Hello Games and No Man’s Sky have been exceptional at providing so many lovely content updates since launch. And they’ve updated so many visual components as well…but mainly relegated to improving and adding to assets that already exist in the game. Flora, Fauna, Lasers, VFX, space whales etc. etc.

But relatively few of the “beauty” updates with the notable exceptions of NEXT and (edit) ORIGINS. have touched on improving terrain creation.

I can’t help but think that these kind of fundamental updates are being avoided, as to not hurt the base building components of the game.

Do you feel this has become a log jam that is preventing NMS from evolving more complex and dynamic terrain features?

Would you be willing to lose your bases for them to update these features?

Is there a solution that could be implemented to let them keep growing fundamental changes without blowing away all the bases?

Let me know what you think.

5 years of massive free updates, each bettering the previous, and zero paid DLC or microtransaction. I don’t understand how Hello games are profitable with this model and I can only surmise that this model has been conceived in order to prove themselves from the brutal launch of NMS (in which I believe they’ve already achieved).

Often times I find myself feeling bad for Hello games. I buy merch from their online store just as a way to support them. Sometimes I want to reach out to them and say “Guys, you’ve given us so much now. I want you guys to take care of yourselves too. For god sake, charge me for something!!”