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Starfield
Average Sentiment
0.90
Average Monthly Article Count
23.52
First Article Date: April 2013
Highest Monthly Average Sentiment
1.00
Month: November 2021
Lowest Monthly Average Sentiment
0.77
Month: March 2023
Total Articles Count
3,058
Most Active Authors
- Christian Miller - Game Rant (104 articles)
- Dominik Bošnjak - Game Rant (103 articles)
- Dalton Cooper - Game Rant (71 articles)
Article Source Distribution
Game Rant: 62.30%
IGN: 11.61%
Kotaku: 9.78%
Article Count Frequency Trend
Increasing
Historical Trends of Starfield
Starfield
Genre: Action Role-Playing
Mode: Single-Player
Release Date: September 6, 2023
Description:Starfield is an action RPG set in the Milky Way galaxy, offering first-person and third-person perspectives, where players can explore over 1,000 planets, moons, and space stations with procedurally generated and handcrafted content. Players customize their character, select traits that impact gameplay, and recruit NPCs for various roles, including combat and exploration. The game features diverse weapons, resource extraction, and crafting, alongside spaceship customization and combat, with a focus on strategic skill development and exploration in a vast open-world environment.
Historical Trends Summary
Starfield is the newest release covered on Game Sentiment* but also has one of the lengthiest coverage histories due to its incredibly early announcement back in 2013, and a series of release delays that pushed back the ultimate delivery date on more than one occassion. Even more Peculiar is that Starfield also has the single highest one month article count for a game title on Game Sentiment*, with 1,148 articles in September 2023 during its launch. This is likely a combination of the hype built by its developer, Bethesda Studios, plus the prestige that the game developer holds.
Additional Observations
Speculation around the Starfield title first began in April of 2013, when observers noted that the then parent company Zenimax had sought to file a trademark of "Starfield". It would not be until 2018 that the game was publicly announced, although there was not much coverage apart from its announcement due to the secretive nature of the project. It was first to be delivered in November of 2022, but was pushed back to September of 2023 following Microsofts aquisition of Bethesda. After years of waiting and little game play releases, players were wuick to delve into the world of Starfield. However, despite widespread aclaim from critics, players were quick to criticism the games slow pace and constant parade of load screens to journey to just one location.
Starfield currently holds a sentiment of 0.90 amongst gaming news outlets, the exact score it held the month of its launch. Despite praise from these sources and exploration of the games many mechanics, Starfields players had a wildly different perception of the game. According to the Steam charts, Starfield currently holds a mixed rating of 62% while more recent reveiws are mostly negative at 32%. At the moment, it is unknown whether this will be reflected in gaming media going into the future.
Count of Articles by Authors
Source Rankings
Highest Average Sentiment Authors
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1 Lauren Beeler-Beistad (Source: Game Rant, 16 articles)1.00
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2 Chris Drumm (Source: Game Rant, 32 articles)1.00
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3 Joseph Sacco (Source: Game Rant, 12 articles)1.00
Lowest Average Sentiment Authors
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1 Anthony Bussing (Source: Game Rant, 11 articles)0.45
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2 Jason Rodriguez (Source: Gamespot, 43 articles)0.68
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3 J Brodie Shirey (Source: Game Rant, 17 articles)0.76
% of Total Articles by Source
Authors & Source Summary
Starfield's largest contributor to its article count and its most positive publisher is Game Rant, with the data showing that the news outlets has a historical sentiment score of 0.91 and comprises 62.3% of the total Starfield articles. The remaining four outlets are largely evenly split amongst the remaining articles. Starfields high sentiment score of 0.90 is largely driven by its two largest contributors, Game Rant and IGN which are likely to be the driving force behind its score.
Even the composition of journalists is overwhelming dominated by Game Rant, although IGN consists more of many smaller contributions by journalists rather than a few large contributors. In terms of journalist sentiment, all three of the top journalists report perfectly positive scores of 1.0 and are all published through Game Rant. Conversely, only one journalist was reported to have a negative sentiment of Starfield.
Additional Observations
Game Rant is the dominating source of coverage for Starfield, accounting for 1,905 of the 3,058 articles or 62.3% of the total. The second largest source of articles is IGN with 355 of the 3,058 articles, or 11.6% of the total. Both of these news outlets report sentiment score above the historical average for Starfield of 0.91, just 0.01 above the average. Combined these two news outlets account for nearly three quarters of all articles, and have a larger sway on the games sentiment. However, when evenly weighted across sources the average sentiment still turns out at nearly 0.89, which is just 0.01 below the current average.
In regards to journalists, IGN's focus on many smaller contributions by journalists rather than a few dominating names means that depite accounting for 11.6% of the articles, it publishes more than 20% of the total journalists covering Starfield or 71 of the 343. This largely takes away from other news sources like Game Rant and Kotaku, who despite accounting for 62.3% amd 9.8% of the articles only publish 56% and 5% of the journalists.
Given Game Rant's heavily positive sentiment of Starfield and its large pool of journalists, it is not surprising to see all of the top 3 journalists are all published by Game Rant and they all report perfectly positive scores. These journalists are Lauren Beeler-Beistad (16 articles), Chris Dumm (32 articles), and Joseph Sacco (12 articles). Conversely, only one journalists in the data is shown to have a negative sentiment while publishing more than 10 articles, Anthony Bussing (11 articles) with a score of 0.45, and is surprisingly published by Game Rant