Remember that HG made £40 million in 2022 from good people like you, of course, they are going to keep at it.
Comment on Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc?
WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Because most other game developers would have crapped out the initial project and moved on.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
“like you”
He didn’t say he bought it. He was explaining the very obvious answer to your very obvious question. Why get all weirdly accusatory and righteous?
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Why so sensitive? What’s the accusation? All I pointed out was that HG made a lot of money from people over the years; it makes a lot of sense that they did not abandon the project.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You (possibly falsely) accused a commenter of supporting HG while saying it’s a stupid thing you do. You were a dick. I pointed it out.
And that’s the whole story my friend.
WoolyNelson@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Your comment makes no sense.
Yes, they made money from sales of the game. This does not explain why they continue to publish free updates for the last 10 years.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Remember that at that point the game was allready 8 years old had had several large updates. Not counting few spikes from the updates first four years the game had under 2000 player/month in steam. Financially looking the pragmatic choice would have been to stop the development, but they did not.
There has been several games from big publishers that were abandoned shortly after release, even if it still was possible to fix the game. Battleborn, Anthem, Concord. And even more games that are still in theory playable, but are just full if bugs or not fun to play.
But so far i can think only three games that had bad start, but devs kept working on it and eventually managed to make fun games. No mans sky, Fallout 76 and Cyperpunk 2077
Ava@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
FFXIV probably deserves a spot on the list, the initial launch was so bad they just remade the game.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yes, I have already said this is commendable…in the gaming industry, but not in other industries in terms of project delivery, hence the building analogy in my post.
MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Why would you force other industry term on the gaming industry? Thats just silly. It like saying apple is a bad fruit because it is a lousy boat.
Gaming is pretty unique platform in a way where the product is measured by unquantifiable metric called fun, but you want to compare it in terms of other products.
Im the end they kept working on a bad product where others would have stopped and ended making it good.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Indeed. And even delayed fulfillment of the original promises is impressive given how vast the scope of the original pitch was. I’m just happy to have it, even if it took a couple years longer than expected to get.
Take a look at Star Citizen if you want to know the alternative, OP
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Bringing Star Citizen up is a race to the bottom.
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I think they are saying “look at star citizen as the alternative” meaning never finished, but by comparison No Man’s Sky is complete?
Maybe i’m reading it wrong though.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Star citizen is about to cross into a billion dollars in development “costs”. It might genuinely be one of the biggest scams in history.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Anthem in some ways is a better example because Start Citizen is never going to release, they can cruise on their promises until the company goes bankrupt. Anthem however was released in an unfinished state hardly reaching the hype it generated and then EA just cut their losses and left it like that.