Sean Murray on Fixing No Man's Sky

This video from a 2019 GDC Main Stage session features Sean Murray of Hello Games discussing the initial launch of No Man's Sky (thanks Ant). He addresses the negative reception their space exploration game met with and the challenges they faced in getting things on the right track. The description has a more detailed outline:
A small and unlikely team was behind one of the most ambitious and anticipated games of 2016. In this 2019 GDC Main Stage session, Hello Games' Sean Murray takes us behind the scenes during the intense and dramatic launch of one the biggest selling new IPs in recent years. He demonstrates how his team found the grit to deal with releasing an innovative and polarizing game into an increasingly vocal gaming landscape, and details how through determination and love in 2019 they have built to record player numbers and positivity amongst their most negative detractors. This candid and open discussion will show the power of focusing on what you do, rather than what you say, in the face of adversity.

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Kxmode wrote on Apr 2, 2019, 13:51:
Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 2, 2019, 12:16:
"... in 2019 they have built to record player numbers and positivity amongst their most negative detractors..."

But you'll never convince Kxmode!

Pay attention.

Yeah but those things aren't needed for the game to be fun...
#1 is a game needs to be fun. Realism usually is a slog..


I picked this up back in June and played ~70 hours on it. It a good relaxing experience. There's a lot of things still missing out of the game but overall it's a pretty good "exploration" type game.

You meet really weird creatures, really weird planets.. what you don't get is realism but that's not needed.

Things that are overall bad about the game:
-Combat
-Every single building is the same cookie cutter
-every star port is the same
-Missions are fundamentally boring
-Dialect is just another grind, wish they did this system better.

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