Remember No Man’s Sky? Hello Games founder Sean Murray posted on X announcing that the game has finally hit the “Very Positive” review rating on Steam, eight years since the game’s disastrous launch. “You have no idea what this means to us,” he wrote in the post.
Redemption For No Man’s Sky
No Man’s Sky was controversially launched back in 2016 when its developer Hello Games uncharacteristically commanded a triple-A-grade $60 price tag, promising a game with procedurally-generated open-world environments. However, technical issues and bad communications has resulted in the game’s notoriety and a case study of how not to market a game.
Since then, the team at Hello Games has been slowly but surely releasing big fixes and content updates for free to make amends. Eight years on, the game has climbed from Overwhelmingly Negative rating to Very Positive, which indicates the game has attained over 80% of positive reviews from nearly 246,000 it received. The game achieved Mixed rating by 2018, and it took another three years to hit Mostly Positive. Ultimately, it was a commercial success for Hello Games, with over 10 millions copies sold since its launch.
No Man’s Sky follows Cyberpunk 2077 to be another comeback story in the video game industry, the latter of which is also a victim of overwhelming hype and underwhelming launch. To this day, No Man’s Sky is still releasing content updates – though CP2077 has officially stopped getting new content short for technical updates and bugfixes moving forward, as the Poland-based developer has moved on to the next Witcher title.
Source: Engadget
Pokdepinion: While it is nice for developers to make amends, it’s always better to make the game polished from the get-go.
