No Man's Sky Being Investigated For Misleading Advertisement

[Hannah591]

Most of you have heard of the game, "No Man's Sky" which is meant to look like this:

But actually looks more like this:

Unfortunately, the video game creators "Hello Games" aren't being investigated by Advertising Standards Authority, but the gaming platform Steam is being investigated after numerous complaints about their advertising being very misleading; depicting insanely large animals, in depth scenery, flowing water and even game play that was nowhere to be found in the game. Sean Murray, the creator of the game, claimed it was also a multiplayer game and you could meet other players and maintained this claim up until a week before it was released, only for gamers to learn that this was a complete lie.

It's not clear as to why Steam is being investigated, when they're simply sharing advertising that was created by "Hello Games" and it should be entirely their responsibility.

Since its release, Sean Murray has gone under the radar and understandably so, because he's the most hated man in gaming right now. Unhappy gamers want answers, apologies, confessions and most of all, refunds or maybe even the game they wanted in the first place.

Two players finding each other on a stream in the first day - that has blown my mind

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 10, 2016

Yes, two players were on the same planet together - but they couldn't see each other, which destroys the "multiplayer" idea. In response to this tweet of his, there were numerous meme photos that accurately describe what's happening, especially the fact that all of Sean Murray's tweets are just focusing on the little good his game brings. You can see the sheer avoidance amongst the customer support tweets.

YOU GUYS! LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE PLAYING NO MAN'S SKY RIGHT NOW!
like... lots of people... you guys... lots of people...

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 9, 2016

On the day of launch, it had 200,000+ people playing simultaneously but only two weeks later, just 25,000+ people were playing.

All pretty shocking from a man who claims to be "The Susan Boyle of video games".

[AhGojira]

Well anyone that was paying attention would have known it was going to suck. I thought some of the procedural generation they were doing was interesting, but I knew the game was going to suck due to the mechanics. I never bought it or played it. Even when people I knew pirated it and asked if I wanted a copy I said no it's not worth playing. They played it for about an hour and then said man this sucks. I then said I told you so. :D

As to you're complaints about the "look", to me it just looks like they reskinned their prototype, likely due to performance issues. I know the feeling... I'm working on a game myself, and I procedurally generate large cities with building you can enter, various types of streets, sidewalks, props, nature elements, weather system, day night cycle, AI controlled pedestrian and automobile traffic, etc. and I've run through many iterations to try to optimize a number of models and textures, pooling objects, etc. to make the game run smoothly on lower end computers. The more layers you add, the harder it is to keep that FPS up.

[Hannah591]

At first, with false videos and advertising, it wasn't very clear that it would suck.

[AhGojira]

If you watched the development videos the mechanics (game play) of the game were explained.

[PrincessofNohr]

This shit has been going on for years, from Aliens Colonial Marines to Watchdogs. People seemed to give a shit when Hello Games did it, but not when Gearbox or Ubisoft lied. Why do AAA companies get a pass, while indie developers get all the wrath. Spread the hate evenly.

[Hannah591]

Watch Dogs was a bit of a slop tbf.

[Waffles731]

actually there was a class action lawsuit against gearbox

[AllThatSweetJazz]

All he had to say was that it was a tech demo for a real game and it would have been fine. He would have had people throw more money at him to continue work. I feel there's definitely some blame that needs to fall on Sony for pushing this though too hard.

[Yumix]

I bought No Man's Sky on launch even though I knew it wouldn't get close to what they promised, but the disappointment was still huge. I've often bought game where I knew I wouldn't play them much but I never felt having my money so much than on this one in a looooooooooooong time

[Yumix]

having wasted* my money

[Hannah591]

Could've bought it for half the price on eBay brand new.

[Yumix]

On launch? for ps4? no.
from some shady key seller for PC, yes. But I didn't want it for PC.

I paid 50€, if I check the sold games on launch on eBay Germany, they are all 50€+ and I have to pay 5€+ shipping costs on them. From other European countries it's even higher to my country.
1-2 weeks later they are 4x€, with the shipping costs still not worth it. But if I had waited for a week or longer I wouldn't have bought it at all after seeing what's wrong with it.

I was impatient and knew it wouldn't live up to it's hype and still risked it. So, not gonna complain about the money and my own stupidity. Just saying that it was one of the biggest disappointments despite my already low expectations and because of that, it felt like a waste of money.

Even more than Sims 4 lol, which is close on second position :P

[Nothanks700]

That game was one of the worst I've ever seen. It makes the watchdogs promo to actual seem innocent by comparison. This was just flat out false advertising.

[Fathoms77]

I'm not big on these massive MMO-ish, wander around with no story experiences, anyway, so I never bothered with No Man's Sky.

But Hello Games made Joe Danger and that's what matters. :P

[KaelRhain]

i saw the hype, i didn't hype.
i saw the flop, it was sad.
I still wanna play it someday, when they fix it a little more.

[Hannah591]

They're constantly updating it right now and you can buy it for less than half the price now.

[Supermosh1990]

woe that's interesting, it's like killzone shadow fall (some one sues for misleading advertising

[TripleAce]

Yea that's horrible. Have you tried it? Is it still a good game though? Looks cool

[Hannah591]

You can still enjoy it but it just feels unfinished, though they've released updates and things for it to improve it. It's frozen twice since I've played it but so has Witcher 3.

[anonman32]

Steam has ZERO quality guarantee. Its insane what they get away with.

[Anonymous]

i thought it all sounded a bit too-cool-to-be-true from before it was even released. im glad i didn't buy and waited it out instead

[YourFutureEx]

This guy is shameless.

[Waffles731]

I did hear about this, fucking crazy

[SnowHearth]

It reminds me of politicians.

[Amanda2]

Wow just wow