that's easy for you to assume and to say, but what exactly is the 'making your own story'? if potentially it takes 10s of hours to find other players and likely will take an infinite amount of time to get to the 'center' of the universe, then what possible story or goal is there?

Everyone can appreciate the 'journey' but a journey is generally something leading SOMEWHERE. 

the concern with this game is its lack of focus. It may really be just a space adventure simulator where you pick up resources and do light exploration of fairly generic automatically generated planets.

What people really want is a space exploration game that is large but can still maintain a community and interaction with both computers and other HUMAN players.

No Man's Sky biggest issue I think possibly could be the difficulty in finding other humans to interact with. Let's be honest- probably over half of the people picking up this game are going to be most excited about the potential of big space battles. If those people find out that its insanely difficult to find other players to get involved with with battles (based on the size of the universe) then its going to be a major disappointment.

I think exploration is awesome and I like the concepts of this game but there is an issue with exploration when the majority of what you are 'exploring' has been computer generated. It means that while many planets may APPEAR different aesthetically, they will behave similarly in terms of the NPC's, nature, artifact searching.

I mean's cool that one planet might be tropical and another freezing cold, but if you're simply landing on planet to planet to name some things and shoot/collect resources then that could get tiring very quickly.

Again the human player interaction component I think is key for this sort of large scope game. They need some sort of solar systems that everyone can access to meet and interact with other players. Even maybe just based on where you are in the galaxy, like regions have their own hubs for people to go to (I don't obviously expect someone on one end of the galaxy to be able to meet up with someone on the other). Just SOMETHING

biggest concern for me, as others have mentioned, is that the sheer size of the generated game will be so large that it will be difficult to find other players to interact with.

The fun for me with a game like this would be picking races/aliens to ally with and/or meeting up with friends to get involved with space battles or whatever (like the traders / space pirates sort of stuff).

A game like this NEEDS some sort of trading hubs or planets which are easily accessible (teleport?) for the human players to meet up in. LIke maybe certain solar systems that everyone can easily find.

if It literally is the scale of like millions of star systems then no one will ever be able to find other humans to play with :/ makes a huge difference

Crafting. That planet though:

http://uk.ign.com/videos/2016/04/15/how-crafting-in-no-mans-sky-works

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One detail I don't remember hearing about before is apparently even inventory management will be a thoughtful process, as you are afforded bonuses for placing certain upgrades in close proximity to one another. Curious about how complex this is- whether any combination of stacked upgrades will do, or if certain configurations are better than others, if there will be an internal logic to it all or just randomly determined, etc- but regardless, certainly more interesting than just tossing an upgrade 'Eh, wherever.' And having resource storage and upgrades both rely on the same empty slots sounds like an excellent way to balance utility with storage capacity. Liking this more and more.