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I pre-ordered No Man's Sky -_-
Now, they've done WAY more than any of us thought to make things right; but at the time of release, NMS was probably the single most egregious example of false advertising to hit the gaming industry, ever. Or at least within a comparable scope of visibility to the gaming community.
It wasn't just not living up to the hype; it was purchasing a brand new Lamborghini, and receiving 2003 Honda Civic.
And no they didn't just bite off more than they could chew - they knew what they had created; and proceeded to show demos and make promises that amounted to a completely different product. We were scammed.
...and then I guess their conscious got the better of them, cuz rather than disbanding their studio and laughing all the way to the bank like we all expected them to, they spent years at least trying to make look like the product they promised. So, credit where it's due. But still lesson learned: never preorder a game, no matter how good the demos looks, no matter how charming their spokespeople are, no matter how closely the product they're pitching aligns with your specific niche interests: assume it's all complete bullshit until you've seen some gameplay posted by real people.
I didn't fall for the no man's sky hype. The game didn't appeal to me.
But cyberpunk 2077. That one hit hard. After ages of hype, and amazing trailers, I was so for it! I don't get very excited for to many games these days as I'm getting older, but this one ticked all the boxes for me. My disappointment when I realized how buggy and unfinished the game was, alongside everyone who was playing it at launch, exasperated my feelings of being let down and I felt like a sucker. They never really delivered what they originally promised either.
I bought Cyberpunk 2077 for the metro system showed in all the teaser trailers.
There were no remains of it in the playable game.
It got added back in one of the latest updates in late 2024, if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah, after years of updates Cyberpunk is now an amazing game. But it's not at all the game that was hyped up and promised. People don't get it, everyone says it's good now, yeah it's great, that's not the problem. The problem is that it's not what it was supposed to be.
I preordered Spore back in the day. The galactic edition. As a teenager I kept it visible on my dresser as a reminder to never preorder games.
I remember when John Bain was trying to explain this to people constantly, and then he died and all the motherfuckers kept being NPCs and gobbling up the bullshit
Yea, Hello Games, and No Man's Sky burned me so bad. I essentially had dreams about being Han solo, smuggling cargo from system to system, for months.
Then I got the game after pre-ordering and was dumbstruck at how..... Not anything they promised it was. I mean, the game was HUGE, but aside from that?
Ive heard they fixed it, but I never checked back in after playing for a few weeks. My 9 year old likes to play it though. It came out not long after he had as born hahaha.
After the turn around they made with NMS, I’m actually looking forward to their fantasy game. I was already on the “don’t preorder stuff” squad when NMS came out but I still shared the disappointment that everyone who bought it felt.
Yea at this point, they've owned it and put in the effort to correct it that I wouldn't be opposed to buying another one of their games.... just... after it's been released for a month or two :P