Starfield ● Pete Hines: Starfield is not over yet.

Just a week ago on May 13th, I posted in my group the news that Starfield had officially received age ratings. The logos of ESRB and PEGI organizations appeared on the official website of the project. Many news sites have written about this too. According to the ESRB website, the preliminary rating can only be used for promotional materials, but its presence does not mean that the development of the game is complete.

However, the German company USK, which imposes an age limit, mainly rates the video game when its development is completed. And in general, practice shows that most projects are always evaluated by such organizations when the evaluated product is fully completed.

There was a hype on the network, they discussed all this, and asked Pete Hines how he could comment on this. Pete Hines decided to clarify this situation and answered the question about age ratings in a tweet. He says that he did not know about it at all and called it just a glitch or an error on the site and asked to sort it out and fix it.

As I understand it, we are talking about the developers of the Besedki site. And here I want to speak. Dear, Pete, everyone who is engaged in website development knows very well that there are no such glitches, the placement of the code is handmade, any information is written by web developers, any placement of banners, logos, and other things on the site is the handiwork of those who are engaged in the site.

There can be only one glitch in this case - information about the age rating of the game on the site appeared ahead of time. But the rating is set not by one organization, but by different ones, including European ones, or is it also a glitch? The age rating itself was assigned, and posted on the site, miracles and only.When Pete calls it a glitch, you immediately remember children who will break or turn over houses, and when they are caught by their parents doing this, there is an eternal excuse in style "it is itself." But what can I say, only the vacancies that have appeared over these six months on the company's website in the very division that is engaged in the game about finding qualified editors and creators of game trailers would already be enough to understand that an advertising campaign is being prepared.

All of them appeared before the worldwide isolation. When Bethesda was going to hold an offline event with the presentation of projects as always. Then the appearance of the age rating on the official website from the various organizations that assign them.

And the terms of registration of the trademark are coming to an end, and according to the trademark law in the United States, the company must already roll out some kind of advertising materials on the game, otherwise the trademark will be canceled. I had a whole separate video about this on the channel.

So many factors indicate that the game has already been completed, it has been assigned an age rating, the creation of promo materials is in full swing, and Pete Hines is reporting a glitch on the site. Personally, in this situation I do not believe his words.

The only thing that can push the game trailer aside is the presentation format. Perhaps a whole show was planned at the Gazebo, with the involvement of some celebrities or artists, maybe a special orchestra, decorations in a space entourage. As you remember, it was with the pompous presentation of Skyrim.

These people in hoods, the choir in the background, the smoke creeping across the floor, a maximum of pathos, it all looked really cool. Therefore, the presentation of such a large long-term construction project from their apartments on a webcam with the usual showing of a trailer, of course, cannot be compared with such a show that can be arranged live on the stage.

Certainly not the fact that the game is not over. And the words of Pete Hines about the glitch do not sound as convincing as possible. I usually believe the statements of company officials, but not this time. Sorry. The release of the game will most likely be postponed for at least another year, and the point is not in the unfinished project, but in connection with all the events in the world.