Yep, the problem with launch was that it took a good 10-20h to really realize there wasn't anything else. It took a good 30-40-50-60..or so many hours to get to the end and truly see in the eye of evil and how bad and demonic marketing can be.
No one should ever forget and should never forgive. But the horse is beyond dead now, NMS is like a ghost horse at this point. Only thing that annoys me is not the game anymore, it's the media / youtube. It honestly feels like people are baiting when they say "This update bring so much
new stuff!
Free updates!".
Those youtubers doing "Should you give NMS a Second Chance after All The FREE Updates?" and "WATCH THIS: Hello Games was very nice to give people more content!" and getting 200k average views is pure bait to me. I.e. people are still trying to monetize rage. And all of this attention still makes it as if NMS is or was truly intended to be a "special" game, that sits above others.
The game has a bunch of quirks that will hopefully be fixed (after all the effort they put in it, would be silly not to fix simple UI/UX/Performance stuff), but what I'd rather have people understand is what I said before, NMS is a
Chill Procedural Survival-Arcade Game, where "exploration" means that sometimes you might bump into vistas or views that may make you say "damn, this looks cool" or "why every planet in this system all have animals that seems to have foxes as their ancestors..?", and it doesn't go beyond that. At all. I have no idea why it gets so much attention while games I can spend 1000h on like X4 Foundation gets no attention at all - again, this is what currently pisses me off: NMS is not most people cup of tea but all the talks on it somehow made a lot of people think it is.
This was mentioned before in the thread about it being a niche game that people took as mainstream.
I do hope/wish they do more updates though. Because then it
might get close to the original promises and could potentially go beyond that. Not in a hardcore, deep-and-wide, cold-and-hard way, but in it's on 'chill' way.
As an addict/fan of space games I'd see no harm into more honest work being put into it. Could be interesting to see where it goes if they have more stuff to show, an attempt to take the
actual "NEXT" step.
The only reason I play it atm is because I couldn't refund it back at launch, and because Space Engineers, Empyrion, X3, X:Rebirth, Heat Signature..nothing is scratching the itch of "I'm a spaceman and I can fly my ship, then land my ship and walk and poke stuff in the eye". Also I like the art and the music, 10/10. But my god the game design choices....
The moment an actual space game comes out, like X4 Foundations, I'll drop it for ages again.