No Man's Sky

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Ambiturner

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No the system is pretty fucking retarded. Being able to own the rights to a basic word is just dumb.
Yeah, nobody here is bitching about a company aggressively defending their trademark, it's shit these companies are trying to trademark that's bullshit.
 

Palum

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Just to clarify trademark != patent and they have different legal rights and requirements for maintenance.
 

spronk

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even though the steam page still says Aug 9th,About | No Mans Skysays NMS is going to launch on PS4 on Aug 9th (Aug 10th in Europe) and PC on Aug 12th

I'll be playing at first on PS4 (LE with extra stuff) and may swap to PC if the game ends up being good
 

hodj

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Jeff Dee made a great case for who this game will be considered "good" by, and that's primarily people who love rogue-likes.

I think he might be on to something there.
 

Lenas

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For those still wondering about multiplayer...

No Man's Sky will not require the premium PlayStation Plus susbcription to play when it launches Aug. 9, Sony confirmed to Game Informer Australia.

There had been a concern it might be required because of the game's significant online infrastructure and the potential to meet other players in its vast space environment.However, the possibility of such contact is so remote that both Sony and developer Hello Games consider No Man's Sky to be a single-player game, thus exempting its online features from a PS Plus membership.
No Mans Sky will not need a PlayStation Plus subscription to play | Polygon
 

Utnayan

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I have a new theory. There never WAS a multiplayer component. We are playing in a localized sandbox, and along with procgen everything, they also had a VERY small sample variable of the chance you will run into a named planet, which will also be procedurally generated. And with that HG has been full of shit this entire time. And how the hell would we know?
 

Kedwyn

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Doesn't make sense to build a multiplayer layer in a game that will never get used. So I'd tend to agree
 

Abefroman

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The multiplayer part is what many people were excited about. The remote chance stuff is pure bullshit. They truth is they couldn't make it work or never intended too.
 

Soygen

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I'm not sure how anyone was excited over something they have constantly downplayed and provided next to no information on.
 

Utnayan

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I'm not sure how anyone was excited over something they have constantly downplayed and provided next to no information on.
70 Questions And Answers About No Mans Sky - YouTube

Some of those, "You can play with friends" - so people are thinking immediately, hey sweet, we can explore together. Nope. Now, in fact, you probably won't see anyone at all or even run across a named planet for all we know.

The cheapest and most deceptive way to solve that, would be to procgen/fake out everyone. Procgen/Bots.

Has anyone even seen how we name something yet? The last video I saw was Colbert and he was just pointing at something and the name just appeared out of thin air.
 

a_skeleton_03

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Yeah I have gone into this game expecting zero multiplayer at all.

It just looks fun for me. I am a sucker for bright landscapes and rogue likes.
 

Mario Speedwagon

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At this point, I don't think there's any chance that all the "very low chance of encountering other players" isn't just an out and out lie and that this game will have zero multi-player component as an sane person would define multi-player.
 

Abefroman

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At this point, I don't think there's any chance that all the "very low chance of encountering other players" isn't just an out and out lie and that this game will have zero multi-player component as an sane person would define multi-player.
You know the internet is gonna test that very low chance bullshit out asap. I look forward to the what the fuck is this shit videos where people meet up but can't see each other.
 

Noodleface

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The fact that psn isn't even considering the amount of traffic going in/out as significant is telling enough
 

hodj

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Some guy got the game early.

He's uploading videos of him playing it.

Not much up yet, and may get shut down eventually, but for now there's at least 1 video here showing the starting moments of the game.

More supposedly to be uploaded shortly.

Opening Credits / Intro - Video Dailymotion
 

Izo

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Some guy got the game early.

He's uploading videos of him playing it.

Not much up yet, and may get shut down eventually, but for now there's at least 1 video here showing the starting moments of the game.

More supposedly to be uploaded shortly.

Opening Credits / Intro - Video Dailymotion
Gone, meh
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Lenas

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I watched the first video of the intro but didn't look at anything beyond that. This game will probably be disappointing enough that I don't want the one cool part, the visuals, to be spoiled before I ever touch it.