@Ra: Thanks - for a second there I thought price should be reflective of a game's development costs, so it's a relief to hear that hopes and dreams are the determining factor... sa-sa-sa-sa-SARCASM!!!

@poppin

As smug as you sound, I assume you have hard data on exactly how much it has cost to develop No Man's Sky? Let's hear it...if you feel so confident calling it a budget title then you must have plain evidence to back that up...

Just because Hello Games is a small team, that doesn't mean their budget is miniscule. Sony is helping to back this game so I'd assume there's been a decent amount spent on advertising alone at this point, much less the game itself.

More than anything, it's a quality proposition. If you base your spending on the size of budgets then I feel for you. I've felt more burned by big budget AAA $60 retail fare than any other form. I've had more fun w/ $10 titles than many $60 ones. Effort & creativity is something you can't put a price tag on. Devs have wasted millions to make garbage heaps, doesn't mean they deserve that full price any more than more talented cats that spent less & ended up with so much more.

Bottom line is you have no idea what NMS value proposition is, and as someone who obviously won't be picking it up until it hits Xbox anyway, I'm not sure your opinion on this subject somehow matters more than the large group of people happy to pay full price for a potentially great game.

Sony is not publishing NMS, they are distributing it, so they do not set the price, Hello Games does....

@jb227

Man, in the real world as you get older you need to learn how to see the forest for the trees. Experience, personality and logic can fill in so many blanks in life it's not even funny. Just be cautious how you use those abilities because they CAN be wrong...

But EVERYTHING I have ever learned is telling me NMS will get old after the 3rd or so planet you fly to. Your NOT going to explore a randomly generated planet because there is NO point. You're NOT going to care about visiting the same piece of rock that's a different color/temperature more than a few times in order to realize, "It's all the same fkn thing!"

After a planet or 2, your going to notice all the animals are from the same design, and just have random number generators attached to their limbs/colors/body part sizes etc etc etc... You will literally be able to SEE the math in motion.

Kids, being so ignorant will be able to visit 100 planets and laugh and have a great time, and i'm HAPPY for them!... But any self respecting adult should know better. You can't build, you can't create, you can barely modify and in the end? All you really do is gas up, upgrade shields and attempt to drive towards the center of a laughably overrated game world.

I want to go on record saying Proc Gen IS THE FUTURE. Someday, cities/house interiors/npc's lives will be fully randomly generated in a few clicks of a software program, and then it's ALL about programming an AI with a mission/personality/story that you play as/with...

But now?... As great as it is to see the software evolve, this isn't 10% as epic as people are making it out to be.

It's a sadness grown men can't see this.

@Jess So, you are okay with limiting your experience and destroying the imagination. That's the true sadness. You're worse off than the men you talk about. Wow, and you're a gamer? Hardly.

Having to use your imagination to make a game more meaningful is a sign of a bad game IMO..

Can't you just imagine visiting other worlds? The game is made so you don't have to.

No.

With a concept as unique as no man Sky they are correct to charge full price for their work.

@n4rc you know imagination and immersion create the experience for ALL games right? You, and the people agreeing with you are lost. You understand nothing.