People complained about those things because the makers of No Man's Sky repeatedly said untrue or misleading things about what content and features would be in

People complained about those things because the makers of No Man's Sky repeatedly said untrue or misleading things about what content and features would be in the game -- things that we now know they must have known were false at the time (e.g. the talk of how other games cheat by using skyboxes while No Man's Sky simulates physics). Here is a Reddit post that covers in great detail the claims made by No Man Sky's maker about the game's content, as compared to reality on launch: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no_mans_sky_we_were_sold_on_a_big_list/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/4y1h9i/wheres_the_no... https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/17/broken-promises-of-no-mans-sky/ https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/17/broken-promises-... It may be that the game is perfectly fun for people as launched, but that's separate from the concern that the game's maker misrepresented it.