IMO the game as hyped in the "official statements" (vs.the "user-made-up hype") is so far off from the released product that it isn't worth $60 by a long shot.

All of the many things that were said to be in the game, that are not, are what "made it worth" $60.

As released, to me it is MAYBE a $25 game.; and one that I MIGHT buy on sale for perhaps $15.

Anyone remember the (now gone) Reddit thread, that charted out all the "promises" made by Sean Murray that were not in the game?

Anyways, that thread is "gone" but is archived <i>here</i>. It's worth a read for one that thinks the difference between what was released and what was "hyped" was only due to "user-generated hype".

Another source documenting the difference between what was released and what Seam Murray himself said would be in the game is <i>here</i>.

It's also amusing (to me, anyways) how Sean Murray <i>tweeted</i> (just back this August 08, 2016), "The chances of two players ever crossing paths in a universe this large is pretty much zero."; then not only did two live streamers manage to meet up on day of release (against all odds lol), but within days there were tons more players managing to do that.

I personally wonder if the supposed 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets for players to go out and explore is actually a much smaller number.

This game really reinforced for me to not pre-order (or "kickstart") things. Just wait for the release and see what's what.

I'll definitely agree that some people hyped it up and were bound to be disappointed. However there are a couple of times it's clear Hello Games flat out lied, for example, claiming that they had to reprogram a type of atom in the universe to create the possibility of green skies.

There's a difference between all of those an No Man's Sky. Watch Dogs does reflect the final demonstrations and trailers.

No Man's Sky still has the old E3 trailer up on the Steam Page. Bullshots happen all the time, but they're typically corrected by the release. There's also typically the disclaimer of "not final game footage". No Man's Sky has no such disclaimer.

I like that he hasn't tweeted anything since the 18 of August.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0

LOL@comparsion

*proceeds to play the free biker DLC (about the 6th now?) having the content of whole NMS*

I for one am glad to not have bought NMS on release and wait until it'll sell with a realistic price, which is about $20

I didn't know about that but there are other examples that I've heard of. That's something you can't really look past if the game is not very exciting. Still, IMHO the main source of the misinformation wasn't the studio.

The numbers of planets should be correct, but it seems that the random number generator is broken and people will start near each other.

(Generating a planet on base of a random seed is relatively easy.)