The moment you realize people will pay you $60 to play an indie game which seems to be on alpha stage haha.

Shhhh.. people LOVE to hate on No Man Sky!!!

Well that destroys a huge and very interesting game feature...

Well like I said, even if it were true it'd still be the least of their problems. And yes I do love it that most people are able to see through the bullshit, I love that the attempt to deceive us has been met with the proper reaction.

thats fantastic, but what do you like about it? you didnt really answer my question. you knew nothing about it so you had zero expectations so is that your argument? you basically just said "I like the game because it is better than nothing." but what part of the game, what actual feature, makes it fun to play?

You should change the OP and thread title, it's been confirmed as wrong.

More problems are growing....

The funny thing is all this ruckus actually makes me interested in this game. It has a neat premise.

I remember being a kid thinking I'd love to make video games for a living and how much fun it'd be. Thank god dreams get destroyed in life. Whew, dodged that bullet.

For some it is worth it to get through the initial grind. Getting resources is very fast with upgrades and later on you can last for hours and need much less of anything. Only rare planets with very hostile wildlife can still make you run.

It's hard to find a balance. Some say the survival aspect is too easy, it should be harder to survive. The resources should be more rare and not available on the same planet. Battles should be hard, space battles given meaning as the only resource for certain things perhaps.
And others just want to explore, yet find something unique on every planet. Mostly empty planets with settlements a rare thing to encounter.

I think pure exploration, the journey not the discovery, is not for everyone. In Elite Dangerous it's only a fraction of players that bothers with exploring the galaxy. NMS made exploration very easy yet is missing some basic features. Being able to find systems on the map would be a great start, as well as being able to zoom out to see your path.

There were a lot of expectations for NMS, a lot of them for completely different games. That's mostly the developers fault as they put some of everything in the game, cut most of it back out while never reigning in expectations.

Without having followed the hype, what the game clearly shows as cut back:
- Crafting was supposed to be a lot more detailed, rare resources aren't used for anything, recipe for warp cell seems to have been simplified, plenty upgrades don't have follow ups.
- A lot of items that drop aren't used for anything.
- Portals on worlds that don't do anything
- Beacons and observatories that claim to locate something on distant worlds, only to point to something standard locally
- Fighting or rescuing traders is pointless
- Trading is pointless
- The atlas interface 'quest' seems unfinished, no point to the end of it.

The game should have been in development for another year. It's simply not finished.