No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content

Re:No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content by xamuel on Monday October 17, 2016 @09:30PM (#12731315)

>you could run into other players ... it would be exceedingly rare

This should've tripped everyone's BS detectors. Why would a studio do the huge work to add a multiplayer mode if it would be so rarely seen?

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Re:No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content by yankyou on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:20PM (#12731537)

It _did_ trip a lot of BS detectors.

The sound was drowned out by the overwhelmingly non-technical consumers of the game's PR. It's the modern day version of selling snake oil.

Technology progresses, but human nature doesn't.

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Re:No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content by EpicEng on Monday October 17, 2016 @11:50PM (#12731911)

And much of the expectant player base didn't want to hear anything negative. Reddit was a complete echo chamber, praising the devs in every post. I suppose it's still an echo chamber, but the conversation has... drifted the other way.

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