Cdkeys has for a fair bit cheaper - consider getting it from there

yea, if GOG doesn't say anything about it b4 steam launches it I'm jumping ship

Word from Reddit is that they're about to announce something

"about to" ? i hope its sooner than hours from now lol

GOG always announces a big update with a news post. It might not be at the exact time it launches on Steam though. They responded on Twitter that they will have news about the update.

Past NMS updates launched on Galaxy not too long after Steam.

Or destroy it totally? It entirely depends on how it is implemented and how it evolves to shape the rest of the game. MP pretty much 'killed' Elite Dangerous for many Elite fans that backed it for the single player game (that was pulled just before release), and still harms it's design and development to this very day.

Granted it will certainly have the ability to save Hello Games and Sean's reputation (and bank balances).

Oh really? Will check it out, thanks! Have you ever purchased keys from there before? Is it trustworthy?

Apparently, since their entire studio "owes it's existence to Sony", according to a certain CEO.

I wonder if this will finally enable them to end their contract, eventually, with Sony. That they're going to work up some bank, and be able to launch a game without the focus group fuckery patching business from Sony.

The contract will not be ended as long as the product is available for Sony's platform. Simple matter of fact that Sony does not have any products on PS4 and such without having a contract with the product's developer.

That said, the _terms_ of the contract may and will change with time. We have no idea what are time conditions and restraints in their contract. For example, i can't exclude the possibility that their contract includes HG's promise not to provide NMS to any other console other than PS4 for two years after the initial launch date of NMS (which by the time the contract was signed was most likely planned to be June 2016; later delayed to August for actual launch) - and if so, no wonder Xbox gets NMS _now_, 2+ years after the initially planned release date.

Other conditions of the contract may be of similar nature - i.e. there may or may not be "temporary" conditions and restrictons of any sort.

Nope more like Elites lack of content and slow updates is what killed it, the majority of players who still play it play it in open world not its single player mode.

If it weren't for the mp side of the game and it being diriven by players actions and events etc i'd be just another off line space game than most people eventually bounce off after a few weeks.

I hate Steam, its the entire reason I do business with GoG... Games are so much easier to buy on steam and there is a bigger selection, etc... if this isnt something thats fixed then I'm gonna try to get my money back from GoG for NMS and just convert over to Steam...

if I make the compromise to use Steam, then thats what I'll do for all my games, theres no point in having some games in steam and some in GoG... Its a shame because this isnt a problem caused by GoG, its from the tragically ignorant devs, but its a problem GoG will end up paying for...

The MP side of the game is driving a lot of players crazy. Recent top post over at the Steam forum: To turn off multiplayer and play solo do the following.

Not to mention i did specifically say:

"MP pretty much 'killed' Elite Dangerous for many Elite fans that backed it for the single player game (that was pulled just before release), and still harms it's design and development to this very day."

The glacial pace of updates for ED are very much wrapped up in the difficulty of balancing for mp concerns (from new ships and their abilities/stats vs others) to the general 'weakness' around peer-peer networking that ED uses and concerns like instances and rubber banding etc.

I do accept a lot of people were looking forward to mp Elite (it was a longtime wish from David Brabben as well), but it is clear it only partially lives up to expectations and from a design perspective has held the game back. If it had been single player (or had a real off line single player experience) we would have seen a huge influx of mods to improve the game all over.

It's why as an original kickstarter backer (like 5 years ago now?!) I have not started playing properly yet (dipped my toes in and did not find it what i was looking for...yet). I much prefer to play FFED3D (plus mods) for my Elite fix as that just does 'more' better imho. ED is still in development though, so i'm hopeful i'll get to play it at a near feature comparative state to FFED3D at some point.

But yeah unless your game is specifically designed ALL about the mp (and that just kills a game for many people not into the PvP), pseudo-mp has it's draw backs, as both ED and now NMS are finding out.

So I just did a part of the community goal and saw some interesting stuff.

There were a monument over two people meeting, I saw one random basecomputer and several message modules all over the planet at spots with valuble stuff.

Can we see other players now or is it just some kind of trickery Hello Games are playing on us through the community goal?


Don't seem to be any option for multiplayer in settings by the way.

Nope.

Read the release announcement from August 11, 2017 for the Atlas Rises update. GOG users have been waiting since that time to have complete versions of No Man's Sky. The item of note states "•Joint exploration has been introduced allowing 16 players to see visual representations of each other in game. Joint exploration does not require PS Plus, and is not currently available on GOG Galaxy." The release announcement is at https://www.nomanssky.com/atlas-rises-update/

The same happened with Next but the release to GOG was left to last of the four platforms to avoid the bad press and feedback and there were vague promises that this capability might exist by the end of the year but I somehow cannot find that posting anymore so not sure if we have been moved from the doorstep to being left in the forest.

I am not really interested in playing with imaginary friends but it was Hello Games that both selected and promoted GOG as one of the three distributors of the game only to leave GOG users abandoned on the doorstep.