To be fair to Hello Games I’m pretty sure that Sony breathing down their necks for the release of No Man’s Sky really screwed them over during initial development. They had to rush big time and it was a huge increase in scope from their previous titles. Definitely not trying to undermine them though, NMS is a pretty great game now, especially compared to how rocky the start was.
As for R6 I remember hearing pretty recently there was a huge hacking incident that lead to players getting free shit en masse and effectively flipped the game economy on its head. I don’t know how they handled the fallout from that but considering it’s Ubisoft I doubt they learned anything substantial. Though if there’s one inadvertently good thing they did it was kicking off the Stop Killing Games movement by shutting down servers for The Crew.
Mistic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
With NMS, there was also a case of massive overpromising. It’s a fuckup of Sean Murray, which he did learn a lot from, so kudos to him.
Afaik, what happened is they had certain systems being developed that were planned to be in the game but ultimately got cut. He, on the other hand, was talking to the media as if they were coming. That all was technically not a lie, because at the time they were coming. But if you cut them before release, it sure as hell will result in a massive disappointment. And it sure doesn’t help that they lied about multi-player being in the game after the release.
Many of the systems did eventually come with updates. Nowadays, it’s pretty much the game they promised.
It has its issues, but I don’t regret playing it. It was fun, and I still hop on sometimes to check out new expeditions.