" And who knows... it may be added on after the fact. Lots of games initially start out as single player with multiplayer elements added on later."

He said it was something they were looking at and would come later...later. You know, as in later. Then again pointing this out prevents people from downplaying the game in the name of traditional multiplayer.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

if they just came out and said that there is no way to interact with anyone or see them online that would have been fine. but that isn't what he said or implied.

@Death

You see the problem with that entire "oh he didn't clear it up" argument is that he did on twitter and the NMS website.

Aug 8th

"To be super clear - No Man's Sky is not a multiplayer game. Please don't go in looking for that experience."

Then you'd have to understand how procedural generation works. It would have been impossible to have multiplayer in such a game since each game is generated randomly. It would be like asking two people, each with a set of 4 dice, to roll the same number at EXACTLY the same moment in time.

Yes that's impossible. You'll have better chances to get struck by lightning.

@Hugs: Yeah, sure buddy. Spending years of hyping the game as a multiplayer game should be forgotten because the DAY BEFORE the game is released the creator tweets that it's not a multiplayer game. Yeah, sure..
Let's just forgive him for straight up lying to everybody.

"Sean Murray: The only way to know what you look like is for somebody else to, y'know, see you
Colbert: Can you run into other people, players, in the game?
Sean Murray: Yes"

http://i.imgur.com/9umIVRK....
Sean is a Peter Molyneux wannabe, and too many people let's him get away with it. Sheeps.

@death- "Many people talked about the game they wanted NMS to be. "

That's irrelevant to hello games so they talked about something that the team never stated or even hinted at ever being the game?

"The problem is the guys at Hello did nothing to clear up what people thought the game was."

So if 100 people have a 100 different ideas of what they want no man Sky to be why on Earth should Hello games go out of their way in explaining to hundreds of different people what the game isn't ,when it's easier to just State what it is?

I'm sorry but ignorance is not a virtue and it's a completely stupid excuse you're basically saying for the dumb slow dim-witted people we should have someone go out and continue to repeat themselves as opposed to just ignore them.

it is not any developer's fault that a gamer decides to make up what they think the game is when the information has been provided to the public and all the damn places that it legally needs to be on their website on their Facebook page on their YouTube page and all over the public.

Being stupid is not an excuse.

If you think multiplayer makes a game interesting why don't you actually go play a multiplayer game? In fact if the damn developers telling you that this is what it's not, wouldn't that already stop you from purchasing the game in the first place?

I'm sorry but it's not the developer's fault that stupid people exist and decide that they don't want to listen to facts regarding a game.

If you honestly believe that the developer withheld information or misguided the public or advertised the game falsely take your claims to court.

Whenever I hear Gamers try to bring up such grievances against developers are publishers usually what holds them in their tracks is telling them if their grievances are real they should have no problem taking it to court.

The very thing you're talking about is illegal!!! if what you're saying is absolutely 100% true then it technically means you could take it to a court of law and sue them for false advertising.

So let's sue Activision because Call of Duty is not an MMORPG kart racing game?

@wellyuk- the concept of No Man's sky was never created to be a multiplayer title.

I could see the benefits of No Man's Sky being a huge Avast MMO just like I could see the benefits of Dead Space being an amazing cover based multiplayer competitive shooter like Gears of War but the reality is it's just what you believe the game was going to be as a multiplayer game or simply Fanboy wishful thinking?

There's what you want and there is reality this is no different than the people that bag for single-player portions in games that are primarily multiplayer expecting some Bioshock like single player but this is also no different than games that have multiplayer portions that were attacked on in Gamers expecting it to be this amazing competitive Battlefield or Counter-Strike like experience.

What has Halo games done to have ever shown they could create such a complex Network MMORPG?

Did you seemingly forget that the game was made by about 5 people?

Again there is what you fabricated in your mind and actually reality I could assure you Battlefield 1 single player is not going to be some Half-Life or BioShock 2 defining single player, just like Titanfall 2 single player is not going to be some Game of the Year contender, it's a great example to show that people cried about Titanfall one not having some deep single player , well do you really believe with its sequel you're going to get that?

People were talking about RPG's they were even talking about Mass Effect and other type games in regards to what Titanfall one single player could have been completely, disregarding that the team has zero history of ever producing such a title, they've basically made up a fantasy in their mind of what they think it could be, absolutely disregarding all reality....

So when you say that no man's Sky multiplayer could be a fascinating thing are you saying this based on absolutely unrealistic wild dream? What has this team done that could ever support what you're actually saying?

Buddy this is no different than the people that were making it sound like Titanfall 1 single player could have been some Milestone story and experience....

I never believed that even for a slight moment based on the history of the team and we now finally get to see once and for all when Titanfall 2 story is shown to Gamers this is what you guys were going to get, please stop making up and fabricating with your imagination what you think the outcome will be based on nothing but fantasy.

No man's sky was made from a team of 5 people how many MMOs do you know where made in such a short period in time from a team of this little?

What you think would have been a great thing I can assure you was never going to be reality , consider Star Citizen is still being developed and its base concept is no man sky's BUT an MMO!

***ye but then again not every game needs a SP either... Can you really not see the benefits of NMS having a MP?***

Did you not read what I wrote? First sentence even addresses SP. And, regardless of the "benefits" there are also negatives to it having MP, such as creating another game that is online required when the focus becomes MP focused as well as griefing by other players or the like (depends on the design, but just look at games like Rust and State of Decay for how other players actually drive people away from the game rather than to the game).

I like to leave those decisions up to the developers. If I ever made a game, it would be SP only for the sole fact that it makes balancing the game design 1000x easier to do. I'd like to think that the people would respect my decision to do that rather than argue it should be there.