Pete Hines, the head of publishing at Microsoft's Bethesda, revealed that the full depth of the upcoming game Starfield unfolds after players complete the main story mission. Hines spent around 80 hours engaging with faction-based questlines and side activities before starting the main story, which took him about 50 hours to finish. Starfield will have more than 1,000 planets for players to discover. A story expansion called Shattered Space and 'a lot of add-on content' are in the works.