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If you haven't been paying much attention to the drama, No Man's Sky had been struggling to contain fears that it wouldn't live up to the hype. Then last week someone managed to score an erroneously sold copy for $2000 [1] and livestreamed his completion of the game. His impressions seemed to throw cold water on NMS's promises, but this patch makes so many additions that it sounds like a totally different game. Pretty amazing for a first-day patch.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4v8pnp/guy_who_got_n...

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It should be pointed out the massive hype and over excitement is being generated primarily by fans who are theorizing everything. And they have been since day 1. Some have gone as far as to call this their "end game". It's getting as bad as tv fan theories.

It does sound kind of weird that the three paths (whatever that means) were added after the game went gold.

I've read lots of comments from people bewildered that Hello Games is continuing to add features and work on bugs after the game has gone gold. Gold is the 1.0 release: they got the game to a state where there were no showstoppers, and now they're continuing to add value to the game, as well as address issues that only become obvious when large numbers of naive users (and their myriad hardware specifications) encounter a product.

Lol, Have a look at what Monkey Squad is doing with Kerbal Space Program. They added many game-altering and save-breaking "features", even migrated to a new version of unity, post-1.0 release. The days of distinctions between alpha, beta and release are gone. Developers are free to release most anything they want under whatever banner they choose.

An even better example would probably be Minecraft, which was released in 2011 and is still getting new features, biomes and blocks 5 years after hitting 1.0

This is what makes it a great age of gaming. All those one and done games are gathering electronic dust on my Steam shelf, yet Minecraft, Factorio, Starbound, Warframe, Space Engineers, 7 Days to Die, etc (all of those perma-early access games, pretty much) are racking up hundreds of hours over the year I mean, Factorio with bob's mods can keep you going for a month

Didn't Starbound just leave Early Access?

http://ramiismail.com/2016/08/patch-the-process/

Not weird at all, "big day 1 patch" is very common for anything being distributed on consoles.

Is it common for the day 1 patch to rewrite the story?

Depends on the game, I guess. When it's an indie studio crunching to meet a publishing deadline, it's probably happened before.

> live up to the hype.

I am putting this game under incredible scrutiny because of that, and the incomprehensible lack of VR support. The more hype a game has the longer I wait after launch to purchase it. I'm really worried about open world syndrome with this one.

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