No Man's Sky

seel wrote
floattube wrote

Guess they shouldn't have rushed it out the door.

Definitely needed to be delayed, but I'd imagine Sony was putting pressure on it getting out the door. I look forward to seeing what updates they push out in the next couple months.

I'm sure they will fix it with updates, but I just think it is ridiculous that they HAVE to do that. I don't understand why games can't just work nowadays. I mean it's one thing if it is a few bugs but when a majority of players can't even get the game to run it shouldn't be released.

floattube wrote
seel wrote
floattube wrote

Guess they shouldn't have rushed it out the door.

Definitely needed to be delayed, but I'd imagine Sony was putting pressure on it getting out the door. I look forward to seeing what updates they push out in the next couple months.

I don't understand why games can't just work nowadays.

Because patches are much easier for consumers to download these days.

Think about it: Back before broadband, a patch for a game could potentially take a full day to download. Usually they were just balance tweaks; exceedingly rare was it for devs push out a patch adding new content to the game. If you were going to add a huge chunk to the game, that meant printing it on physical media and shipping it out as an expansion pack.

Now fast-forward to today. With internet speeds being what they are, devs have two options for adding content to their game: Either you push them out as free patches (as Blizz is doing with Overwatch), or divvy them up and sell them piecemeal as DLC (as EA has done with... pretty much everything in recent memory.)

NMS appears to be opting for the former. Only difference being that Overwatch could've still been successful if it was left as-is, whereas NMS has glaring technical issues that would torpedo its market appeal if the dev didn't promise to patch them.

Now comes the question on whether they'll deliver. It's not entirely uncommon for certain developers to promise patches for a title as a method of letting the fans down easy. Though I'm not saying that's the case for No Man's Sky, I can't help but wonder how much their small team can accomplish if it took Ubisoft nearly a year to make Arkham Knight playable.

floattube wrote
seel wrote
floattube wrote

Guess they shouldn't have rushed it out the door.

Definitely needed to be delayed, but I'd imagine Sony was putting pressure on it getting out the door. I look forward to seeing what updates they push out in the next couple months.

I'm sure they will fix it with updates, but I just think it is ridiculous that they HAVE to do that. I don't understand why games can't just work nowadays. I mean it's one thing if it is a few bugs but when a majority of players can't even get the game to run it shouldn't be released.

Someone summed it up well on Reddit that Sony's marketing of the game literally killed it. Hype became too much, deadlines weren't able to be met but they couldn't delay any longer. Had to force it out the door besides the glaring bugs. So they begin working on their day 1 patch to rectify as many bugs as possible. The thing is a majority of players can run the game. The game had 212 thousand active users playing, and currently on steam there are 11.6 thousand negative reviews. Even if we triple that to make up for the people that didn't leave a review, we're only at 16%. Whether thats truly how many people are having issues or not I don't know, but I'd say those having issues are the vocal minority simply because they want a fix so badly. Everyone who isn't having issues is playing the game.

Backlash wrote
floattube wrote
seel wrote
floattube wrote

Guess they shouldn't have rushed it out the door.

Definitely needed to be delayed, but I'd imagine Sony was putting pressure on it getting out the door. I look forward to seeing what updates they push out in the next couple months.

I don't understand why games can't just work nowadays.

Because patches are much easier for consumers to download these days.

Think about it: Back before broadband, a patch for a game could potentially take a full day to download. Usually they were just balance tweaks; exceedingly rare was it for devs push out a patch adding new content to the game. If you were going to add a huge chunk to the game, that meant printing it on physical media and shipping it out as an expansion pack.

Now fast-forward to today. With internet speeds being what they are, devs have two options for adding content to their game: Either you push them out as free patches (as Blizz is doing with Overwatch), or divvy them up and sell them piecemeal as DLC (as EA has done with... pretty much everything in recent memory.)

NMS appears to be opting for the former. Only difference being that Overwatch could've still been successful if it was left as-is, whereas NMS has glaring technical issues that would torpedo its market appeal if the dev didn't promise to patch them.

Now comes the question on whether they'll deliver. It's not entirely uncommon for certain developers to promise patches for a title as a method of letting the fans down easy. Though I'm not saying that's the case for No Man's Sky, I can't help but wonder how much their small team can accomplish if it took Ubisoft nearly a year to make Arkham Knight playable.

Patches are easier, and like I said above they were probably forced to shove it out the door. If the day 1 patch is indicative of anything they're actively wanting to remedy any issues the game has. I think in a month or two we'll see if they'll be able to accomplish anything. I hope they do, because I'm having a right blast with the game and I'd like others that want to to be able to as well.