Clownmug wrote: ↑Fri, 26. Jun 20, 21:58
spankahontis wrote: ↑Fri, 26. Jun 20, 21:02
Clownmug wrote: ↑Wed, 24. Jun 20, 14:16
Hello Games is making everyone else look bad then since they added VR to No Man's Sky in their regular updates. Then a few months later had an update just to add an in-game music synthesizer...
No Man's Sky was thee most hyped game in news media, no game in history received as much press from game magazines, even beyond games media.
Sadly, Egosoft can only wish for that sort of coverage, which Rebirth VR didn't get a crumb of. Maybe it would of made more money if it had more media coverage? But that requires allot of money to invest in marketing.
Sean Murray was handed everything, all that free media that he didn't deserve.
Good marketing doesn't require a lot of investment, it just requires more effort than a few web ads, livestreaming a couple videos, and showing up at Gamescom every few years. Also having marketable features like VR and multiplayer helps. Just vaguely insinuating they had multiplayer, even though they didn't at the time, was enough to sell No Man's Sky to a lot of people.
It was WAY more than just bullshitting about multi-player!
Sean Murray lied about something like 70+ features of the game and people started building up all these awesome features and that is what built momentum.
That side of his momentum was free because the Space Sim community were hyping this up like a virus spreading.
Free advertising being spread by those that heard Murray's hype.
But that couldn't of happened without the dozens of interviews he conducted to games magazines.
He even managed to get on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he was THAT popular at the time. He hit mainstream audiences even beyond gaming markets, Sure he had a marketing firm selling the concept of his games to the target audiences but no market firm could of prepared for the hype that No Mans Sky got.
This 'nobody' games company got more publicity than the top AAA Games of the time.
One of the most hyped games in video game history. I've heard it got more coverage all-round than Star Citizen?
Testament to a lie getting halfway across the world before the truth has time to put it's pants on.