CheapKoala: Sorry what have they done that's redeemable? Why would Sean Murray buy a small island when he can spend it on making his dream? Has Hello games refunded anyone including GOG. Have they ever even apologised. So despite the game looking more like what was originally promised now years later they still do not deserve support.
And Sean Murray not being Jeffrey Epstein deplorable doesn't make Sean a saint.
Wow... why are you so salty? Sure, they were unable to deliver everything they promised within the deadline they had promised.... but they did deliver it. Unlike many AAA studios, they did not decide to just go "well, we have the money now, and people dont seem to like the game so we will just move on to something else". They stuck with it, fixed the problems, added the promised features and then added even more features... like a lot more features.
Actually delivering what was promised... eventually, seems worth a lot more than some apology. Why would people want to spend their life being this salty?
So I think the counter question is what they have done that seems unredeemable to you? They could have handled a lot of their updates better I guess, where they fail to test it properly before releasing them, having everyone have to deal with sometimes game breaking bugs for a month or so, but the game as it is today is simply an amazing feat. Its practically an MMO and with so much amazing content. The base building system, all the crafts and spaceships, procedural planets and species... yet people still complain?
No one seems ot have claimed Sean Murray is some kind of saint, but I do not see why people still fault him for mistakes made years in the past that I think he has made up for more than a few times by now.
DebugKirby: Anyone confirm steam and GOG can play together yet?
huan: 1. Nexus is exceptionally busy. 4 other players as soon as I loaded the game. I don't think I EVER saw 4 players at the same time
2. see screenshot. That doesn't mean they are Steam user, just non-gog
Also, the only reason you are not seeing 20+ people is because they make instances of the Nexus to avoid networking and performance issues. Same thing happens with weekend missions.