I know I'm nitpicking, but the thumbs down being a negative in gladiator times is a misconception. Thumbs up was an order to kill your enemy, thumbs down was to drop your weapon once you won.
I learned that last week in my history class, and found it really interesting
My two second Google told me that the exact meaning of each originally is unclear and a 19th-century painter popularised 'thumbs down' signifying death. Glad we all went on this fun journey.
Find the beating a dead horse motion graphic is really on the nose.
Ashley, the only way that Hello Games could recover from this... is seppuku.
Can we file a class-action lawsuit for false advertising so I can get a $.37 check from Hello Games? Please?
brigading? really? You cannot review a game you do not own on steam, so you're suggesting a group all went out and bought it just to review bomb it, i wouldn't waste another second on NMS just to give it a second negative review. don't get me wrong you brought up all the few are far between good stuff about it but really overall the game is a total 'beat the dead space horse' *new disappointment discovered* travel sim and deserves every bad review.
No more crap. No more early access games that never come out. No more big promises. We should end preorders, and refuse to buy games until a review.
You say that, but people will keep falling for preorders, as long as there are preorder bonuses and discounts. People keep reciting "vote with our wallets", but they forget that preordering is basically voting for promises, not for accomplishments. People keep sitting in lines for days for Apple products, before anyone objectively said it was good.
That's the society in which we live now. People blindly throw their money at empty promises and get really butthurt at the backlash. Games are designed and advertised to have a huge hype, and slim chances of refunds. We are approaching the content singularity, at which point people pay to get products with no content, at which all YouTube videos, all news articles are clickbaits. All the good content creators get drowned in the sea of clickbait and false hype, while all the bad content creators say they're entitled of the clickbait methodology, because reasons. Take Funhaus, as an example. Look at reaction channels on YouTube- people get paid to record themselves looking blankly at computer monitors. Why? I have no idea.
like ashley said, it has bits that are enjoyable but they are the main focus of the game, it needs.. eh nvm fuck that game
The reason for me purchasing this game was the challenge of finding friends in the universe. We as a species have done the same thing for a very long time. Finding others in the vast unknown. This is what appealed to me in this game. We were promised multiplayer function and then denied that. They have broken the false advertising laws. They lied about content for profit and you can't get a refund because in order to verify that you have to play longer than the steam refund period would allow. We will see no refunds though. This is like someone selling you a Corvette and when it arrives it is a Camry and they refuse to answer your calls. Funny how a company called Hello games can't pick up the phone. When it comes to fans in the future I believe that we will say goodbye to Hello and find a company with a sense of morals.
Whenever I hear "Good news everyone!" I'm thinking about the new Dacia Sandero, and how it's coming out SOON. :D
Whenever I hear "Goods news everyone!" I immediately start thinking of Futurama!
You know, if a few people took the time to give Hello Games any useful feedback, they would probably be able to use it to make the game better. I understand that it didn't turn out to be what people wanted, but would you rather have a broken piece of $60 garbage, or in 6 months have a functional game? If this game had an "early access" tag on steam, everyone would think it was the greatest thing in the world. But if you run the company into the ground, there is absolutely no chance of the game ever being fixed.
There are plenty of helpful people who have in detail described what can be done to patch up the game to what was promised, what was shown in trailers, what was envisioned by Seam Murray etc. The problem is that they have been drowned out by the deafening roar of people who have been conned... and ultimately there is no doubt that the advertising for this game was untruthful, therefore it was a con (knowingly or not). I've no sympathy for the company or for those who want them to fix it; get a refund (there are plenty of routes to take to achieve that, including suing them) and find a better game - not difficult since Elite: Dangerous is sitting right there for you!
People tend to follow a certain mentality. They see people don't like the game, they won't either. One person downvotes this comment, someone else will see it and think "Huh, someone thought this guy is a pill. I guess he is," and also downvote it.
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What is that man doing? Is he jacking off with a cane? No... he appears to be beating a horse... and the horse looks dead... Oh...
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