No Man's Sky Gets PAID DLC?

I don't see how he didn't lie or mislead people, i mean did you see the list of all promised things that are no where to be seen in the game?

I haven't read any of his interviews and haven't been following the game. That being said, promising more then he's able to deliver isn't the same as lying.

I kind of agree. We all need to remember that Hello Games is an indie studio. They are new to making games, launching games, and doing post-launch maintenance. They really don't know what they are doing. I'm sure him saying all DLC will be free was born from inexperienced naivety. He was probably literally told what he later was quoted as saying, which was that some of the updates may need to be charged for. Some of his plans may take so much work and time that they need to compensated or it just can't happen.

I actually think him announcing this so soon is good. To me, I feel like he made a starry eyed promise and then someone more grounded and experienced told him the truth and he came out and admitted his misunderstanding. I get the feeling that since this is such a quick turn around it is really him telling us literally as soon as he found out he may have been wrong in his initial statement. Which i respect him for a lot; if that's true.

A lot of the blame's down to Sony I'd think too. It definitely feels like HelloGames were forced into announcing it too early and giving it an unrealistic release date. The game's not what they wanted to release and I don't blame HelloGames for that.

What exactly did the day one patch change?

@Glyphwright Inventory management was the biggest thing. Beforehand you could only carry about a tenth of what you can now so it meant a lot more travelling back and forth. Other things like rarity of minerals, there wasn't any space-station variety and the worlds seemed all fairly similar. Made a massive difference imo.

It's more of a Peter Molyneux controversy than a Phil Fish controversy.

well, it depends on the future. If they charge for dlc on stuff they had promised would be in the initial purchase, I completely understand the hate. now if they free patch the shit they said would be in, into the game, then pay dlc shit that is brand new and not talked about, ok yeah people should calm down.

that said, we must use the past to extrapolate the future, and so far, he has either misspoke at best or flat lied at worst.

literally telling ppl this "thing" would be in game on multiple occasions literally saying there would be no paid dlc then saying after ppl bought the game gotcha you have to pay for dlc thanks for that $60 you just wasted on maybe 20$ game. Ark: survival evolved is 25$ has way more content and alll of their dlc has been 100% free and it has dinos and multiplayer AND has community created mods for its game that can be use on private servers and a lot of the mods made have been used to improve the game its self with reward and compensation to the original modders. even though the terms and service would allow them to use those mods with 0 compensation this is an example of a good indie company. hello games is not.

It's less about the hype generated and more about promised features missing, the reddit list shows how many features that were not only promised, but also shown in game trailers. I don't like being promised and shown something and then not getting it, along with the rest of the internet and probably human race.

To be fair, you did play the game for over 30h, and that's well over what some other games offer. I'm not defending No Man's Sky because I don't really care about the game, but if you paid 60$ for 30 hours of "fun" in a game, then you probably got "more" than if you bought a 5-6 hours long narrative experience for the same price... right?

God, I'm not a fan of the state of the gaming industry nowadays.

I agree and disagree, Sure there are lots of games that have less than 30 hours of gameplay, but many of those are indie titles that don't cost 60 dollars. Of course I could be wrong and there might be triple A titles that are really crappy as well. The last Triple A game I bought was The division, and yes, it did not meet up to the standards that was promised, but it had enough content that when I did stop playing I felt like that 60 dollars was well spent. Now i'm assuming you are referring to the telltale story games, and sure 10 bucks for 1 hour doesn't sound good on paper, you are going in for a different experience, I treat those narrative games as a film, you pay 10-15 dollars to see a 2 hour movie. It's more of a narrative driven experience with minimal gameplay and less of a game. I'm not mad at the game because it's not the game I thought it would be, i'm mad at the game because it's not the game it advertised it would be and I'm sure most will agree with this part, a few lies. To respond to your statement, me personally, I would take 5-6 narrative games over No Man's Sky.

...Storage space is not the only tech limitation in the world.

No but when a game is 5-6 gigs it implies there isn't much to it