Former Bethesda employee admits mistakes were made.

[Kraven12]

https://www.gamereactor.eu/bethesda-on-starfield-exploration-did-not-turn-out-the-way-we-intended-1320963/ 

 

This may be old, but worth a read and may give more fire to the Starfield rant thread.

 

My apologies for that. 

[Gray User]

It's a reasonable concern, but, assuming a skyrim or fallout 4 sized modding community, maybe better to have a bunch of empty planets that modders can add stuff to. If the game ships with 25 worlds and they are all packed with vanilla content....where will people put a recreated lambda complex from half life? 

 

Also, if the discussions here are an indication, there are apparently people who complain that the universe is not empty enough, b/c 'realism'. 

 

tl;dr. I'm glad they went ahead and added all the empty worlds, but haters gonna hate.