No Man's Sky

[SpyderTracks]

Given the release of Starfield, I wholly assumed it may be the death of No Man's Sky, or certainly they'd see a significant drop in playerbase.

But no, quite the opposite, they're seeing their strongest numbers ever these past few weeks. They have just added some pretty significant new content.

I wonder if a lot of people on slightly older systems wanted some kind of space game, and realised they wouldn't be able to run Starfield until they upgrade, so No Man's Sky was a good alternative to see them through.

I always thought this game shot above it's mark, they had a tiny dev team up to launch, I mean literally talking 5 or 6 people, what they managed to pull off (even if the launch wasn't as they'd suggested) was quite frankly incredible, and the continued development I've been hearing has just continued to be strong and considered.

I thought we should have a dedicated thread on it, doesn't look like the game is giving up just yet

 

[AccidentalDenz]

Given the release of Starfield, I wholly assumed it may be the death of No Man's Sky, or certainly they'd see a significant drop in playerbase.

But no, quite the opposite, they're seeing their strongest numbers ever these past few weeks. They have just added some pretty significant new content.

I wonder if a lot of people on slightly older systems wanted some kind of space game, and realised they wouldn't be able to run Starfield until they upgrade, so No Man's Sky was a good alternative to see them through.

I always thought this game shot above it's mark, they had a tiny dev team up to launch, I mean literally talking 5 or 6 people, what they managed to pull off (even if the launch wasn't as they'd suggested) was quite frankly incredible, and the continued development I've been hearing has just continued to be strong and considered.

I thought we should have a dedicated thread on it, doesn't look like the game is giving up just yet

They're both fun games in their different ways. No Man's Sky is more about the exploration side of space, while Starfield is very much an RPG. I've gone beyond 53 hours with Starfield, although that will slow down now as I'm aware I get burned out of games quite easily and that much time in 1 single game in 2 weeks is heavy going - will probably be doing 5 to 10 or so hours per week going forward, as I look to keep other games in the backlog moving. No Man's Sky I've got about 20 hours into as although it's enjoyable, it didn't hook me in as fully as Starfield did as a game with a much more focussed story than NMS. That's the joy of video games though - trying different genres to see what clicks!

 

[SpyderTracks]

No Man's Sky is continuing to buck trends, they've just released a MAJOR update including graphics update, that's 8 years on from initial release without additional charge!

These guys are showing the rest of the publishers how it should be done.

 

[HomerJ]

No Man's Sky is continuing to buck trends, they've just released a MAJOR update including graphics update, that's 8 years on from initial release without additional charge!

These guys are showing the rest of the publishers how it should be done.

gamers need more publishers like that, if that was someone like EA they would want to charge a sub fee

 

[SpyderTracks]

gamers need more publishers like that, if that was someone like EA they would want to charge a sub fee

They compared in the video to EA with the SIMS 3 which they said had $1000 of additional DLC and update patches, but ACTUALLY it's far far worse than that, there's actually a Steam thread on it

TLDR: $75,000 for all the DLCs and bonus content

Total cost of all DLC and store content :: The Sims™ 3 General Discussions

I ran the numbers. I went to the Sims 3 store and searched for "*" and got 3190 results. I took the average of the first 50 results and it came to 233.5 simpoints. A simpoint is worth 10 cents. So everything on the Sims 3 store costs approximately $74,486.50. As for DLC/the game itself, the...

steamcommunity.com

 

[HomerJ]

TLDR: $75,000 for all the DLCs and bonus content

every other gif homer wanted to post goes against t and c

 

[FerrariVie]

NMS is an amazing game. I gave it a try a month after launch, asked for a refund straight away and then bought it back again after 3 years. Absolutely love it.

Starfield has so many things in common with NMS, but only the quests are far better (in NMS they're awful). Everything else is much better in NMS. I've stopped playing it for a bit until I'm finished with Starfield's quests, but after that, I'm definitely going back to NMS.