No Man's Sky

[adrix89]

haha! You silly guys, Geoff was one of the promoters of this game payed by Sony or has actually stake in it, and now he goes with the trend, lets trash No Shit Sky cause thats what the people doing. Look at me i am a journalist!!

Meh he even praises it with faint damning.

 

[TheChickenKing]

I like a lot of this guy's critique even if I don't always agree with it (though he seems fairly spot on for NMS) and thought The Game Analists might be interested.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

This thread has made me laugh so fucking hard.
Thank you all.

 

[ortucis]

People are still discussing this game? It's dead, developers are millionaires. Go back to posting memes about immigrants from your basements.

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

This is pretty great

 

[markec]

 

[Zep Zepo]

"You'll be playing this game for DECADES! YEARS! MONTHS AND MONTHS! DAYS! Because muh procedural generations!"
-SM

Zep--

 

[Infinitron]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-10-05-no-mans-sky-subreddit-shut-down

No Man's Sky subreddit shut down, community erupts
Mod says: "It's become a hate-filled wastehole of no actual discussion."

The No Man's Sky subreddit has been shut down, with the mod responsible expressing his distaste at what it has become.

Visit the No Man's Sky subreddit now and you get a note telling you it's been set to private.

/r/NoMansSkyTheGame, which had over 150,000 subscribers, was closed with an announcement post from moderator "r0ugew0lf":

• So I purged the subreddit. It's become a hate filled wastehole of no actual discussion. It's not what we intended it to be and I don't like providing a platform for hate. I'm sorry to everyone who used the subreddit as intended but you are now in the majority. I'm sure you can find a different place to discuss this game. It's not hard.
• This was my decision and mine alone. The other moderators tried to sway my opinion but cynicism got the best of me as usual.

We've kept an eye on the No Man's Sky subreddit in a bit to stay up to date with Hello Games' controversial space game.

Using WayBackMachine, which archives the internet, we can see a number of posts from disgruntled No Man's Sky players who are upset at the lack of updates from Hello Games and its development chief Sean Murray.

However, these kinds of complaints are familiar. In fact, they've defined discussion about No Man's Sky ever since it came out in August.

Users of the subreddit are understandably upset that it's been shut down, with many questioning r0ugew0lf's decision. There's also surprise at how easy it is for one person to close a large subreddit.

The No Man's Sky subreddit was popular enough for its closure to draw the interest of Reddit's community team. A post by a Reddit admin suggests a bid to reinstate the subreddit.

Following up on his announcement post, r0ugew0lf commented to complain about the lack of moderator support, which may help explain his exasperation.

• Is it possible to get more moderator support? We've been out here basically on our own dealing with a toxic community with little support from the admin's side. Moderator tools were always put on standstill after advertisements and AMAs. We've been waiting for a legitimate modmail overhall [sic] for longer than I've been a moderator, and we're only just now getting a beta that is very exclusive.
• Moderators seem to be a second thought behind making money here on this platform. I feel as if there could be much better support for your first line of defense against and general hate. Lately it feels as if Reddit is more about the publicity and adverting [sic].

Recent mod comments on chat program Discord were made public and archived on Imgur.The Discord posts reveal r0ugew0lf notifying the other mods of his decision to shut down the NMS subreddit. The mods seem nonplussed, with just a couple of dissenting comments.

Some have accused r0ugew0lf of trolling the No Man's Sky community, and remain unconvinced by the explanation for his actions.

This isn't the first time the No Man's Sky subreddit has hit the headlines. After Kotakureported a delay to the game, the subreddit exploded with anger, and death threats were issued.

After No Man's Sky came out and disappointed some, Hello Games has worked to improve technical aspects of the game with patches, but the Guildford developer has been criticised for a lack of communication.

Just hours after the No Man's Sky subreddit was closed, an alternative, simply titled r/no_mans_sky, was set up. It already has nearly 7000 subscribers, and is packed with comments about the end of the main thread. Some are calling it a fresh start for online discussion of the game.

Meanwhile, /r/NoMansSkyTheGame remains offline.

DarkUnderlord Have you ever felt the same way about the Codex

 

[Makabb]

It has been reopened

 

[Infinitron]

UPDATE: The main No Man's Sky subreddit has reopened.

Mod Sporkicide said r0ugew0lf, who has shut the 150,000 subscriber-strong /r/NoMansSkyTheGame after claiming it had become "a hate filled wastehole of no actual discussion", would "take a break" and had passed control over.

Here's the latest announcement:

• I know the past few hours have been confusing. I've been reviewing the situation and working with /u/r0ugew0lf to determine the needs of this community and how the admins can help meet them. He's been an enormous help and I appreciate him working with us during a difficult time. He's going to take a break and has handed the reins over to me to get the subreddit restarted. I've extended invitations to some of the previous moderators to get things started and will likely be needing some additional help.
• At the core of things, this is a subreddit and a community centered around No Man's Sky. I'm asking everyone here to participate in good faith and leave any frustration with the recent situation at the door.

/r/NoMansSkyTheGame lives again, then. But it seems its community is still upset over r0ugew0lf's actions.

• EDIT: I was hoping I wouldn't have to add this, but yes, I'm going to remove comments that do nothing but criticise the former mods. You'll notice I am currently the only moderator, so complaints about the old ones aren't constructive or applicable.

Looking to the future, Sporkicide said /r/NoMansSkyTheGame would do more in terms of moderation support, which r0ugew0lf had singled out before setting the subreddit private.

• If a community this big is in trouble, we're supposed to be here to help. Our team is expanding and we're getting a little more capability to assist mods in running a successful community. I wish we would have gotten to this one a little bit sooner, but we're doing the best we can for it being 4AM my time.

 

[Burning Bridges]

Meanwhile Steam ratings have passed into "Overwhelmingly negative". This is flop of the century territory.

 

[pippin]

At least people forgot about Dragonspear.
You could be fucked but at least you're not Hello Games.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Even bigger debacle than Legends of Valour.

I knew that brits would deliver.

 

[rezaf]

I still can't help but be amused by the amount of reviews citing how they realized the game was dull after playing for a hundred hours, sometimes considerably more.
If I played a game for that amount of time, every hour of entertainment has cost me half a buck ... are these really proper grounds to post a negative review?
It's a funny thing what it can do to your opinion about something when you hoped/dreamed of it being so much more...

 

[Zarniwoop]

I'd say it's more of an indication of how retarded the reviewer is. What kind of dumbfuck takes 100 hours to realize a game is not fun?

 

[ortucis]

I'd say it's more of an indication of how retarded the reviewer is. What kind of dumbfuck takes 100 hours to realize a game is not fun?

If a game is open world, it means you have to explore and waste time using current mechanics to progress and see more of it. Most people played it for the hype and didn't realize that majority of features Sean talked about never existed. They kept playing in hope of seeing more if it.

Same goes for other games like RPG's where people spend 100 hrs in hope of finding something fun.

 

[Drax]

I was bored about 10 minutes in.

 

[Makabb]

So this is what Sean Murray is doing currently

 

[Makabb]

NMS 2 announced

 

[Beowulf]

I admire your dedication to this thread.

 

[markec]

I admire your dedication to this thread.

For him every day is a fight to live up to his tags.

 

[Burning Bridges]

So this is what Sean Murray is doing currently

I rather thought he locked up in his room, determined to not come out before he develops the true world formula, and went completely insane in the Lovecraftian way.

At least I know no other way how a human could deal with his amount of fucking up.

 

[Zarniwoop]

OMFG Wiki-coping at its finest:

Significant attention and expectations were given to the title in the months leading to its release, leading Murray and others journalists to recommend caution due the indie nature and niche appeal of the title, seeking to avoid the pitfalls that had previously occurred at the launch of Spore in 2008

That's right faggots, Sean warned you all but it's because of your toxic masculinity Too High Expectations(TM) that he game is utter shit.

The entire article is like that now, totally idiot gamers expecting too much and Brave Sir Murray warning everyone about it

 

[Burning Bridges]

By the way the game still costs 60$ on Steam, I am getting the feeling that this is Steam's cruel strategy of killing it off entirely. If they sold it for 4.99 which it would deserve according to its reception a lot of us would get it just to see how shit it is, but for this price only a complete retard would get an assured worst game of the decade.

Somebody with the name of Rymdkatten actually suggested that on Steam

I think they should increase the price to $100-200 so that the mainstream wouldn't buy it

And "space cat" got it right. If Steam were to react appropiately to a disaster of this magnitude then they would actually double and triple the price.

 

[VladimirK]

OMFG Wiki-coping at its finest:

Significant attention and expectations were given to the title in the months leading to its release, leading Murray and others journalists to recommend caution due the indie nature and niche appeal of the title, seeking to avoid the pitfalls that had previously occurred at the launch of Spore in 2008

That's right faggots, Sean warned you all but it's because of your toxic masculinity Too High Expectations(TM) that he game is utter shit.

The entire article is like that now, totally idiot gamers expecting too much and Brave Sir Murray warning everyone about it

Yeah:

Questions regarding the multiplayer aspects of No Man's Sky' were raised a day following the official release on the PlayStation 4. Two players attempted to meet up at the same location in the game's virtual universe after one player recognized the other by their username associated with a planetary discovery. Despite confirming they had been at the same spot on the same planet outside of the game through their respective Twitch.tv streams, they could not see each other.[156]Furthering this was the discovery that European copies of the limited edition packaging used a sticker to cover the PEGI online play icon.[161] Journalists noted a number of potential reasons why the players may not have encountered each other, including the users being on separate instances or server problems reported by Hello Games at launch, though some opined that this may have been a feature removed before launch.[156] Hello Games noted that they have had "far more" players than they expected at launch and are bringing on more people to help support the game along with patching the critical issues at the game's launch, but they have not made a direct statement on the multiplayer situation as of September 2016.[156][162][163][164][70]

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