Often they champion a game's single-player status, but we haven't quite seen that yet with Starfield.

That being said, Bethesda hasn't outright said there will be no multiplayer in-game yet either. It seems pretty clear that Bethesda doesn't consider multiplayer to be a part of its game plan for its major games, and instead will deliver them as separate games if they do at all. After all, Fallout 4 (in essence) got multiplayer with the oft-maligned Fallout 76, which still managed to sell at least couple million copies. Maybe most importantly of all, Bethesda has already answered our question about multiplayer in their big expansive RPGs: when they want to have multiplayer, they'll make it a separate game. None of Bethesda's previous big hits have needed more than their single player to be released five times, so why would Starfield buck that trend?

Furthermore, if you look back at Bethesda's history of major hits, from Fallout 4 to Skyrim, there's very little reason for them to deviate from their formula.

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