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Agreed. I'm surprised they release unpaid updates as opposed to paid DLCs. Wonder how they manage.

by mwerty 3y ago

sjackso 3y ago
The timing and text of this announcement certainly suggest that they've been gearing up to be a launch title on Apple's headset. Which makes me wonder if Apple's been funding development, perhaps for some time.
- gjsman-1000 3y ago
  Could be... Great news for the dozens of Mac gamers. If Apple's headset is a success(?) and games want to support their headset, adding Mac support will be very easy to justify.
  - smoldesu 3y ago
    It would also not be surprising if this was another "Tomb Raider" moment, though. Bringing No Man's Sky to Mac required a Metal rewrite, and Hello Games had probably already finished porting to ARM for the Switch version of the game. It's still a hard sell unless you're a studio with nothing to lose like Sean's team or Capcom.
automatic6131 3y ago
>I'm surprised they release unpaid updates as opposed to paid DLCs From what I hear, from someone who knows someone who works at Hello Games, is that they've hired people to work on "the next game project", but NMS keeps selling, so they keep putting out big updates, because every time they do that, more people buy the game.
- reaperducer 3y ago
  they keep putting out big updates, because every time they do that, more people buy the game. Your friend of a friend must be mistaken. We've been assured hundreds of times over by experts on HN that putting out quality software will lead to bankruptcy. The only correct way to success is to build a low-grade MVP, then charge a monthly subscription, then sell the user's personal data and "telemetry." Surely, there can't be another way?
  - loeg 3y ago
    Do you remember how No Man's Sky was marketed and launched? I do.
    - uMeanTest 3y ago
      Same as everyone else’s now long defunct app was marketed in the midst of a hype bubble. Marketers gonna market. Difference is the NMS team appears to have an offering people wanted versus Bear Clone #875 and web UI POC skewed to highlight some banal metric for $99/mo per team member #1,773,958

Agreed. I'm surprised they release unpaid updates as opposed to paid DLCs. Wonder how they manage.

by mwerty 3y ago

Agreed. I'm surprised they release unpaid updates as opposed to paid DLCs. Wonder how they manage.

The timing and text of this announcement certainly suggest that they've been gearing up to be a launch title on Apple's headset. Which makes me wonder if Apple's been funding development, perhaps for some time.

gjsman-1000 3y ago
Could be... Great news for the dozens of Mac gamers. If Apple's headset is a success(?) and games want to support their headset, adding Mac support will be very easy to justify.
- smoldesu 3y ago
  It would also not be surprising if this was another "Tomb Raider" moment, though. Bringing No Man's Sky to Mac required a Metal rewrite, and Hello Games had probably already finished porting to ARM for the Switch version of the game. It's still a hard sell unless you're a studio with nothing to lose like Sean's team or Capcom.

automatic6131 3y ago

>I'm surprised they release unpaid updates as opposed to paid DLCs From what I hear, from someone who knows someone who works at Hello Games, is that they've hired people to work on "the next game project", but NMS keeps selling, so they keep putting out big updates, because every time they do that, more people buy the game.

reaperducer 3y ago
they keep putting out big updates, because every time they do that, more people buy the game. Your friend of a friend must be mistaken. We've been assured hundreds of times over by experts on HN that putting out quality software will lead to bankruptcy. The only correct way to success is to build a low-grade MVP, then charge a monthly subscription, then sell the user's personal data and "telemetry." Surely, there can't be another way?
- loeg 3y ago
  Do you remember how No Man's Sky was marketed and launched? I do.
  - uMeanTest 3y ago
    Same as everyone else’s now long defunct app was marketed in the midst of a hype bubble. Marketers gonna market. Difference is the NMS team appears to have an offering people wanted versus Bear Clone #875 and web UI POC skewed to highlight some banal metric for $99/mo per team member #1,773,958