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Spent a lot of time in this game… The team is excellent and they ship incredible ambitious work.

I really wish they would just focus 100% on Light No Fire.

Part of me is secretly hoping / assuming they’re releasing new features as a testing bed for the changes in Light No Fire. I’m also very hopeful for Light No Fire. *VERY* hopeful, but I have to assume all these updates are for their broader engine. I hope..

I assume as well. I’m concerned that it’s in development hell. Sean mentioned that they’ve been working on it for 7 years.

In hindsight I think the great thing about NMS was that it shipped in such a raw state and they continually improved it based on community feedback.

I have faith though —- they know a lot more from building NMS and managing the community. They absolutely know what a good game feels like.

Sean has said so explicitly in multiple videos, including the "deep dive" video for today's update.

I do not have high hopes. It's been 10 years of constant NMS updates but the game still has nothing that keeps me hooked. Everything feels insignificant to me, every interaction is like the one before and the one that comes next. They added stuff to the game, but it just feels like more of the same. Light No Fire will surely be just more of the same.

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