I could totally see a graphic overall and a few more mechanics and them giving away some massive awesome spaceships instead of costing a few K for free and people being like shit, we got this for less than £40 (I got it on sale for probably half that, barely played it (Yet) and feel it was a good purchase).
Minecraft pretty much, and that's what Hello Games took as their model for No Man's Sky.
You are right. But you know what, that's some amazing company to be with.
I did too and I picked it up two years ago and it's been worth IMO. It's on Game Pass if you are subbed. If not, it's still worth it.
ah, shit. Well, there goes my strat for the alien eggs to convert to nanites.
Yeah a lot of games actually have as good or better support. Terraria and Bloons TD for example. Many others also.
Plenty of popular indie games have been regularly patched with new content for years on end without signs of it stopping anytime soon, not to mention all the big MP GaaS titles, but yes, NMS is certainly a pretty commendable high profile case.
The crazy thing is they have a cosmetic shop with its own currency that they regularly add to and they still give that shit away for free.
Next Update patch notes:
Yeah. I always dig a hole and quickly seal it behind me to get away.
Not GaaS and no MTX, it just sells really well every time one of these updates drop
Here's some more. There's a star system players are using to leave memorial messages to lost loved ones.
nomanssky.fandom.com
No microtransactions or DLC of any kind. The big reasons why they can keep doing this:
New sales with each update. They also discount it each time as well.
Same. The way it's meant to evoke 70s/80s optimistic sci fi sounds great for me, but everything being procedural means no hand-crafted level or creature design and that sounds immensely off-putting.
