alt Hacker NewsI was so pissed off by the lies around the launch of this game and subsequently being refused a refund that I never went back to it.
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I don't always seem to be able to stick to my values, but this time it was easy to just write them off and never look back.
I think maybe because there's just so many games being released every single day that this is a sufficiently competitive market. It's not like I'm deciding to never take the city bus again.
I'm curious who refused you the refund? I seem to recall it being refunded pretty steadily by everyone who sold it digitally. Maybe I am misremembering.
Still entirely fair to have been turned off by the experience. Plenty of developers or publishers I don't purchase from anymore due to similar shenanigans.
At least it didn't drive you to smoke crack like it did to of my friends. Though ironically he still plays to this day though a lot less than he used to.
I think it's fair to say they started off bad, but redeemed themselves.
In contrast Star Citizen is far more ambitious but shows 0 sign of ever actually landing.
NMS is still a great fun space game to play, the lore / back story of each faction is quite bleak though and the lack of good individual characters does leave it feeling more like exploration sandbox than a really compelling world you care about.
They really turned it around. You should check it out.
But yeah, super crappy launch.