No Man's Sky Subreddit CLOSES?

I don't even know why I have these down votes.

Id have a good laugh if they finally break their silence to announce No Man's Sky 2

This is just a small nitpick, but the username is ROUGE wolf (as in the color red, rouge), not ROGUE wolf. I'm just a little surprised no one caught that, for how many times it was referenced.

I love this game, solely for the news it generates.

Blaine looks like he's holding a poop in.

Here is what happened with No Man's Sky. Sean Murray made the game he wanted to play. (Happens that I totally agree with his tastes. I spent hundreds on 1950s scifi pulps on ebay because I prefer it to the juvenile drivel that's released today.) Because Sean Murray wanted to try something different, keep the game a mystery to be unravelled by each player individually at launch, game media, fans and haters converged to fill in the gaps. They called it space minecraft, coined catchy headlines, etc. 

The nitpicking about missing features, false advertising and the fact that it's hip to hate on a game and it's creator when most haven't played it or never got past a couple hours, is ridiculous. People are used to hating on huge companies with thousands of employees across continents, they're just a big amorphous entity to channel discontent at. Hello Games, Sean Murray and No Man's sky are much different. It's like the difference between criticizing a building as you pass and giving death threats directly to the architect. 

Look at the AAA games that came out recently that had roughly the same development cycle, hundreds or thousands of people working on them and were missing features or had features removed. The Division, GTA Heists, Watch_Dogs, just to name the most prominent. Compare the hate these got with NMS. It's barely a comparison. It sickens me and saddens me. 

Sure Sean Murray could have been more open in development, could have asked what features, what game players wanted, but he tried something different and the internet formed a bandwagon and decided to burn him in effigy. Right before NMS came out, I watched a compilation of every interview Sean did. 3 hours, I think? I then bought and played the game and I didn't notice any changes. I usually avoid reviews and form my own opinions, as reviewers always feel the need to add some negatives, often nitpicking tiny things you won't notice unless they're pointed out. I have had too many games ruined for me, and I eat $60 now and then, but generally I'm very good at knowing what I will like.

There are so many misconceptions about the game, so many people don't understand the core concepts that make up the game. So much else is lost in an internet wide game of telephone. People taking things out of context, taking things from the literal first months of development and complaining that it isn't in the final game 3 years later. For instance, there is a core misunderstanding of the procedural generation. Procedural is random with rules to weed out the nonsense. The Shuffle feature on iOS used to be random, but people imagined patterns, as the truly random choice was sometimes in the same album, artist, etc. Apple went back with a procedural model that gave rules so these 'patterns' wouldn't occur. Same with NMS. People say that all the planets look the same. That's the point. It's not supposed to be easy to find a unique planet (ignoring the permutations between all of them) Finding a really out there planet is difficult, but do people care? No. They ignore the awesome and one of a kind worlds the probably didn't come across in their 45 minutes of play before their refund. 

Wow, I'm so glad that I didn't buy this game.  

I think I'm getting more entertainment from all the news being drummed up than actually playing the game.

I actually like the game, i know i'm in the minority but i have fun in it with what is there.

It seems like most people who actually play the game and not just shit all over it are over at r/nomanshigh. R/NoMansSkyTheGame has been a dumsterfire of negativity for so long it's not funny. Good forbid anyone enjoy the game.

I don't have any feelings one way or another about NMS, so this is 100% an outside perspective, but although Sean Murray's twitter has been silent since mid-August, the Hello Games twitter is still alive and talking and pushing out updates. https://twitter.com/hellogames So, it's not exactly radio silence.