A desperate PS5 player is launching an online petition to avert the inevitable, demanding that Bethesda’s upcoming role-playing game, Starfield, come to PS5.
What kind of game is this? Starfield is one of the most important games of the year, not only for Microsoft and Bethesda. The developers leave no doubt about how big the sci-fi RPG should be and present it accordingly in elaborate showcases.
But the whole thing has a catch: Starfield is only available for PC and Xbox Series X/S, a release for the PS5 is not planned. That doesn’t sit well with some PlayStation players, as Bethesda’s role-playing forge is also celebrated on Sony’s console for series like Fallout, Doom and The Elder Scrolls.
Now a PlayStation player has made a desperate attempt to get Starfield on the PlayStation by means of a petition – and is making an absurd demand.
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What is this petition? User “Benjamin Dickey” has started a petition titled “Make Starfield a PS5 Exclusive” on the change.org petition site. With this petition, the user requests that the space RPG be released for the PS5, contrary to the current release plan.
The petition also states that Starfield should only be released for the PS5 and not for the Xbox. This is intended to punish Microsoft and Xbox players. But that’s not all: in addition to Starfield, all other future Bethesda games should only appear for PlayStation consoles.
The digital petition was launched on June 15, 2023 and was able to collect just over 1,000 signatures in four days (as of June 19, 2023, 3:30 p.m.).
How promising is the petition? Absolutely not. We probably don’t need to mention that, but there’s no way Starfield will be a PS5 exclusive.
It is quite possible that the entire petition, including the reasons given in the text, is just a joke, but the statements of the petition creator cannot be taken particularly seriously.
In all likelihood, the petition will not change the platforms on which the game will be released, as Microsoft bought Bethesda for $7.5 billion in September 2020.