8 Video Games That Changed Due To Fan Backlash

4. No Man’s Sky

I still find myself in a state of disbelief when I look at how far No Man’s Sky has come. When this game dropped, I alongside so many other would be spacefarers felt a systematic failure to launch had taken place. We’d been promised so much; worlds unlike anything we’d ever seen, incorporated multiplayer aspects, a deep and enriching narrative that would make us question life itself.

Yet, that’s not what we got.

Much like your mum saying she’ll show me a good time and then proceeding to refuse wearing the Rich Hutson mask I’ve had made, this wasn’t the experience many wanted.

Complaints were torrential, chastising the title for lying to the public and mis-selling them an experience that it could never provide. That all changed over the course of several months of hard work from Hello Games. With the recent release of the Beyond update, No Man’s Sky is finally able to stand on its own feet again.

The multiplayer expansions alone have changed the feel of the game entirely, but that’s nothing compared to immersive and brilliantly implemented VR, providing scores of new animations unique to playing this way. No Man's Sky went through hell, and some would say rightly so, but now it’s a title worth revisiting more so than ever, all thanks to fans demanding what they paid for.