10 Video Game Rewards That Were Profoundly Insulting

Calling No Man's Sky's original release a disappointment would be one of gaming's biggest understatements. Compared to what developer Hello Games had shown prior to release, the game was threadbare. A whole universe with stationary NPCs, grind-heavy progression, and barely any variety.

But nothing stung more than if you actually bothered to make it to center of the known universe - the game's ultimate main objective. After hours and hours of exploring, harvesting and crafting just to move from star to star, inching your way inward, all to find...

Nothing.

Well, not nothing at all, but it may as well be. In the centre of the universe you find a portal. A portal that transports you to... the edge of another, new universe. Which is basically the same as the old one. And the same main objective to reach the centre.

Your reward is an infinitely looping game.

Introduced in later updates, you could follow the "Atlas Path", an alternate route to an alternate ending, in which case your character then states (via text) that "a great sense of fulfilment washes over me."

It's like... reverse manufactured consent for wasting hours of your life??