Well, yes maybe. It would be incredible if NMS eventually had that level of mod support and commitment. Those of us that actually do enjoy the game can only dream of such an outcome (but we are optimists in general it seems!).

You seem to know a lot about this so what did they lie about exactly? It cant be from the one in a billion chance to meet up with some one on the same planet that may not work after all. If that's really it then that's just mean spirited, trivial, nitpicking.

As far as that steaming pile of crap called steam hopefully more people are quitting it and using a place like this to get their game. Here at GoG you buy a game that you actually own, that you can play anytime and anywhere you like.

I don't give valve/steam a company that forces people to install crap they don't want and sign up for an account to access their games that much relevancy. All the countless people that where forced to make steam accounts against their will to play a game they purchased it works out great for valve/steam when they get to advertise all these accounts they have. Thats coercion in my book, doing something you don't want to do with the threat of not playing the game you purchased if you don't.

Im going off on steam here i guess I dislike steam as much as this guy dislikes No mans sky. So i went off topic a bit, still can you tell me what this horrific lie from hello games is in your own words? I did finally come across a list of stuff some blogger wrote and a third of the stuff is in the game the rest was never mentioned that I am aware of. These articles rarely cit any article or interview of when these things got mentioned before the game went live.

This stuff i never saw until now and I kept pretty up to date on this game. Makes me wonder who are the ones lying here, hello games or the angry delusional gamers like you.

Guess you're not past denial yet . Part of the 0.1% who have yet to realize the game's got little to no content.
(try using google if you want an answer)

Oh, and a new low!
We're down to number 317 on the list of steam games now. Currently 272 onine.
*cheers enthusiastically*

Thought I`d pop back (I don`t care what anyone else thinks) to see what the state of the game is like and just as I thought, next to nothing has been done to add anything to the game. Their silence on this should ring alarm bells to the wise by now, but some refuse to see they`ve been sold a dud.

I think there have been two updates since you went away? Some of us are still playing the game and enjoying it :) It is not the best game ever, but it does offer something of value and has crazy potential, if it can survive the hate-train! ;)

Two completely small updates that do next to nothing to the main game. You were sold a bad game, the proof is out there, the silence at HG is a disservice to the Player, the views by the huge majority is that it`s a major let down, but you got two small updates, so that`s alright? Laughable.

It's more that i did not have a brain-implosion like the rest of the internet over NMS in the first place. I've been gaming a long while and have had my fair share of 'bad' games and hyped games. NMS as it stands does not fall into that group. That is all really.

It's a game, it is not perfect, updates are slowly coming along but in general i like the SP sci-fi gameplay on offer. It's been interesting enough for me to sink about 150 hours into it so far, so that does count (to me) for something. I like to make my own mind up rather than follow knee-jerk trends, but if you or anyone has specific personal issues with the game, that is fine that is your right :) Just as it is mine to say NMS, even as it is, is shaping up to be my GOTY.

If we had had zero updates from HG since it's release i'd probably join in on the more negative side, but even then i see a game that modding can improve and who knows where all that will lead over the coming years (look at the TES/Fallout games after modding etc).

I guess i'm in general a positive and optimistic person, about games and most things.

Down so far on the list now I couldn't even find it.
It says there are currently 294 people playing which should put it into position 385 on the list, but it's nowhere to be seen.
"Nowhere sky" I suppose.

Well done to those that are still enoying it. You can consider yourselves to be the elite of gamers who can still be entertained by what obviously bores the heck out of almost everyone else.

I find it strange how they rigidly stick to something that`s basically a con.

Steam Forums being what they are, yes on Steam NMS is looking pretty dead. Also from Steam we get the data that Hello Games continue to work on the game (those internal-build updates).

However we get no numbers playing reporting from Sony or GOG (do we get that on Galaxy perhaps?), so the Steam numbers are not the whole story, even if an important metric perhaps. Most games have huge drop of pretty soon after release, NMS had an extra big one due to the hate-train stuff.

People are still playing and enjoying the game however, a couple of reddit subs show evidence of that, this is probably the best one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nomanshigh/comments/4yhudh/nms_information_compilation/

Modders are still making mods (that has slown down as they maybe hit the current limit on what can be done?) and in general if you are someone that did not let the hate 'become' the game for you, there is still lots of fun to be had in exploring the game and enjoying what is on offer. To put some context on that i'm now around 200 hours in overall (across a number of game plays) and not even close to finishing the Atlas quest, as i did not make that my priority.

So just because you hate the game, does not mean everyone does, and off course that goes both ways. NMS may not be your kind of game, just as CoD is not my kind of game, and that is fine.

Now excuse we while i go off to finish the fauna cataloguing on this rather tricky (but interesting) inhospitable planet i'm currently on. The views are impressive as is the danger level :)

Oh yes, silly me. The game is doing well, updates and new content are coming out, and people are having a great time playing it.
Of course they are all plaaying on console or GOG where they dont show up on steam.
Or maybe they are setting their steam to offline so they dont show up as someone else suggested.

Whatever, clearly there are lots of people playing incognito.

Well if you stop by that no mans high reddit link, it is kind of surprising how many people are enjoying the game, and even the number of PS4 gamers that post surprised me, those guys do not even have the advantage of mods to fix some of the games main running issues (like the flight model!).

But yes, people are enjoying the game, you are right about that, and patches and updates have come out since release (6 or 7 overall), and the internal build updates have been pretty frequent recently. So on that you are all correct.

I guess we will see what the future brings, but for now it is my main game, and i've restarted a few times and each time it is different enough to be very enjoyable, even in the release form we got.

After +200 hours in the game i still think i enjoy completing the planet fauna and flora scans the most out of the gameplay tasks.

Sometimes they can be incredibly frustrating and more than a few times i just gave up on getting that 100% scan score when a creature just refused to be found, but most of the time i have completed them and when landing on a new planet it is always the richness of life on it that determines if i will stick around on it for hours or days of gameplay.

And yet this system could be much improved imho.

Have the 'Discoveries' screen better help the player find where these creatures are (put the info on that screen in which habitat they are more likely to be found).

Why does the flora count not get included in the final target for uploading? Sure some small rock can be hard to find, but to fully complete this gameplay aspect it would be nice if you could keep a tab on the flora count as well and have that have it's own reward or be part of the total reward given.

Also make completing the flora and fauna hunt more rewarding, there are mods that do this and they really help make this a more viable and interesting part of the gameplay loop. It does not have to be all about the mining or vortex cubes.

I'm glad we got an update on what is coming, there is so much potential in the base game that i hope Hello Games can fight back against the internet campaign against them and the game, it really could be an amazing game, one of a kind :)

Back to 122 on steam.
http://steamcharts.com/app/275850#1m
It would seen numbers have dropped by about 50% since 28 Nov, ie over a period of 15 days.
You expect games to drop off after patches, but this is rather fast.

I think in part that supports what I have been saying about survival mode being fail, as I see this as the only mode for the game which provides any real replay experience.

I cant think of another game which has had such an amazing engine to work with but dropped the ball so badly on gameplay.

Axe grinding still going strong i see. And those are old numbers, the latest are here:

https://steamdb.info/app/275850/graphs/

And while 3,647 for the 24hour peak is still pretty small vs how many people have the game, they are on track to slowly improve player numbers which is good for eveyone, and the updates keep coming.

In relation to the thread topic, i must say they paid a decent amount of attention to the mods and player comments when they re-rolled the game exe with the Foundation update, we have some actual balance in the games world and resource generation now, and while not perfect that whole part of the game (and a big part of it as it involves exploring these alien worlds) is much improved over where it used to be.

I adore the Survival mode as i've mentioned, but i also like the changes i'm seeing in 'normal' mode the resources and difficulty have been tweaked nicely for the 'relaxing' game mode. With the huge PS4 update just dropped we seem in line for some more content for PC too, so HG are doing everything right to repair the damage imho and that has to be applauded as they could have just cut and run with the level of over the top hysterics from the internet dwellers here for the drama of the NMS hate-train.

The game is getting better, they are going to carry on working on that. This is great for NMS fans.