No Man's Sky: Multiplayer Or Not?

Do we know they were both on PS4? I know it hasn't launched on PC, but you never know.

Like the Dude where's my car reference.

Another question for the longest time until yesterday was if it would ever come out with all the setbacks that have happened.

"10 thousand strong and killing." Such a Mad King thing to say. It's almost like it's a reflex these days.

Somebody should get Car as a tattoo on their back

All of these very low chances are based off the ENTIRE universe. Not the galaxy. You all start in one galaxy, thus drastically increasing the chance. It's also more likely at the start, because, the game just started. He was only 4 systems away. Had this happened in a week, he could be in a different galaxy. And the numbers also ignore people TRYING to meet up. Which just throws those numbers in the garbage.

I don't know, I've been getting hyped about the game fully expecting a solely single-player experience, so this new changes almost nothing for me. That said, I wouldn't be against them patching in co-op multiplayer later on, maybe alongside their base-building promise.

I noticed when I was playing yesterday that when you go into the options menu it was saying on the bottom that I lost conection to the servers... or something like that. Maybe that is what happened to the two players trying to meet up?

That statistic is for people starting off on the same planet. That goes out the window once everyone starts traveling. In that clip he wasn't lying per se. He never explicitly said that you could see each other or directly interact with one another. If the state of the planet's contents (plant/animal life) is shared, then you can change the state of the planet that you're friend owns. That would loosely be "playing with each other". Trying to argue semantics here haha.

I looked at this game as something chill I could do while listening to music or an audiobook. If you can play with other people directly, then that would be cool, but I won't be mad if you can't

Until it's confirmed I can experience the game with another person flying beside me, I have no intentions of getting this game. Singe player is fun and all, but I enjoy having fun and exploring with friends

I just want to point out there are problems with Gamespot's math (or at least the assumptions it starts with) that make it a very bad "estimate" to use. For one thing, it assumes every player is distributed completely randomly across every planet with an even distribution. We know this is probably not the case, because a big part of the game is reaching the center of the universe, so we know that there will most likely at least be some bias against planets closer to the center of the universe. Secondly, it does not take into account the fact that players will be traveling to multiple planets, and have a method for knowing who has been to their location in the past, which has a pretty significant effect on the math and was the exact reason these two players were able to find each other.

Fun Fact, the guy who wrote the Halo music also wrote that "10,000 strong and growing" jingle.

my assumption is that it has something to do with the centre of the universe