http://www.gamezone.com/news/no-man-s-sky-founder-backtracks-could-get-paid-dlc-3442515

Sean Murray promised there would be no paid DLC, we would recieve free updates since we had already paid $60 for the game. That was last week. Looks like that's already changed as Sean has gone back on that and said that Paid DLC is possible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4wxydf/im_about_to_meet_another_player_seriously/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no_mans_sky_we_were_sold_on_a_big_list/

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4y046e/wheres_the_nms_we_were_sold_on_heres_a_big_list/
The original thread was unpinned and deleted, not sure why. Added a repost on /r/games and there is a cached version of the original in the comments.

Sean Murray promised there would be multiplayer but it would be very difficult to find one another. Soon after the game launched two streamers met up at the same place at the same time and could not see each other. The game is singleplayer. Sean has been very vague about everything since the begining and we're starting to know why. Above is a list showing the content that was planned and what is shown is an entirely different No Man's Sky. The game is not what they have promised and it not what was shown pre-launch or at E3. As you will read in many of the reviews, this game is not worth $60. No Man's Sky has a lot of good and can definitely be enjoyable. At it's core it is a great space exploration game that I could see myself enjoying but the content that currently exists in the game is closer to $20-$30.

The PC port is a complete mess that a very large amount of people have significant performance problems such as very low FPS, significant stuttering and hitching, and dropping to less than a third of your average FPS after an hour of play until restarting the game. Many can't even play the game. The resolution option does not change the resolution as the in game resolution is a set sub 1080p resolution (nobody knows the exact resolution from what I can tell) and is upscaled. Every graphics option other than FPS limit and FOV require a restart. Some graphics features aren't changeable such as chromatic abberation, any LOD or view distance settings, and ambient occlusion. There are control bindings that don't exist for mouse and keyboard as well such as free cam as a pilot.

The player count average has dropped from over 200,000 to about 30,000-50,000 within the first week of launch. This is likely because the gameplay consists of mining resources from a planet to reach the next planet to mine resources in addition to the many performance and stability problems.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4xfrgb/defending_bad_pc_launches_ruins_the_future_of_pc/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_video_game_development

Please do not defend the developers because they are indie, are a small studio, or because "games have launch issues." First off, they have had significant financial support from Sony Entertainment Studios which brings into debate whether or not they're actually an indie studio. Secondly, if you are going to charge full price $60 for a product, it is reasonable to expect that product would have the content of a full priced game as well as work like one. Some say that the game is not complete and we should have known that going in. No Man's Sky released as a finished title for a full $60. A Full release is a full release will be treated like a full release. If you are considering buying No Man's Sky I encourage you to wait until either Hello Games gets their ♥♥♥♥ together or the community does it for them and pick it up at $30 or less price point.

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If you find errors or wrong information in my review, let me know, but ONLY if you provide valid evidence.

Before we start an angry mob I want to get something straight. I don't think we should start grabbing the pitchforks quite yet and I didn't make this review to make Sean Murray the devil. I come off a tad aggressive because yeah, it's pretty disappointing when something like this happens. However, I think it's very possible Sean and his team could have been in a very difficult situation where they really didn't have a right answer. He always seems anxious and stressed during interviews. Being in a 15 man team behind such an ambitious project with hype levels we haven't seen in awhile, partially because of Sony's marketing, it's understandable. It's also possible that when you invole a third party some power over the project is lost. Things are rarely black and white. Consider the situation on the other side of all of this before we go demonizing anyone. I think we should give No Man's Sky and Hello Games a few weeks to see where things go, see how they react to and handle the situation and let them show their true colors.

Though the majority of the list displaying the lack of content seems to be true, there is another post that is showing that a few parts are not, specifically planet terrain features, plant life, and some animal life. That still leaves many features missing but it can also mean it has not been experienced yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/4y0fbx/just_because_you_personally_have_not_seen/

I played this game for 23 hours, and I did not have fun.

Some will say "You must have been having fun, otherwise you wouldn't have played it for 23 hours. Why didn't you stop after 5 hours?"

The answer to that is: Because I BELIEVED it would get better. I had faith. People kept saying things like this:

"Planets get more interesting closer to the center."
"You just haven't given the game enough time yet. It gets better once you get more inventory slots."
"Keep playing, I've had an amazing time."

Lets say someone came to me and said "Lets dig to the center of the Earth. Theres a pot of gold there and you will be rich. Heres a shovel", and I start digging. After 10 hours I say "This sucks. I'm going back up the ladder."

The gentleman says "No keep digging. It will get better. It will be worth it."

After 23 hours of digging I'm still having a terrible time. Do I give up and say "that was no fun", or do I keep digging?

How about if I had paid 40 quid for the shovel?

This game was falsely advertised, plain and simple.

There are a large amount of features and content in the game that were advertised and talked about by the developers that were cut in the last few months before release. I could get into the poor PC release but the other reviews cover that just as well.

I will keep playing the game because unfortunately I have been looking forward to what was advertised for the last 2 years and hope that it is brought to that point through FREE updates.

As of right now I believe everyone who bought this game is entitled to a refund with no exceptions, Sony and Hello Games are possibly up for some legal trouble. They are even using trailers on THIS VERY PAGE that have features in them that are not in the final game.

Aaaaaaaaaand it's gone! 20 hours of gameplay down the drain. 3 corrupted savegames.
It was fun to play, but repetitive. Didn't mind that to much. but to start over because of a stupid bug, no thank you!
looking around the internetz to find a sollution and see so many people have this issue and so little of them got a working sollution.
I know this is a small studio that works on this game, but this is not acceptable in a full release game.

This game is a giant lie. Shawn Murray should be ashamed of himself. Do not buy this game and do not support devs like this.

If you dont believe me just watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8P2CZg3sJQ

Game runs smoothly for me with the occasional frame rate drop, every few hours, prompting a relaunch. This is not a jab at performance issues, optimization, or most of what had been posted already.

Side note: I preorderd in April.

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As it stands, No Man's Sky is a fantastic, casual, space exploration experience with small hints of resource gathering, trade, and story/lore elements. I honestly feel that the most interesting element is learning the histories of the alien races and their languages in order to better communicate with them and aid in their various tasks for you... untill you notice just how frequntly those same tasks repeat themselves, reward you with the same blueprints, and even, "Seriously?! I've spent hours learning over 300 words in your damn language and your sentence only has one of them!"

After only 60+ hours since late Friday, August 12, the awe of the game I've waited so intently on has been worn away by the overly simplified gameplay that is seriously lacking in all aspects of what the fans were promised. Took me a lot longer than most people but I suppose my hope carries me that much further into, "Oh I'm sure I just haven't gotten to the point where you can do that thing they said you could." or "Well, this kinda sucks but maybe they'll add it in with a patch or hell, I'll even buy a DLC."
My issue with No Man's Sky is not one of unrealistic or erroneously contrived expectations. My issue is one that has been plaguing games for decades and more recently grown out of controll to unacceptable levels, almost becoming what is normal in developement: Broken Promises and Cut Content

A reddit post by MeetWayneKerr detailing the massive amout of content and features, both spoken of and actually shown, that were cut from No Man's Sky.

I understand that cutting content can be necessary for a number of reason but if it is unintentional or had to be done at least give us the reasons. The trend is obviously filling trailers with content solely for selling copies of what is apparently intended to only include a fraction of what is shown.

There is plenty on what Sean Murray said he did and did not want No Man's Sky to be, and people are certainly giving it far too much grief for wanting it to be something it was never intended to be, however, annoying run-on sentence aside, this plays like what would result if Elite: Dangerous and Minecraft hooked up, had a baby and then dropped it down the stairs on its 3rd birthday.

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I actually felt really bad writing that last part. Still, most of you will not enjoy this game

As for right now. It's impressive. The game is massive and nobody is going to explore it all by themselves. I've never tried harder to like a game in my life. I hopped on the hype train at their e3 trailer. I knew this game would be someting else, and it most defenitly was.

The sense of direction they've given you is very minor, almost non existant. You mine some stuff. get rid of some stuff to mine more stuff. Bring it to your ship and off you go to another planet. There's no building you can do, you can't inhabit a planet. You're lost. you have a ship and whatever you can find to survive.

Good parts about this game, though.
-Amazing soundtrack.
-You won't do much/any backtracking
- Can prove a challenge
- Freaking MASSIVE

Bad parts
-Not for everyone
- Hype train ruined what was supposed to be a small exploration game
- Repetitive
- Planets are re-skinned and the animals ARE NOT what you see in the trailer.


All in all the game isn't bad, but isn't great. There are multiple games i would reccomend before No Mans Sky. This is also not worth the 60 dollars. 30 would be a reasonable price range.

Indie Game quality. Less polished than Ark.

It's fun, sure it's not an action game. It's very much about taking your time and I like that. But for 75AUD I can not recommend it. It's simply not worth that much.

Screenshots and trailer also don't represent the game at all. Please look for in game footage on YouTube before you buy, it's nothing like advertised. At least see what you're paying for before you make up your mind.

As for what we have, it kinda ended up like Spore, great in theory but execution has holes. Looking forward to updates, hopefully we'll see that E3 quality down the track.

No Man's Sky is the biggest disappointment of 2016.

Procedurally generated lies. x)