I agree that everyone has things they would love to see in NMS. Mine is actual humanoid enemies. The game is also very easy as games go, but that hardly means it lacks depth.

The frigate missions read like synopsis shorts of star trek episodes and get my brain imagining all sorts of wild imagery of the adventure my frigate crews embarked on.

The lore is actually pretty in depth and fleshy when you really start reading all of the artifact descriptions and looking into the lore of the game.

You can see NPC’s mining in space, can literally roll up on your frigates while they are out on missions. It would be cool to see them actually doing things, but that’s what a little imagination is for.

You can be a pirate, a fleet captain, an overseer of a town where you can see NPC’s running about with thought bubbles that flesh out what they are up to (I feel like dying on the hill that you don’t see them actually doing anything is just saying you lack imagination and want the game to think for you), a bounty hunter, a worker for your local space station, a member of the Anomaly. The list goes on.

Yes, I get that the stuff to do becomes repetitive, but honestly what game doesn’t.

Personally there is no game like No mans sky or has the amount of stuff to do that NMS provides in the way that it does. With more updates to come and no end in sight with continuous new stuff to do, it just seems like people are creating an illusion that the game is shallow to convince themselves it’s not worth playing.

Rant over.

I’ve been with the game since day one. It’s given me an absurd number of hours of enjoyment and I am grateful for all the relief and escape it provided over the years — certainly more than any other game I’ve ever played.

Over the summer I reached the game’s building limit and since then I’ve been building and deleting so I can build more. I’ve had to bulldoze some of my favorite creations to make space for new work on new worlds.

Now, I think I’ve reached my own limit and it is time to move on. I wish everyone the best — it’s an amazing game and has been for a very long time. I might pop back for an hour or two if there are further updates, and if Hello Games ever decides to move to DLC, I’ll buy it sight unseen and jump back in — they’ve earned that.