No Man's Sky - Procedural space game

wordy · 7 Sep 2016 at 15:46

Boycey0211 said:
To be fair they are lovely screenies... might fire it up for another go later on, see if I can find anything going on.

On another note having spoken to the ASA they've suggested its worth pursuing false advertising so I've gone for that.

You're considering taking HG or Valve to court?

Boycey0211 · 7 Sep 2016 at 16:19

wordy said:
You're considering taking HG or Valve to court?

CBA with court, but reported them for false advertising anyway.

If enough people did it maybe these practices would stop, and we'd actually get some digital goods rights.

Defiant306 · 8 Sep 2016 at 08:25

Take them to the small claims court, I would think that they wont turn up for it. Your real problem is getting your money if you win.

Boycey0211 · 8 Sep 2016 at 11:24

Defiant306 said:
Take them to the small claims court, I would think that they wont turn up for it. Your real problem is getting your money if you win.

Its not worth losing all the other games on my steam account for though tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if steam just go 'ok heres youre £40 back, by the way we've locked your account'.

Radec · 8 Sep 2016 at 14:42

See, pre ordering is literally pointless.

Boycey0211 · 8 Sep 2016 at 14:54

Radec said:
See, pre ordering is literally pointless.

In my case my complaint isn't with preordering, I deliberately avoided the hype but had one weekend available that month to game, so waiting for reviews on Monday morning wouldn't have been any good.

I still say the game isn't bad as such, but I haven't got the product that steam have advertised and let me pay for, and that's my point, it isnt right for anyone or any game to be able to do that to consumers and then tell them to jog on when they ask for their money back.

If it had released the same day as the PS4 then the reviews would have been out by Friday, and I wouldn't be doing this.

me227 · 10 Sep 2016 at 17:49

Boycey0211 said:
In my case my complaint isn't with preordering, I deliberately avoided the hype but had one weekend available that month to game, so waiting for reviews on Monday morning wouldn't have been any good.

I still say the game isn't bad as such, but I haven't got the product that steam have advertised and let me pay for, and that's my point, it isnt right for anyone or any game to be able to do that to consumers and then tell them to jog on when they ask for their money back.

If it had released the same day as the PS4 then the reviews would have been out by Friday, and I wouldn't be doing this.

I've written a complaint to the ASA too. Also had no luck at all with Steam's useless CS. In my request I even included screenshots of users profiles who had played it more recently and for longer than me but they got their refund.

I'm thinking of writing in to the BBC Consumer Watchdog to see if they'd be interested.

Bergkamp · 10 Sep 2016 at 18:30

me227 said:
I've written a complaint to the ASA too. Also had no luck at all with Steam's useless CS. In my request I even included screenshots of users profiles who had played it more recently and for longer than me but they got their refund.

I'm thinking of writing in to the BBC Consumer Watchdog to see if they'd be interested.

Sounds like a plan. They've made big companies backtrack before and the advertising campaign for NMS seems absolutely shocking. I'm very glad I dodged NMS but I'd still very much like to see someone's pockets being hurt for the lies and deception.

Sankari · 11 Sep 2016 at 12:19

So after months of hype, this game is exposed as all talk and no trousers. What a bunch of blaggers the developers turned out to be.

Bitterly disappointed.

Raumarik · 11 Sep 2016 at 12:39

Radec said:
See, pre ordering is literally pointless.

It always has been, I tend to buy games a few week after release when on the forums here people have played it and my favourite youtubers have given opinions especially the likes of "Worth a buy" etc.

You still tend to get the pre-order bonuses even a couple of months after release.

docsonic · 11 Sep 2016 at 17:51

Bishie said:
Another one of my favourites:

Great screenie!

Bishie · 11 Sep 2016 at 21:18

docsonic said:
Great screenie!

It was quite popular on Reddit! I got it made into a canvas print to stick on my wall!

Seanspeed · 11 Sep 2016 at 21:41

Halfmad said:
It always has been

I've gotten some great deals on pre-orders. And have never regretted it.

Dont pre-order games by unproven devs or with games that you're not 100% confident you are going to want to play.

Brizzles · 11 Sep 2016 at 21:49

shaggyd said:
Yes, give us deadly creatures, who come out of the caves, hunting, during night time or atrocious weather conditions. A bit like those nasty ugly ones in Pitch Black and Riddick movies.

But also give us huge ships or carriers, that we can leave in orbit. So we can store large volumes of minerals and spare ships, each unique to certain atmospheric conditions. Introduce faction wars and huge, deadly sentinels who are hell bent on killing the last human.

Give this man a job at HG please

trentlad · 12 Sep 2016 at 05:49

OOOO!! How good does that sound!

Absolutely love the idea of the Riddick beasts.

Bishie said:
future free updates which will improve, expand and build on the No Man’s Sky universe

Free DLC! That's fantastic news.

swanseajack · 13 Sep 2016 at 22:57

Is there a way to see how far away from the galactic core you are, I've warped over 220 times and just wondering how far left to go.

trentlad · 14 Sep 2016 at 03:55

When you select warp and it allows you to pick the next star, the information provided about the star also provides its relative distance from the center in light years.

trentlad · 14 Sep 2016 at 03:57

Has anyone warped past an anomoly without checking it out? Will it appear again in order the next time or have you lost all hope of finding that one if you skipped it?

sastusbulbas · 14 Sep 2016 at 12:08

Not played this game, but would be pretty interested if I could have an EEC Ecological seed ship.

swanseajack · 14 Sep 2016 at 16:09

trentlad said:
When you select warp and it allows you to pick the next star, the information provided about the star also provides its relative distance from the center in light years.

Cheers, must pay more attention lol