Starfield players have been urging Bethesda to honor a gaming enthusiast who died before having an opportunity to play the highly anticipated space-based RPG from the studio. The pleas were posted online after a few players had already pledged to be the first to name the Starfield ship in honor of an individual who died in the game.
In the month of March, Alex Hay took to Reddit to express his displeasure over his disappointment at the Starfield launch date announcement informing the world that he'd just ended treatments for cancer of the lung and had been being treated with hospice care. Hay stated that he's been watching Starfield for many years and hoped to play it before passing away, but waiting for the release date until Sept. 6 is "unlikely." Hay advised future players to at the very least have fun in his honor, and then passed away just a few days later, aged 35.
A section of the community then started soliciting Bethesda to come up with an honor in the game to Hay. Their requests have been mostly confined to a tiny Twitter campaign that uses the hashtag #AlexInStarfield. It began in the middle of May. Although the campaign hasn't yet been widely shared Bethesda's YouTube channel Light recently revealed that the studio had been informed of Hay's tragic story. Furthermore, Light shared on Twitter that the studio is "likely" planning to pay tribute to the fan who died in Starfield with unidentified sources.
In the midst of Starfield just months away from its release and a few months away from release, it's unclear if the current version of the game will be able to include an ode to Hay. Even the tiniest changes to complex software such as an AAA open-world RPG take time to put into place so these requests to Hay being immortalized Starfield come with a very brief announcement. With that in mind, it's possible that the game's creator will make tributes to Hay in the next update to the game assuming that it actually implements the plan.
It's not the only tribute to a late gamer that Bethesda has done. In 2016 ZeniMax, a studio owned by the company paid tribute to one of its fans' brothers within Nuka World, the Nuka World DLC for Fallout 4. The studio also presented his family member who died with a variety of objects of collectibles, as well as writing a letter to the developers, expressing their condolences.
Bethesda's community typically sympathizes with these stories. It was evident in the past by fans of the Fallout: 76 community shared an emotional moment in the context of on-screen memorials. Before this, the fandom of the studio has been agitating to get the release of The Elder Scrolls 6 to include a memorial in honor of Colton "Colt" Meredith, who was a long-time Skyrim gamer who died in the year 2020.
Starfield is available on September 6 for PC along with Xbox Series X/S.
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