth noting that it'll prevent you from playing it on Linux because you can't run most Microsoft Store apps via wine or proton. Have to buy on Steam for that, but then you lose xbox.
  Kinda sucks if you're a Linux user AND have an Xbox lying around.
  
  You can still play cheaply on Xbox with Game Pass, though, if you want to dual wield Starfield.

With Gamepass Ultimate you can do that without even buying it ONCE! Out of all the subscription services I pay for these days, I feel like Gamepass is one of the better values. YMMV of course, but I love it.
- Sadly, nothing good remains that way forever. The structure and terms of Gamepass will eventually change to something less optimal.
  Right now, the focus is to draw in people and create a "loyal" userbase.
  Once they're content with the state of the userbase, they'll start restricting access and features to make people pay extra for different "premiums" and it'll slowly go to shit.
  It is 'the way' of mega-corporations.
  
  I guess. But it's been pretty good for years at this point and it's pretty easy to get REALLY good deals on it if you keep an eye out. I got three years of Ultimate for like $120.
  Either way, just because it may get worse later is no reason not to take advantage now.

That is awesome! Looking forward to the reviews I hope this game delivers everything promised!
- If Todd Howard's hyping of Oblivion, Fallout3, Fallout4, and Skyrim have taught me anything - the game will come nowhere to delivering anything promised - will be massively buggy - and I'll easily sink 100s of hours into the game not caring in the least bit and having a blast the entire time. Purchasing it again and again on every platform as the years pass. Though with gamepass I suppose I don't have to worry about purchasing it anymore.
  While Morrowind was my entry into the series in 2002/2003 - I had never heard of it until my head chef at the time told me I needed to purchase it. His hype delivered. But I have no clue what the hype of Morrowind pre-release was like or what was promised vs delivered. But I imagine it was quite similar.
  
  Only thing I remember pre Morrowind was advertising on graphics cards. My friends only knew about the game because I found the strategy guide at work (electronics boutique) before it came out and I wouldn't stop talking about it.
  I don't think Todd Howard had his leather jacket at the time, so he wasn't all over the place with promises.
  
  Honestly I haven't been following the development or marketing for this game, but I like Todd's games so I know I'll end up buying it.
  
  Without actually remembering anything too well, I do believe marketing around Morrowind was mostly graphics related. It was Beth' switching to full on 3D and Morrowind was pretty advanced in that regard.
  I mean, the screenshots in the magazins sold themselves to anyone with the mind for fantasy. Hell, it's still the most beautiful and alien world to come out of Bethesda to date.

the minecraft model