A lot of games have made things better with paid updates/expansions, but NMS really seems to be the only one where the free updates have fixed the game. Hell, there were jokes going around with the last big free update that people wanted to pay them more for all these free updates.
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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
This game really shows how it COULD be. Totally fail with epic bad reviews. No giving up, putting year after year of free updates and content until the initial vision was approximated and reviews went to very positive.
I dunno if I could name another game that managed that in the last 3 decades.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah lol. I was pissed for purchasing early too. Back then, 3000 years ago. But now I would really be ready to buy a dlc goddammit 😁
They fucked up royally but stood up to it in the most honorable way possible.
DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 1 month ago
Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 to A Realm Reborn.
Granted, expansions after that were sold, but still, that one update turned the game around and allowed it to turn a multi-million dollar failure into a multi-million dollar success.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
…and still kicking. Right. That one too 😊
ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Forgot about that one. The beta was so bad I refused to play at original release.
locahosr443@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Homeworld 3
Oh no wait that’s the opposite…
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Issue with that is I pre-order the game before release based on false information. Gave up playing after 6 months because it sucked. When they finally got it to what they initially promised. It became almost unplayable by the amount of grinding that had to be done to even earn enough to by a freighter. Again gave up playing. So now sits on my shelf part of my collection.
Oh almost forgot when they updated they corrupted my save file so I lost all the progress I made in that 6 months. So that pissed me off as well.
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 month ago
I mean you pre-ordered. You got what you deserve
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not gonna look up the picture but just pretend I posted the picture of makarov with the caption “remember no pre-orders”
arrowMace@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Freighters aren’t difficult to get now…
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They just straight up give you a freighter after 3 hyper jumps IIRC
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 month ago
And when you say now, it’s been that way since about a year after the game was released.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Nothing is ever perfect, but would you have preferred they did nothing, ran with the money and pissed on you? Now they just managed to disappoint you more than once. Many others seem to be happy now. For free. While the vast majority of other companies wouldn’t even bother SELLING you updates. Sure, they didn’t manage to appease 100% of customers, but they really tried to make up for it. That should count for something, shouldn’t it?
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sure does. Just not sure I can get back into this game.
ripcord@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dude it’s been a decade
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
So far i didn’t even manage to get into this game once since release, so i hear you :-) But that was mostly issued on the whole procedural-generation-thing. To me it’s just incredibly boring the moment I figured out the puzzle-pieces. But that’s subjective and wouldn’t affect my rating of this game.
KiloGex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The important thing for me is that they didn’t just shrug and move on to something else. The devs take the issues and suggestions and work towards a better game each time. What other company has completely overhauled a game like this?