This game is going free???

[MeltedLemonade]

I fear for this game Is it just temporary? It said it was going free in the patch notes

[Nettle]

The free weekend ended yesterday.

[Atman]

Don't even dream about it

[Dr.Abscondus]

Reading comprehension. It's a thing.

[wkitty42]

the wording was more like "free demo period" which lasted over the weekend... now you have to wait for the demo license to expire and then you can purchase it...

[UNBREAKABLE]

Tbf the lady in the trailer just said the game was free for everyone and didn't specify a time frame or context. Easy impression to get if you didn't read the news page itself.

[Sanquin]

So to put it simply. It was a kind of ad campaign where they let people play for free for a weekend in the hopes that it would entice more players to buy the game. I don't blame them. Heck it's a great way to advertise a game imo. Just let them play it for a bit. In the past demos were VERY common. But in the end that's all it was.

[Traltwin]

You really need to read...
https://www.nomanssky.com/omega-update/
Scroll down to the PLAY FOR FREE part...

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by wkitty42:

the wording was more like "free demo period" which lasted over the weekend... now you have to wait for the demo license to expire and then you can purchase it...

You can "remove this product from my account" and purchase it "for real" immediately.

[+VLFBERHT+]

Originally posted by Atman:

Don't even dream about it :claugh: :tgrin: :cgrazz:

I'm not so confident in your assertion there, IF...

... if when Hello Games makes maybe, like about $350,000,000+ from Light No Fire ! ... hmmm, i wonder... could they still afford to update NMS, with vigor and passion, expansive new content and features, then allow No Mans Sky to go Free-to-Play ?

Man, i tell you what, speaking for myself ... if i got paid over a 1/3 of a billion dollars, i'd be SUPER_Vigorous and Passionate in EVERYTHING I DO !! LoL

P.s. THat's not to say Hello Games isn't vigorous and passionate to begin with ;)

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by +VLFBERHT+:

Originally posted by Atman:

Don't even dream about it :claugh: :tgrin: :cgrazz:

I not so confident in your assertion there, IF...

... if when Hello Games makes maybe, like about $350,000,000+ from Light No Fire ! ... hmmm, i wonder... could they still afford to update, with vigor and passion, expansive new content and features, then allow No Mans Sky to go Free-to-Play ?

Man, i tell you what, speaking for myself ... if i got paid over a 1/3 of a billion dollars, i'd be SUPER_Vigorous and Passionate in EVERYTHING I DO !! LoL

You underestimate the power of greed.

They're still selling No Man's Sky. It's still making money; no reason to stop selling it.
Anyone who wants it to be free hasn't thought it through... once it's free, there's no profit in maintaining it, let alone improving it or adding content. If they decide to make it free, it'll be because they're not going to work on it any more, ever again... and the Discovery Services servers will die, because there will be no money to be made by keeping them up.

[+VLFBERHT+]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Originally posted by +VLFBERHT+:

I not so confident in your assertion there, IF...

... if when Hello Games makes maybe, like about $350,000,000+ from Light No Fire ! ... hmmm, i wonder... could they still afford to update, with vigor and passion, expansive new content and features, then allow No Mans Sky to go Free-to-Play ?

Man, i tell you what, speaking for myself ... if i got paid over a 1/3 of a billion dollars, i'd be SUPER_Vigorous and Passionate in EVERYTHING I DO !! LoL

You underestimate the power of greed.

They're still selling No Man's Sky. It's still making money; no reason to stop selling it.
Anyone who wants it to be free hasn't thought it through... once it's free, there's no profit in maintaining it, let alone improving it or adding content. If they decide to make it free, it'll be because they're not going to work on it any more, ever again... and the Discovery Services servers will die, because there will be no money to be made by keeping them up.

"You underestimate the power of greed."

And you underestimate the power of Integrity...

I would have judged them as "greedy" if they had taken the money {$48 million} and run in 2016...

That's not to say "a career with a paycheck" was not a motivator for them to stick with it... In all likelihood, had they just taken the money and abandoned NMS, getting another job in the industry for any of them, well Lets be frank, had they done that, they would have all already been labeled as pariahs and if they showed up to another gig with NMS on their resume, they most likely would get dumped on reputation alone.

However, here are couple articles that might further the opinion that NMS will continue in one form or another... but i suspect when they flip the LNF switch, being as how small of a team they have continued to be, it might be possible NMS updates [and stuff] might slow...

https://www.polygon.com/gaming/23380605/no-mans-sky-six-year-anniversary-sean-murray-interview

https://www.techspot.com/news/101915-hello-games-finally-calling-no-man-sky-complete.html

As for the "free-to-play" theory... my point was, if they have a smashing success with Light No Fire and make MEGA bucks, maybe they just hire a few upstart-talents to take over their continued development "the NMS journey continues" into the future.

Heck, maybe they do FTP_NMS and include a timed demo of LNF with each copy... then call it "Free Advertising" ;)

[Asmosis]

That's possible.

From what we've seen in the LNF trailer though, the majority of game mechanics are shared with NMS, so there's a good possibility improvements (but not necessarily new content) will be applied to both games e.g. better pet riding mechanics, FPS gameplay etc.

As for the Omega trailer, it was pretty ambiguous (on purpose) to draw people to the steam page, but once there it was crystal clear it was just the weekend. The various clickbait "free game" new articles that get listed on google homepage don't help though.

[Guyver8]

Lol... there's even a rumor MS has shown some interest in buying HG
if true, free-2-play is the least of anyone's worries

[Voltarc]

Really most of the big games today are free were you pay for extra stuff anyway. They could probably make more money if it was free and selling add on content. But they originally sold this game for a lot of money, so I am glad they stuck with this game and somehow made all the crazy stuff they promised real without a bunch of extra paywalls. Maybe if they decide to start from scratch and make NMS2 then they could offer this game free with a way to cross over to the new version?

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by Guyver8:

Lol... there's even a rumor MS has shown some interest in buying HG

Activision-Blizzard was on the same list...