# No Man's Sky - First star to the right, and straight on till morning

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**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** video-games-e-games
**Created:** [July 12, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701 "2016-07-12T01:16:17Z")
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### Author: ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-mans-sky-first-star-to-the-right-and-straight-on-till-morning/759701/561 "2016-11-01T20:34:08Z")

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The contradiction is that you have repeatedly railed against developers for duping consumers into paying money for games in advance (because they are getting free money to deliver products that may or may not ever delivered), and have railed against consumers for paying money for games in advance (because they are encouraging a broken system).

Look at your very first post in this thread:

> [@SenorBeef](#):
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> This game has reached ridiculous levels of hype. It’s made by a studio that’s only made some shitty movie tie in games, promising some vague but revolutionary gameplay, and it’s reached Spore levels of hype. I think there’s a very high chance this results in huge disappointment.

But with Star Citizen, you’ve pretty consistently defended it as nobly ambitious. Here’s your first post in the Star Citizen thread:

> [@Star Citizen is the Future of PC Gaming, and it \[was\] Free to Play this week (Edit: No Longer Free)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-citizen-is-the-future-of-pc-gaming-and-it-was-free-to-play-this-week-edit-no-longer-free/734528/84):
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> I think there’s a circle jerk against this game in a lot of the gaming media because it’s so ambitious and so obviously bucks the trends of gaming through rehashing, unambitious development, short turnaround games pumping out iterative franchises, dumbing down, consolization, etc.

So why the disconnect? There’s no way in hell anybody could have accused NMS of being unambitious, iterative, or of rehashing tired tropes. Why does Star Citizen get a pass for ambition but NMS didn’t?

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