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This game is such a train wreck. It’s got everything I should want and nothing that compels me to play it. Every update is a false promise. I wish it were good.

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It's a game I describe as "addictively boring". I'm about 300+ hours in. It's my version of a rock garden.

Space exploration itself involves quite a lot of boredom, I’m told.

I've got a 100 or so hours in it and some aspects are wonderful. Some are "meh".

But it's far, far from a track wreck.

No Man's Sky is a typical sales driven product, first you lie to users about what capabilities it has and sell it to them, and then you use the money you got from those sales to build some of the features you said you already had until the customers stop complaining.

I don't think it was premeditated.

What makes you so angry about this? To me it's one of those peculiar, flawed creative works that I'm glad exists. The world would be poorer without it.

Have you played it recently? The Beyond update added VR support which made it worth buying for me by itself.

Before release, Hello Games said that the game was multiplayer, but the universe was so incredibly large that no two players could ever find each other. They did, within a couple days of release. The players couldn't see each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8P2CZg3sJQ

Hello Games encountered a lot of hardship during development. Their studio actually flooded towards the end of development so they lost a lot of data. But that doesn't excuse lying.

I feel like that was similar to when Elon musk announced that Tesla had a buyer. Turned out to not be the case, and he got in trouble for it. But I don’t think that either he or Sean Murray intended to Deceive. They just got too far ahead of themselves on what they expected to happen. but you are right, that still does not make it right.

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