I really must have missed something, so I'm just plain going to ask:
What, exactly, happened to spark all the hate for No Man's Sky?
The only thing I've been able to sift from all the hate-chatter is that there is no PvP Pew-Pew fest possibilities.
Is that it? All the time I hear people talk so badly about it, usually just repeating the same couple of catchy sounding name parodies, but never expressing their own reasons for all the hate.
I'd even question if any of the people spouting off about it have even played it.
No, it's not Elite. No, you can't spend your days endlessly ganking newbies.
But it was never meant to be either. So if someone would be willing, I'd like to hear what your own, personal, not I-read-on-some-other-site recycled rhetoric, reasons are.
And before this is moved to some forgotten corner of the forums, I'll tie this in with how it's related to Elite.
Bugs:
Every single game has them at one point or another. Some get fixed quickly, others remain persistent for quite some time. Elite is no exception. Right now NMS is suffering a major bug that makes it near impossible to fly around anywhere - frame rates drop to nearly non-existent. But Elite has its own fair share of bugs as well. We complain about them, report them, make fun of them, but even this doesn't generate the same magnitude of hate. Really the only negativity I generally see regarding Elite is:
1. The Difficulty - plenty of people find Elite too complicated. It's more flight-sim than game, and while there are tutorials and a massive manual, these only scratch the surface of the features and capabilities. I don't have a problem with this - in fact I enjoy discovering things and how things work.
2. The Community - Yep, this is the other area of Elite that seems to put people off - between acrid forum posters full of vitriol and griefers in open, this casts quite a dark shadow indeed. Some of which is probably justified. I know I've seen more than my fair share of angry, bitter, angsty postings here, and while I've never had a run in with griefers in open myself (though I admit my time in Open is somewhat limited), I have run in to plenty of folks who have.
So granted, not every game is for everyone. Some play styles are better suited to other games, and some players are likewise better suited to other games as well. But when there is this magnitude of division I have to wonder as to its origins. And on the flip side, if you search around the various NMS forums, you just don't see the same levels of intolerance or hate - in fact, the majority of comments are rather positive ones, with a few mentions of the above 2 points, and the occasional "I couldn't find anything to do", which makes me think these folks simply couldn't figure out how missions work.
So fill me in - what did I miss?
What, exactly, happened to spark all the hate for No Man's Sky?
The only thing I've been able to sift from all the hate-chatter is that there is no PvP Pew-Pew fest possibilities.
Is that it? All the time I hear people talk so badly about it, usually just repeating the same couple of catchy sounding name parodies, but never expressing their own reasons for all the hate.
I'd even question if any of the people spouting off about it have even played it.
No, it's not Elite. No, you can't spend your days endlessly ganking newbies.
But it was never meant to be either. So if someone would be willing, I'd like to hear what your own, personal, not I-read-on-some-other-site recycled rhetoric, reasons are.
And before this is moved to some forgotten corner of the forums, I'll tie this in with how it's related to Elite.
Bugs:
Every single game has them at one point or another. Some get fixed quickly, others remain persistent for quite some time. Elite is no exception. Right now NMS is suffering a major bug that makes it near impossible to fly around anywhere - frame rates drop to nearly non-existent. But Elite has its own fair share of bugs as well. We complain about them, report them, make fun of them, but even this doesn't generate the same magnitude of hate. Really the only negativity I generally see regarding Elite is:
1. The Difficulty - plenty of people find Elite too complicated. It's more flight-sim than game, and while there are tutorials and a massive manual, these only scratch the surface of the features and capabilities. I don't have a problem with this - in fact I enjoy discovering things and how things work.
2. The Community - Yep, this is the other area of Elite that seems to put people off - between acrid forum posters full of vitriol and griefers in open, this casts quite a dark shadow indeed. Some of which is probably justified. I know I've seen more than my fair share of angry, bitter, angsty postings here, and while I've never had a run in with griefers in open myself (though I admit my time in Open is somewhat limited), I have run in to plenty of folks who have.
So granted, not every game is for everyone. Some play styles are better suited to other games, and some players are likewise better suited to other games as well. But when there is this magnitude of division I have to wonder as to its origins. And on the flip side, if you search around the various NMS forums, you just don't see the same levels of intolerance or hate - in fact, the majority of comments are rather positive ones, with a few mentions of the above 2 points, and the occasional "I couldn't find anything to do", which makes me think these folks simply couldn't figure out how missions work.
So fill me in - what did I miss?
