roadmap_archaeologist

ten years. well over 30 major updates. still free. at some point we have to stop opening every no man's sky conversation with remember the launch though. yeah, the launch was bad. everybody knows. it became gaming folklore. but if a studio spends a decade shipping giant updates without selling me season passes, there has to be a point where the current game gets judged as the current game. otherwise what exactly are we asking developers to do after they mess up? i do think the redemption story gets romanticized too much sometimes. people act like hello games planned a ten year comeback movie. they did not. they just kept working. that is more interesting anyway.

I bought an early access survival game because the rough edges looked fun. Three years later the main menu still says major systems coming soon. Every update adds furniture, another crafting material and a roadmap image with arrows pointing toward the future. The basic enemy AI still gets stuck on my fence. I am not mad that development takes time. I am mad that unfinished became the permanent identity, like finishing would end the content cycle. At some point stop adding decorative lamps and make version 1.0 mean something.