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Originally Posted by PermaGrin
How is it odd?
I bought it not caring what it was really. I expected a lonely space exploration and got that.
I was just trying to show how the "hype" factor of this game seems to have opened more people's eye than normal. The whole hype VS what you get thing I have been noticing for MANY years, other seems to just now seeing as a "problem".
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Its odd for a number of reasons. First, a LOT of gamers have recognized the hype factor for a very long time now. No Mans Sky isn't the first game to have had huge hype only to deiver something well under what was expected. The hype problem was widely recognized as far back as the original Fable game on the original Xbox. Peter Molyneux was famous for hyping his games and promising tons of features that never wound up making it into the retail version of the games. No Mans Sky is just the latest in a very long list of games that didn't live up to the hype. Your acting as if people are just now recognizing this fact and that just isn't the case at all.
2nd, even at full retail price games are just ridiculously cheap compared to what games used to cost. The gaming industy is literally the only industry that I know of that has been completely immune from inflation. PC games and console games have been $49.99-$59.99 dating all the way back to the original Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games. Some N64 games were more than $59.99. Had the game industy adjusted for inflation like every other market the world over, retail games would be at least $80-90 bucks right now, and that is actually a pretty low estimate.
Gaming has literally never been cheaper. What makes this even more amazing is the fact that games have gotten VASTLY more expensive to produce as thier made by MUCH larger teams/studios, they require VASTLY more development time (sometimes up to 4-5+ years), are they are vastly more complex and vastly larger in size an scope, and yet the price for retail games has basically remaind unchaged the last 30+ years. On top of that games go on sale much faster then they ever did before and are discounted by much larger margins. You can easily find games for as much as 40%-50% off in as little as a few months.
Amazon and Best Buy now have gamer clubs that take 20% off new game purchases, which brings the price of new full retail released down to $48.00 at launch. And don't even get me started on the PC side of gaming. You can regularly find game bundles for insanely cheap prices, someties for as little as .50 per game. I have 2839 games in my Steam account, over 400 games on my GOG account, and roughly 400 games on my Desura account and most of those games were purchased for absolutely dirst cheap prices (.50 to a few dollars apiece).
And yes, its a little odd that you write a post condemning a game and the hype it recieved only to buy the game at full price yourself, regardless of the reasons. And I have no idea how No Mans Sky turned out to be exacty what you thought since every single demo they ran for that game made it out to be much better than it was and pretty much every single article was guilty of the same thing.
Yes, overhyping games is a prolem in this industry, but again that is not something new. This problem dates back all the way to the original Xbox and many of the games released for it. Its a very widely know issue these days, but people are still buying them anyways as very few peple trust
