No Man's Sky: Support Thread

[SeventhSandwich]

Believe it or not, people are still buying this game whether you like it or not. lol

According to SteamSpy.com, it hasn't turned a profit on Steam since August 24th (due to so many refunds). To continue spending money on employee salaries and earning a profit (assuming avg employee salary of $45k/yr), the game needs to continue to sell $675,000 worth of copies every single year, discounting the fees associated with Steam and other publishing expenses.

How long do you think it'll take before the 'sales' line on the graph dips below the 'employee salary' line? Because that's exactly as long as they'll continue seriously developing this game. Less so even, if they decide to anticipate a drop and lay off employees, or just otherwise invest human resources into new projects.

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[Lord Tony®]

If it had the early access tag everyone would be loving this game, lol. loving sheeps.

I mean, it's not like early access games have been known to be complete and utter failures also full of lies.

[IkeTheGeneric]

If it had the early access tag everyone would be loving this game, lol. loving sheeps.

If it had the early access tag the only thing that would be different is that you would be going on about how it's still in development so everyone is wrong about everything because it's unfinished

In that scenario, less people would probably be trying to refund it and there would still be people having fun with it.

[Lord Tony®]

If it had the early access tag the only thing that would be different is that you would be going on about how it's still in development so everyone is wrong about everything because it's unfinished

Nah because you people wouldn't be bitching in the first place.

Since everyone will assume the features will be added in later instead of assuming the game will never get updated. lol

[Lord Tony®]

According to SteamSpy.com,

It's on gog too bro.

[SeventhSandwich]

If it had the early access tag everyone would be loving this game, lol. loving sheeps.

Probably because their expectations would have been better adjusted to what they actually received. Remember that they didn't pay for half of a game plus continued development, they just paid for a game.

I mean, it's not like early access games have been known to be complete and utter failures also full of lies.

Of course not, but my experience with them has definitely been, on average, worse than games released after full development time. It's also very rare that they continue to make major changes and updates to games after a successful early-access release, just because the economic incentive is no longer there.

It's on gog too bro.

Couldn't find the sales figures for Gog, but I've never even heard of that website until just now. They're probably losing more to Steam refunds than they're gaining on that website. Just a hunch.

[IkeTheGeneric]

Wait Tony, do you play NMS on the console?

[Lord Tony®]

Wait Tony, do you play NMS on the console?

Yeah, what of it?!

[IkeTheGeneric]

Just wondering

[Jairo]

Wait Tony, do you play NMS on the console?

if his youtube stream is anything to go by, yes. he plays on ps4

[IkeTheGeneric]

I've only played the PS4 version so I didn't know how much it varied from the PC version.

[e-maxx]

Tony has gone in circles so many times with the nms argument he's three feet shorter then everyone else.

[Flatflyer]

honestly the only reason I believed no mans sky wouldnt be like starbound or any of those games was because they DIDNT list it as early access, giving me hope we were going to have a full game.

but no, they loving gave us the same stuff as an early access but they didnt say it was, yet again an example of hello games being a loving scam of a company trying to prey off of misinterpretation and lies.

[Lord Tony®]

Why does it need the loving early access title? lol

It's just a title and early access games are scams too.

[Shift Kitty]

That's why it needed the early access tag, so we would've known.