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Report: No Man’s Sky Review Copies Might Not Be Going Out Prior to Launch


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According to review aggregator Open Critic, No Man’s Sky review copies may not be going out until launch next week.

 

In their first in a series of tweets, Open Critic said several publications have told them that they aren’t receiving review copies ahead of No Man’s Sky’s August 9 release date:

 

PSA: Several publications, incl some large ones, have reported to us that they won’t be receiving No Man’s Sky review copies prior to launch

 

In some follow-up tweets, Open Critic clarified that this only applies to pre-release review copies, and it’s possible early copies could still go out, they just haven’t heard anything to the contrary yet:

 

Clarifying three points:

 

1) There will be review copies for No Man’s Sky. Previous tweet specifically about advanced copies (pre-launch)

2) There is no statistical basis for this being a bad sign. DOOM and other titles also didn’t issue advanced copies.

3) There COULD be advanced copies… Just many of our sources reported they weren’t getting them. None have reported to us they have.

Lesson for us: don’t try to use Twitter to convey nuanced info. Please read original tweet carefully before rushing to “no review copies”

 

If review copies of No Man’s Sky truly aren’t being sent out early, it’s likely in an attempt to prevent spoilers. Last week, Hello Games’ Sean Murray said, “We’ve spent years filling No Man’s Sky with surprises. You’ve spent years waiting. Please don’t spoil it for yourself :(. Take a break from reading about it, and picking vids apart. You can experience for yourself so soon.”

 

 

 

Read more at http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2016/08/01/report-no-mans-sky-review-copies-might-not-going-prior-launch/#6RmRtoFAZfVrksiE.99

 

 

This doesn't mean no reviews, it just means not reviews until Launch. 

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Remember when Assassin's Creed Unity did this? Remember how well that turned out?

This, and the fact that Sean Murray is essentially saying "please don't look at the reviews!!11!!" and the fact the leaked screenshots show an alarming lack of variety have me very interested to see how mediocre this game really is in comparison to how much it's being hyped up.

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Remember when Assassin's Creed Unity did this? Remember how well that turned out?

This, and the fact that Sean Murray is essentially saying "please don't look at the reviews!!11!!" and the fact the leaked screenshots show an alarming lack of variety have me very interested to see how mediocre this game really is in comparison to how much it's being hyped up.

 

I don't think its mediocre but the hype was too much for this game. I just checked the First Plat of this game review. The game graphically is pretty poor but he says that game is pretty good. You are also right, there are some bugs in the game. The guy did some videos on them. 

 

 

Does it even make sense now?

Pretty much everyone already read/watched everything about the game from the 1300$ guy, I don't think spoilers matter much now

 

I guess its about sales. Remember, Sony put a lot of money into this game so I doubt they want people asking for a refund. 

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Well, many people cancelled their pre-orders after seeing the game so wouldn't bringing early copies be more desirable?

So those who still want the game can feel special? =D

 

Lol, you can't feel special now that we know whats at the center of the universe. 

 

At least we are here to console them in their time of need: 

 

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In this age of day one patches, should we really be so concerned about the bugs this guy is reporting?

 

I'm avoiding his coverage and any other so that I can have my own fresh reactions when I actually play.

 

Also, re the OP: the tweet clarified that there may be review copies of the final build so we may still get reviews before launch.

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I never bought into all the hype surrounding this game, and decisions like that are only making me feel stronger about my feelings towards it. Sure, just because reviewers don't get hands on with the game before launch doesn't mean it's necessarily going to be bad (a good example of this is the new Doom), but either way, this industry has taught us to be sceptical of things like this, and that's for a very good reason. We've been lied to time and time again by developers and publishers who know what the game is really like, but spin the game into something it's not in an effort to gain more sales.

 

For those who have the game pre-ordered, I'd recommend you think again about your decision. There's no reason to take such a risk. Just wait for the reviews! If the game actually turns out to be what you wanted, then you can buy it. It's crazy to me how many people will pre-order a game just because it rewards you with a costume, gun skin or some other insignificant pre-order incentive. Fat load of good that will do you if the game is crap. When will we as consumers learn?

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Waiting for reviews makes absolutly no sense !   Because there will be extremly hype reviews and extremly bad reviews same time .... because that game just dont appeal to everyone .  Like walking sim and other exploration games .

 

I will not cancle pre order , because i wait for a game like this since Spore ..... and NMS is first in this direction , i dont care about all the hate and all the hype ! i buy a game because im really interested in it ..  

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In a world where game editors are complete idiots, with zero gaming history knowledge or experience, reviews mean nothing. Just look at IGN reviewing Hyper Light Drifter and saying it's story is bad because the editor was too stupid to understand it's abstract. What I am waiting for are gameplay videos, streams, and players' opinions. And yes, people who preorder a game after seeing 30 minutes of gameplay at a conference are the reason why companies like Ubisoft still exist (Unity, Brotherhood, the last Prince of Persia, Watch Dogs anyone?).

 

The only game I will be preordering is Nier: Automata, simply because I absolutely loved the first one and I'm going to get the collector's edition even if the game turns out to be bad.

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Waiting for reviews makes absolutly no sense !   Because there will be extremly hype reviews and extremly bad reviews same time .... because that game just dont appeal to everyone .  Like walking sim and other exploration games .

With this kind of game, reviews are going to be biased as fck.

Either hype reviews or hate reviews.

 

Not if you find game reviewers you trust. It doesn't have to be from the big sites, just from someone who has similar interests to you in games. And if you really don't trust anyone when it comes to reviews, you can just wait until the game is available to all so you can check out gameplay for yourself and see if it appeals to you. Again, there's no reason to put money down blindly. There's no harm in waiting.

 

I will not cancle pre order , because i wait for a game like this since Spore ..... and NMS is first in this direction , i dont care about all the hate and all the hype ! i buy a game because im really interested in it ..  

 

You know Spore was another game hyped to hell and it turned out to be total garbage, right? Not a very good example.  :P Also you're basing your interest on the game from carefully constructed marketing material by Sony and Hello Games. Let us remember Aliens: Colonial Marines to see what a good idea that was. I'm jut trying to temper peoples expectations here. No Man's Sky is from a small studio who's previous experience includes the Joe Danger games, and that's it. You don't go from making games like that to some revolutionary masterpiece like some people think it's gonna be. It would be like if Naughty Dog went from Crash Bandicoot straight to The Last of Us. That just doesn't happen.

 

I'm not telling you to cancel your pre-order, but if the game isn't what you were expecting it to be, then you only have yourself to blame.

 

But what if it's absolutely brilliant costume?!

What if it makes cutest loli even cuter? :awesome:

 

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Okay, okay! I'll make an exception for Marie-chan.  <3  xD

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You know Spore was another game hyped to hell and it turned out to be total garbage, right? Not a very good example.

 

That makes it even better for me , because i was huge fan of Spore ! and again i didnt care about hype or hate of spore , i just enjoyed it :)

 

But like you said "reviewer you trust" .... maybe thats problem ... i dont trust most reviews anymore .   Many write what ppl want to hear and not what they think ... and so i bought total crap games because of good reviews.

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Why pre-order anyway? Does it give you a bonus that's worthwhile? 

I think most people pre-order for the psychological feeling of fooling your mind that you already own the game, giving you a small sense of false satisfaction. Some people pre-order games a year or more in advance. That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard of. If you want the pre-order bonus, just pre-order the day before? Why give your money to someone else for a year without getting any interest?

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As has been explained before, the review copies have been held off because the game on disc is not what the gamers will experience - ever since going gold they've been working on the update that just went live, fixing loads of stuff and adding more content. That, and the development team does not care for people playing the game early because they "are reviewers". This game is meant to be explored for yourself, not spoiled by others.

 

Also, forget Unity. DOOM held off its review copies and that game turned out to be an amazing game and the best DOOM in ages, possibly ever.

 

Why pre-order anyway? Does it give you a bonus that's worthwhile? 

I think most people pre-order for the psychological feeling of fooling your mind that you already own the game, giving you a small sense of false satisfaction. Some people pre-order games a year or more in advance. That is the weirdest thing I've ever heard of. If you want the pre-order bonus, just pre-order the day before? Why give your money to someone else for a year without getting any interest?

 

Limited amount of such bonuses?

 

From what I can tell, 99% of pre-order bonuses are digital, so there's an infinite quantity. The other 1% has never been sold out whenever I pre-ordered it.

 

99% are digital? I'd love to see your source for that because I don't believe it for a second.

 

Personally, I've pre-ordered the limited edition, you know, the one with actual physical extra's (I don't care for digital extra's enough to pre-order, my only digital pre-order ever was Day Of The Tentacle and that had a pre-order sale). This limited editionhas been sold out in my country for months. The only place I can find that still has a few left (bottom link) is a toy store that doesn't specialise in gaming and tries to sell the game for €100 instead of €80 like the rest, so either they ran out and had to be creative to buy some more stock, or they were just stupid and didn't sell everything because their starting price was too high. The store's counterpart (Intertoys) doesn't even have the limited edition, or at least not any more.

https://www.nedgame.nl/playstation-4/no-man-s-sky--limited-edition-/3775113724/

https://www.gamemania.nl/games/playstation-4/no-mans-sky-limited-edition

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/no-man-s-sky-limited-edition-ps4/9200000056861735

http://www.bartsmit.com/nl/bsnl/ps4-no-man-s-sky-limited-edition?previousSearchTerm=no%20man%27s%20sky

("uitverkocht" means "sold out", "niet meer beschikbaar" means "not available any more")

 

For the record: with only a bare few exceptions, I only pre-order collector's editions for the physical extra's, and the game store I pre-order at doesn't make me pay for it until the actual release date (save for the first €5 to lock down my pre-order), so all your arguments do not work for the way I do my pre-orders. Can't say anything about people pre-ordering digital so long in advance because I don't have experience with it myself, but I reckon that pre-ordering digital has the added benefit of being able to download most of it in advance and start playing the second it goes live. As you say, that means you can just pre-order a day in advance though, but as I've said I doubt that there's such a large digital percentage of pre-orders and I doubt that all digital pre-orders are made months in advance.

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Personally, I've pre-ordered the limited edition, you know, the one with actual physical extra's (I don't care for digital extra's enough to pre-order, my only digital pre-order ever was Day Of The Tentacle and that had a pre-order sale). This limited editionhas been sold out in my country for months. The only place I can find that still has a few left (bottom link) is a toy store that doesn't specialise in gaming and tries to sell the game for €100 instead of €80 like the rest, so either they ran out and had to be creative to buy some more stock, or they were just stupid and didn't sell everything because their starting price was too high. The store's counterpart (Intertoys) doesn't even have the limited edition, or at least not any more.

https://www.nedgame.nl/playstation-4/no-man-s-sky--limited-edition-/3775113724/

https://www.gamemania.nl/games/playstation-4/no-mans-sky-limited-edition

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/no-man-s-sky-limited-edition-ps4/9200000056861735

http://www.bartsmit.com/nl/bsnl/ps4-no-man-s-sky-limited-edition?previousSearchTerm=no%20man%27s%20sky

("uitverkocht" means "sold out", "niet meer beschikbaar" means "not available any more")

 

For the record: with only a bare few exceptions, I only pre-order collector's editions for the physical extra's, and the game store I pre-order at doesn't make me pay for it until the actual release date (save for the first €5 to lock down my pre-order), so all your arguments do not work for the way I do my pre-orders. Can't say anything about people pre-ordering digital so long in advance because I don't have experience with it myself, but I reckon that pre-ordering digital has the added benefit of being able to download most of it in advance and start playing the second it goes live. As you say, that means you can just pre-order a day in advance though, but as I've said I doubt that there's such a large digital percentage of pre-orders and I doubt that all digital pre-orders are made months in advance.

I fully understand pre-ordering limited editions. I'm talking about pre-ordering just the regular game, which gives you either nothing, or just some goofy digital costume or whatever. Limited Editions falls under an entirely different category, in my opinion. That's just reserving one of the limited ones in circulation. Millions of people pre-order games that have limitless quantities, like putting down $10 on a game at Gamestop which MIGHT come out in 2035, for no reason other than losing money.

And it's no wonder Bart Smit is sold out. That store was always kind of behind as opposed to Intertoys, etc, back when I was young.

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I fully understand pre-ordering limited editions. I'm talking about pre-ordering just the regular game, which gives you either nothing, or just some goofy digital costume or whatever. Limited Editions falls under an entirely different category, in my opinion. That's just reserving one of the limited ones in circulation. Millions of people pre-order games that have limitless quantities, like putting down $10 on a game at Gamestop which MIGHT come out in 2035, for no reason other than losing money.

And it's no wonder Bart Smit is sold out. That store was always kind of behind as opposed to Intertoys, etc, back when I was young.

Bart Smit and Intertoys are actually under the same mother corporation, don't know if that was the case back in the day. Intertoys didn't even get the LE, just the normal edition. Both aren't gaming stores though and Bart Smit is on a lot of stuff still behind Intertoys. :)

Yes with normal editions the only bonuses are digital and it happens only a select few times that the normal edition is sold out (GTA V for instance). I can't speak for people pre-ordering the normal edition because I've only done that with pre-order sales but I'm sure they've got reasons and it's probably not (just) the pre-order bonus.

Also, on the original topic, turns out people who had realistic expectations about the game are loving it just fine, most reviewers enjoy it as well. As I said, the devs probably just wanted the fans to be the first to experience it without being told stuff by reviewers.

It's a very love it or hate it game. Due to the whole randomness it can even affect players from one end suddenly falling in the other. I heard from one person who has only seen empty planets so far, while for me even the three empty planets (out of nine) I found were nothing alike - one was a flat desert which I left immediately, one was a watery mountainous place and one looked like a rocky desert when I touched down but turned out to have a lot of plant life in select locations and a HUGE cavern system underground. Makes me wonder if I may have found more on that first one...

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It's a very love it or hate it game. Due to the whole randomness it can even affect players from one end suddenly falling in the other. I heard from one person who has only seen empty planets so far, while for me even the three empty planets (out of nine) I found were nothing alike - one was a flat desert which I left immediately, one was a watery mountainous place and one looked like a rocky desert when I touched down but turned out to have a lot of plant life in select locations and a HUGE cavern system underground. Makes me wonder if I may have found more on that first one...

Empty planet meaning without flora and fauna or empty as not generated? =D

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Empty planet meaning without flora and fauna or empty as not generated? =D

They said desert so I'm guessing without anything. These planets are so damn diverse though... I landed on what I thought was an empty rock wasteland but when I was flying around looking for stations/artifacts I suddenly found myself among huge plants... Then later on I realise the whole planet is actually filled with gigantic caverns.
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