Five years in the making and it finally is time. Final server wipe, and the "Day One" patch, 1.03, resetting the entire universe today and introducing a huge list of content updates, with only 7 hours to go (3 days for PC) until the world can experience what they've created.
To wander around an alien planet, and to feel like we had discovered it. To explore the universe this small team has created. It's such an ambitious project, overly ambitious, and over these five years how much have they accomplished towards their goal.
A problem I see happening is people expecting the game to be what it is not, or at least not yet. Here is a statement from the lead developer for NMS:
Here is what No Man’s Sky definitely is:
Exploring a universe of pretty procedurally generated worlds, with beautiful creatures
Trading with NPCs
Combat against robots/mechs and cool space battles
Survival/crafting in a universe sized sandbox
An awesome procedural soundtrack from my genuine favourite band
For one small moment, you might feel like you’ve stepped into a sci-fi book cover
That means this maybe isn’t the game you *imagined* from those trailers. If you hoped for things like pvp multiplayer or city building, piloting freighters, or building civilisations… that isn’t what NMS is. Over time it might become some of those things through updates.
For instance, freighters and building bases *are* coming!
At launch though, it’s an infinite procedural sci-fi-space-survival-sandbox unlike anything you have ever played before. If you decide to play it, you’ll see just how closely it plays to those trailers, and to our original vision. It’s a weird game, it’s a niche game and it’s a very very chill game.
This game might not be for everyone, I expect it to be super divisive, but I’m sat here watching playtesters right now who weren’t supposed to be in, but just wanted to play and chill out. I can’t wait for you to experience that for yourselves.
Hopefully this final version on release answers some peoples concerns about the game, concerns from playing early which was unintended. Maybe they'll remain. What is certain though that this is a huge ambitious project for a game, that many fans will love. Hopefully there are no regrets with the team, something they could of done differently, wish they didn't do. I imagine they all are satisfied with what they could do.
Sean Murray @NoMansSky Jul 7
It's happened. No Man's Sky just went gold. I'm so incredibly proud of this tiny team.