10 Worst Video Game Downgrades That Pissed Off EVERYONE
7. No Man's Sky
No Man's Sky is a great game... today.
Players can free their inner Han Solo by flying a starship across a vast, procedurally-generated universe, stopping of at various lush, diverse planets along the way.
It is almost exactly what Hello Games had promised when the game was first announced back in 2013.
The 2016 launch version, however, caused irreparable damage to both the game itself and the studio from whence it came.
With paired back visuals, game breaking bugs, players finding themselves stranded on random planets and content that was promised not making the final version, No Man's Sky left a very sour taste in the collective mouth of day-one adopters.
A beautifully realised, fully populated, resource-abundant and a mind-bogglingly massive universe to explore is what we were promised; the empty vacuum of space with nothing to actually do within it is what we got.
As Star Wars Battlefront II will tell you (if it was sentient and had a mouth), once you piss off a gamer, it is extremely difficult to win them back regardless of the work you put in to correct your mistakes.
Hello Games knew they'd gotten it wrong, and did eventually right the ship.
For many, however, it was much too little way too late.