Ad watchdog looking at No Man's Sky (Gaming)

by dogcow , Hiding from Bob, in the vent core., Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 18:56 (2985 days ago) @ Kahzgul

I think No Man's Sky is unique, and I honestly have a little sympathy for Hello Games. I don't think they realized how their initial reveal would capture so many people's imaginations, and after that the pressure to feed the hype train was too great, and I honestly don't believe that pressure came from within Hello Games. I don't think features were hawked with the intent to deceive, but they weren't able to execute on every "feature" they mentioned by ship date.

Had No Man's Sky stayed under the radar (and perhaps been a slightly cheaper digital-only release), I think people would be blown away by it. Did they set out to make a AAA game with Collector's editions, bonuses, talk show appearances and all that jazz? I don't think so. Size is the complicating factor when it comes to categorizing it, though, and was always going to be bullet point for the game. No Man's Sky is an infinitely large small game.

I mostly agree. The vast majority of the hype was just fanboys making things up and telling other people it would be in the game. "OMG I can't wait to be a space pirate and rule star systems!" Yeah dude, that's not a thing in this game. It's not even close to a thing. "I'm gonna get all my friends and we're gonna travel together everywhere!" Well, no, you're not.

Totally agree. I think the majority of people fell victim to the fanboy hype. I got exactly what I was expecting out of the game and I've really enjoyed the time spent messing around in game. I think a lot of "missing features" have been taken from comments that were either taken out of context or blown out of proportion. There were some legitimate things that just didn't happen, like being able to see someone else, but he did say you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between them & an AI so... yeah, he made some mistakes of over promising, and I'm sure he's learned a lesson regarding what the internet will do with the words you utter.