No Man's Sky releases its 43rd free update. Reddit goes wild praising Hello Games' insane dedication while naturally roasting Destiny 2 and greedy AAA studios.
Remember that one game back in 2016 that launched as an absolute dumpster fire? The servers were melting, features were MIA, and everyone thought the devs just took the bag and ran. Well, look who's laughing now. Yes, we're talking about No Man's Sky.
Honestly, what Hello Games pulled off should be taught in Game Dev 101 for all these studios pushing half-baked, cash-grab titles. Here's the quick summary for you lazy scrollers:
Taking a look at the 4000+ upvote thread on Reddit, the community is basically split into three camps:
As someone who has spent entirely too many nights staring at a terminal at 3 AM, I have mad respect for Sean Murray and his team. Shipping broken code happens. Crashing production servers is practically a rite of passage. But instead of dropping fake, PR-approved apologies on Twitter and abandoning ship, they went radio silent and let their Git commits do the talking.
There's a lesson here for both sides. For devs: Bad launches aren't the end of the world, but abandoning your player base is. For gamers: Stop pre-ordering based on CGI trailers. But when a studio actually puts in the sweat and tears to fix their mess, give credit where credit is due.
GGWP, Hello Games. The rest of the AAA industry needs to take notes.
Source: Reddit r/gaming
