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> Obviously NMS's original marketing was bonkers and capitalised on saying technically true things in ways to mislead large numbers of people. I don't think th
by swiftcoder 6d ago
> Obviously NMS's original marketing was bonkers and capitalised on saying technically true things in ways to mislead large numbers of people.
I don't think they intentionally misled people. It's not that different to how Spore was marketed during development - a wildly-overconfident dev team promised a living breathing simulated universe, and at some point they had to actually ship the portion they had managed to get working, and most of the complex systems landed on the cutting floor to meet the final deadline.
- Normal_gaussian 5d agoSpore was similarly misleading, yes.
- swiftcoder 5d agoHaving subsequently met a few folks who worked on Spore, I'm pretty sure they fully believed in the early vision they showed off a year or so before release