this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
94 points (95.2% liked)
Games
16645 readers
591 users here now
Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)
Posts.
- News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
- Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
- No humor/memes etc..
- No affiliate links
- No advertising.
- No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
- No self promotion.
- No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
- No politics.
Comments.
- No personal attacks.
- Obey instance rules.
- No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
- Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.
My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.
Other communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I know it’s mentioned every time they come up, but man, what an unbelievable 180 NMS pulled off since launch
Maybe for some, I bought the game for the promise of a plethora of flora and fauna, but it is all the same in different colors. As wide as an ocean, as deep as a puddle. I try it with every single update and it got better but it is still not what they teased it to be. Happy for everyone who loves it though.
Not liking it is not the same as not delivering. The game is exactly what they set out to make from the get-go.
That being said at launch they absolutely did not deliver and deserved to be shamed. Though certainly not harassed like they were, unfortunately
It’s more like the people that didn’t like it stopped playing it and the only ones left were the people who actually liked it. The game isn’t for everyone, but while it has had a lot of nice updates, it’s not fundamentally different from what it started as.
Nobody said it was “fundamentally different.” It’s just been iterated on heavily and original promises have been delivered and more. It’s not the same game at launch at all.
When was the last time you actually played it?
Last I played it was a couple years ago.
My impression has always been that people were underwhelmed by the procedurally generated game. Idk exactly what people expected a heavily procedurally generated game to look like. It was never going to have terrain that looked as good as in hand-crafted games.
The only real promise I know they made and initially didn’t keep but later fixed is multiplayer.
It regularly has 10-20k concurrent players on steam despite being 8 years old. Almost 50,000 after the most recent update.
People are clearly not as underwhelmed as you think. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean your opinion is the dominant one.
I completely agree that the game is a lot of breath and not a whole lot of depth in many respects, but that really doesn’t change anything. It clearly pleased a lot of people. Go see the reviews if you doubt me.
You misunderstand.
I like the game. I have always liked the game.
I don’t think there are many people who like the game now who didn’t originally.
It’s not a game for everyone. Some people went in expecting Eve Online or Star Citizen (what a finished Star Citizen would look like). Instead it’s a 3D Starship Omega with a touch of Minecraft. but I liked Starship Omega so I liked No Man’s Sky.
Based on? Because even in 2022 they were selling well. TL;DR: They cleared ~$50mill in revenue on a game with no DLC. So I'd be very curious where you're getting your information from, as that clearly shows they are still selling units.
I never said it was for everyone or anything about expectations.
Let's not enable this to become an actual marketing strategy...
Yeah, other studios will think they can spend eight years making their game better for free
No. They think they can purposefully release a half assed game after promising something entirely different and then drip feed the previously removed content over the years while fixing the purposefully introduced bugs in order to be praised as heroes by gullible simps.
That is already the standard but without the redemption. That's what people applaud here. That they invested in it and not abandoning it.
You clearly need to work on your reading comprehension because no, that is absolutely not the standard already. I'm literally describing an example of literal fraud.
Clearly...
Feel free to give me some example games that removed content before the release, added intentional bugs and then drip fed the removed content back in while "fixing" the intentional bugs for their image. If it is the standard already I'm sure you should have an entire list ready to prove me wrong.
Not everyone is intentionally shitty.
Just the majority.