I’m realizing that maybe its time for me to give up on the “normal difficulty” playthrough and switch over to casual because I don’t like minecraft resource-gathering and crafting mechanics and they get in the way of the true pleasure: taking pictures of stupid looking aliens on fantastical alien worlds.
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I feel this so much. In my player autocracy I’d want separate difficulty settings for the “economy” because recently I just play on easy to avoid the tedium of items and currencies even if I’m good for the combat difficulty.
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yeah I’m not usually a play-on-easy person but the success/failure contrivances in this one are just so uninteresting compared to whatever else it’s doing
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This is one of the few games for me where multiplayer is less of a mode, more of a threat.
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Will we finally get the Allgame? Just waiting for the snowboarding update
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hyped to condemn some local transgressors to exile or worse
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it just keeps happening
i have no idea what this game is now, and i have no idea what the story was or is because every time i take a break they do some major update and i’m like “well i guess i should start over” or something
anyway weird stuff, glad people are enjoying this game still though
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I had to check whether I actually owned the game by searching my email inbox because I had no idea what platform it’d be on and it turns out I bought it and refunded it on steam 3 separate times
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Question: Why is this game still receiving such massive updates? I just don’t understand the business model, since there’s no subscription fee. Are these updates still drumming up new purchases?
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i always wonder how the used prices for this game have fluctuated. it was really cheap really soon after release, did it increase after the first big updates?
Hard to get details but my impression is that the original release gave them tons of runway and the updates have thus far topped it off
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2025’s No Man’s Sky Classic is going to make them a fortune.
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Yeah, every update that keeps the game around adds to sales by increasing visibility by bumping news stories, causing people to share, talk, and stream about it, kicking the store algorithms to give it more prominent placement, and getting people to rope friends in. It’s kind of the inverse of putting it on sale, you’re spending money investing in continued development to get it attention rather than discounting that money off the sale price.
For almost any game (or anything) anywhere it’s almost impossible to reach enough visibility. Even something like the Souls games – Demon’s was legitimately niche but Dark Souls was a real hit but by carefully building on their cultural currency the fifth sequel is something like 3 times bigger than any of the other (very popular) games.
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I’ve played most releases of, uh, Neumann’s Guy and I honestly think the original patches were among the best. It was weird and vacant and broken and a lot of the systems didn’t work. Now it’s like… I dunno. It kinda just has all the features of every survival game ever. Which is to say, it’s fine, but it’s just asking so much time investment for a game that started as a (weird and broken) genre leader and immediately collapsed into being a genre follower.
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I really didn’t play this much past a lot of long sessions near release. I’m terrified of approaching it now. I probably won’t even recognize it.
My girlfriend at the time would watch me play sometimes and say “This is boring, there’s nothing to do. You’re boring.”
For some reason it really clicked with me specifically because of this. I guess I understand all the rage at release as it was kind of marketed to be something else? It was exactly what I hoped it would be when it came out.
Vacant and broken is a good user title.
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I feel a lot the same. I spent a good couple weeks just floating around the empty universe and it felt like what I wanted. I tried to go back once and I couldn’t deal with it. Too many interactions with NPCs and building things and…I think I just liked the big empty universe.
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the feeling of having a personal vision of an empty universe that still holds meaning and then, because you have picked up tech last abandoned in Spore, find yourself catapulted to a point where you are actively making more people angry than would have ever even heard of you otherwise unless you bury your vision
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