I like to remind people that if they didn’t botch the launch and scam everyone, all these free content patches would have been DLC. They are literally buying reputation back with these patches by not charging for them. Yet everyone thinks this is simply goodwill or some personal rehabilitation campaign. It is not. It’s about money and the ability to scam again in the future. Mark my words.
10 years is a long time to hold a grudge
Is there an argument you’d like to make against my conclusion? Or is applying an arbitrary expiration date to other’s interests your way of getting your point across?
Either way, I’m a fan of NMS. But I’m also familiar enough with Marxism to know better than to anthropomorphize a corporation by lending it forgiveness when that corporation would have been penalized or dissolved for its scam by any governmental regulatory body worth its salt.
The only rational play is to forever hold Hello Games accountable for its scam. Free content patches isnt rehabilitation. Firing Sean Murray, or facing criminal justice would be one avenue.
I love it how trust was destroyed so profoundly, we effectively slam the door shut on these people to rehabilitate, should they ever want to.
Not that it matters in the medium-term.
My comment was referring to Sean Murray (“personal rehabilitation”).
But to address your point, do you believe Hello Games is rehabilitated? I don’t think they were ever the problem. It was marketing and leadership, not the entire group of devs.
maybe they would have charged, but you can’t say that for certain. there are many games that had a good launch with free content post launch. however…
the game came out almost 10 years ago. it’s time for people to let it go.
the price of admission far outweighs the value of the current game.
Being informed of nms major update by a meme on lemmy is goat
NMS was the only game I preordered. At launch it was meh, but I liked the chill, scaled down gameplay. Now every update morphs it into something new. It’s tiring for me as a player, how do they keep at it?
I guess it’s time for my yearly check of the game. Got it eternities ago on sale, iirc before any expansion updates and it was… meh?
I’ve gone through some plot arc about
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some fellow trapped in vr/simulation/whatever
it was… all right. Didn’t care a bit about all the basebuilding or ship upgrading tho, it was fairly enjoyable as a walking sim :D
I guess there’s quite a bit more in the game now, like (trading?) fleets?
If I were to coop this with a friend, I’ve understood there’s some in-game friend-service with join codes, but does joining another player require some traveling to find them or anything or do I just spawn to them when starting a coop session?
For joining friends it’s instant you usually spawn in the system as the host. For jumps you could taxi your friends with you in a capital ship, or you could warp to them by exiting the space anomaly. Exploring an uncharted system? warp to them via anomaly. They wanna show you their base across the galaxy? Warp to them via anomaly. They’re in a different galaxy? Believe it or not, anomaly
Yeah in multiplayer you still have access to all the warp points such as your bases, previously visited stations. SOMETIMES my friends (it’s been a long time since I’ve done multiplayer) could see my bases otherwise we just anomaly warp
in my case, we’d be starting from zero. No real prior saves or anything.
But, thanks, I guess we’ll be on the look out for anomalies once we inevitably lose sight of eachother :D
Oh the anomaly is something you summon, it’s basically a space station that you can summon the entry point to. I think the requirement is just to make a few ftl jumps to other stars which is very very early in the game
