Yeah, can't blame the man for this. He outright states, multiple times, that this is not a multiplayer game..
There are as much quotes of him telling the press it isn't competitive multiplayer but players will be able to meet each others
And also quotes about it being lobby'd multiplayer where players wouldn't be able to see all other players.
Never mind the potential for stuff they can't control like people playing through Strict NAT.
"the only way to see what you look like is to look at another player if you find them"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AE0nuW-mQ8A
If we were to make a game where we synchronized every player, what they were doing with every other player, then that would be impossible and no one has ever done that. What we can do is, like many games that you have at the moment, where you are flying around with an open lobby. People are coming into that lobby and leaving it – like if you play Watch Dogs or something like that. Effectively, we have players joining your discrete space.
And the server was offline for most of launch day, hence discovery upload being down. So no player matching. Even if they hadn't also said that not all players could match with all other players.
Please, at least try to educate yourself on what's going on instead of repeating rantings from the steam forums verbatim.
IIRC Steam can do NAT punchthrough. Does PS4 not provide the same capability to developers?
Possibly not. It's also possible that they might not have used it--for example, I couldn't do Warframe multiplayer because of my NAT setting, despite playing it through Steam. If it's their own network infrastructure that could very well be a problem. Or, as above, it could just have been that the matchmaking wasn't working because the server was down. Or they deactivated multiplayer at launch to help reduce the load on the server and didn't think anyone would find each other that quickly.
people feeling cheated because of shitty marketing? looks like i was also right about that :v
really though, the marketing very obviously encouraged this kind of hype. they deserve any shit they get, even if they say "we didn't TECHNICALLY lie!!"
Sean has literally spent the past two years saying that this is not a multiplayer game, that you're not going to be able to interact meaningfully with other players, and that people who want that should play games that offer it. If some loony ignores all of that and daydreams about NMS being a MMO Space Minecraft then assumes that that's how the game is going to be, that's not marketing, it's mental illness.
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