Comment on Why are people still romanticizing No Man’s Sky’s “redemption” arc?
Yarny@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
“and Hello Games never actually apologized for lying.” Good. I don’t want a corporate apology. Apologies from companies literally mean nothing. What matters is your actions. They have updated the game, for free, and still have no microtransactions. No third party launcher or account needed. Can be played offline. You buy the game, you get the game. That is RARE these days.
Should they have released the game in the first place? No. If you don’t support that, then don’t buy it. I don’t really like that, so I bought it on sale for like $30 instead of its full price of $60, which in my opinion was worth it.
There are plenty of problems in the gaming industry right now, I think NMS’s “redemption” arc is the least of your worries.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 6 days ago
“They have updated the game, for free, and still have no microtransactions”
These are the good practices in a sea of bad actors, but that’s how the fans use Hello Games to attack the AAA industry. Not to mention, NMS fans have a habit of constantly misplacing and comparing it with AAA games. Once you recalibrate your perspective, you will see that long-term developments and updates are normal in indies, maybe that’s where it belongs?
arnitbier@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
What the shit? Hello Games fans "attacking the triple a game studios? For what having both vast resources and terrible business practices?
Your attacking Hello Games and in this post and defending what AAA devs?
This really sounds and reads like LLMspeak (AI Slop)
Yarny@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
What makes you so upset over people “attacking” the AAA industry? Most of the big AAA players release literal garbage, games filled with anti-consumer practices. Not only do they tend to release “unfinished” like No Mans Sky did, but they also have DRM, microtransactions, third party launchers + accounts that take your data. Who cares if they get attacked? I honestly wish people would do more.
I don’t really understand what it is you have a problem with.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s a satire :)
I get that you are upset with AAA games. Honestly, I’ve managed to avoid them for a long time. But I think Hello games is not an ideal studio either; Murray did lie about the feature at release, the updates have only met minimum of professional standards, and 10 years later it is still a bland tofu of a space game, wrapped in years of technical debt, while NMS being a test bench for LNF as a fanbase look to the other way…they are doing ok…
I just find it funny that in a sea of garbage (not as a puddle), people will grab anything shiny and call it a diamond, while ignoring the gem cave by the shore and then ask, “What is wrong? Why are you laughing?”
The good devs never needed a redemption arc; never needed a cultural reframe to be good.