No Man’s Sky, unbelievably, launched a decade in the past on ninth August 2016. Although it was met with combined opinions on the time, developer Howdy Video games persevered and produced over thirty main updates for the sport, remodeling it into a formidable expertise which you could play on each Change and Change 2.
To have a good time the milestone, Howdy Video games’ founder and managing director Sean Murray has supplied an open letter to followers to thank them for the help over time. In it, he confirmed that though “tens of tens of millions” of travellers have embarked upon journeys throughout the galaxies, lower than 1% of the accessible planets have been explored. Mad.
This is a take a look at Sean’s letter in full:
Howdy!
I really feel surprisingly emotional right now. Ten years in the past, on ninth August 2016, travellers throughout the universe set foot on their first alien planet in No Man’s Sky.
Maybe you have been there ten years in the past, or perhaps you joined later. It’s very cool to me that throughout the universe, different Travellers have woken up on numerous different planets, gentle years aside from one another. They took their first steps on their first planet and introduced a brand new unexplored universe into existence collectively.
Since then tens of millions of gamers have made No Man’s Sky their dwelling, created insane bases, constructed communities, made buddies, and constructed actually inventive customized ships.
For any recreation to achieve its ten-year milestone is spectacular and I believe that’s very true for No Man’s Sky. It’s actually a testomony to the eagerness of the workforce right here and of the gamers for the sport, that this 12 months we’ve seen our highest participant numbers since launch, and gained a TGA and BAFTA for greatest evolving recreation.
Over the past decade, the No Man’s Sky gamers have joined us in one other sort of journey as we grew, expanded and deepened what No Man’s Sky might be. With now 40 main updates, all free, we have now expanded our sandbox universe with base-building, exocraft, settlements, mechs, pets, residing ships, expeditions and rebuilt the universe a number of occasions over. Help for Change, XBox, VR, PSVR, Change 2, PS5, XBX and extra has been added alongside the best way. Actually No Man’s Sky is supported on about as many platforms as there are workforce members!
It turned a little bit of a meme on the time, me holding up the gold grasp disc of No Man’s Sky however I’m proud to say that the general public in that picture are nonetheless at Howdy. The No Man’s Sky workforce has advanced over that interval in fact, however it isn’t actually that a lot larger.
Since then tens of tens of millions of Travellers have spent tons of of tens of millions of hours exploring and sharing their discoveries and the universe is extra vibrant now than it ever has been. Voyagers launched final 12 months noticed extra gamers than we’ve had since launch… and nonetheless, all these years later gamers have explored lower than 1% of the planets in No Man’s Sky.
In an identical method our small workforce feels we have now so much left to discover in what No Man’s Sky may be. Within the background we’re busy cooking on our subsequent recreation Gentle No Hearth, and large issues for the way forward for No Man’s Sky, with the tease of our upcoming replace titled “COSMOS”. Extra will comply with!
I think about myself exceedingly fortunate to work with the folks I do, on a recreation I like with one of many nicest communities in video video games. In case you’re studying this, then it’s as a result of you’ve got proven us a kindness over that interval. Large or small that helps Howdy Video games do what we do. For that I’m really grateful.
Thanks a lot,
Sean
The way in which through which No Man’s Sky has managed to reverse its fortunes is solely chic, and we won’t wait to see what the workforce manages to cook dinner up sooner or later.
Within the meantime, in the event you’re on the fence about it, we awarded the Change 2 model a 9/10 and referred to as it an “virtually excellent port of an almighty behemoth of a recreation”