No Man's Sky director Sean Murray doesn't rule out paid DLC - but wants to remain free

NO MAN'S SKY reviews on PS4 and PC have been overwhelmingly positive, and while updates will remain free for now, Sean Murray hasn't ruled out paid DLC if the game requires it in the future.

[-Foxtrot]

I'm sorry but there's no chance in hell I would pay more for this game.

Building, better inventory, better item management, more friendly interface, more enemies, random encounters, more secrets, terraforming, more missions, creating solar systems or planets, build robot companions to help you and so on...that should be free because in my opinion it's what the game is missing.

[Perjoss]

so you're saying that people should work for free? lets say they implement all the things you listed and they did them quite well, it would quite easily take them a year to do that stuff, so you're saying that 10 or 15 people should work for a year for free? would you work for a year for free?

[YinYangGaming]

For an indie studio their game is going to sell more copies than a lot of AAA games and still other indie devs do free updates for much smaller games, it's about rewarding the fans who bought your product

[-Foxtrot]

No. I didn't say people should work for free, don't twist something someone says into what you want to see.

Considering Minecraft was free and built it's self up slowly before making people pay a small amount and then continued with free updates I don't see how it's a problem.

We've just paid a lot of money for this, a standard full on retail game..there's no way in hell these guys are working for free.

[jwillj2k4]

I think hes saying he doesnt feel it is a 60 dollar game as is, which is why he would not give additional dlc money just to complete the experience.

I gave him a disagree because of 2 reasons. 1) There will still be free dlc which could add the things hes upset about, and 2) I dont know what said premium dlc would be, if it makes the game more like rebel galaxy then im all in.

Once they make the universe a 'living universe' in that there is persistence with alien relationships and a better social infrastructure it will change the game. It could reach G.O.A.T. status. They look into what EVE online does.

[Yi-Long]

Not just 'rewarding fans', but basically supporting your own product, in that it becomes (much) better and also keeps selling.

So no, free updates doesn't mean they would be working for free: They would be improving the product, which will result in more new sales.

[nix]

It is an indie game with 60 dollar tag but i think if we are going to get better systems, it should just be an update and not a DLC. I've played this game almost all my waking hours this weekend, so now I'm kind of done. I've found the black hole and in next few days I'll be taking that. I just hope that it's not a fake one.

[Razzer]

Fine, but you are not describing DLC. You want improvements to existing features. I agree with you. There is much they can improve, but that is a totally different thing than DLC. With DLC, you typically get new experiences, new items, ships, etc.

[-Foxtrot]

New ships and items are basically what you've just said in your first sentence "improvments to exisitng features"

Ships and items are already in the game...why would you want to pay for a new ship? What possible feature for a ship is going to justify paying for it rather then everyother ship already in the game. Most of the things you'll come up with will just be ship upgrades you can craft and would be added for free.

A free update could easily add a space garage where you can modify your ships colours and create ones from scratch.

[Razzer]

@-Foxtrot

Well....it is just like folks who pay money for better cars in Rocket League, isn't it? That is their choice and I don't have a problem with folks having that option. I'm with you....I wouldn't bother. But I'm hoping what Murray says about paid DLC is more like expansions, new quests/adventures, like the paid side quests in Skyrim/Oblivion.

[one2thr]

@Fox

Having the technologies take up inventory slots, is a game play mechanic, it forces the player to decide whether they want to be a fighter or trader. Thus having fighters well equipt to take on space pirates whenever they become an immediate threat, traders would tend to not have that many technoloies installed therefore having enough room to carry more goods but leaving them more vulnerable to being destroyed by pirates.

Thats why I smartened up, and dedicated the first 3 rows of my 48 slot ship for defensive and offensive technologies, and I dedicated only 2 rows for in my maxed exo suit for technologies that pretty much keep me alive a lot longer on extreme planets and whenever I have to farm sentinals.

I also optimized my technologies to get another state boost. To increase my defenses and offenses.

When it comes to carrying goods, my suit is strictly used to carrying items that DO NOT stack, like atlas stones, Gravitino balls, venom sacs, etc. While my ship carries all the stackables, seeing that 1 inventory slot can hold up to 500 stackable items, whereas the exo can only hold 250.

I learned quickly, through trial and error on what to do, how things work, and not hoarding uslesd items.

Mind you, half my playing time was with the pre-order ship that came with only 16 slots, and half of those were occupied with technologies.

I can carry a great amount of goods and take down pirates, so far I destoryed 10 of them in 1 go.

Its a thinking game as well.

[joab777]

Exactly.

[Overload]

"better inventory, better item management, more friendly interface"

This is actually insane. All of this is top notch as it is Destiny's UI, which might be the best of all time.

[-Foxtrot]

It's not that good man. My biggest problem is your ship parts are within your inventory space and waste slots

This is what it should be like...

https://s4.postimg.io/ij4bc...

[Palitera]

Yeah, because it is awesome having to wait half a second to perform any action on your UI...

[Liqu1d]

@Foxtrot The whole point of having your ships upgrades in your inventory is to make you choose between more ship upgrades or more inventory space. Someone who likes trading might want more inventory space so they sacrifice ship upgrades which will make them more vulnerable.

[-Foxtrot]

@Liqu1d

That's a silly excuse

Thrusters on a ship is not something you put in your inventory...they are PART of the ship, they shouldn't need to take up an inventory space.

So if the ship was a Car would it mean 4 wheels would be given to a 4 inventory slots, including the engine and side mirrors...what about the little screen wipers? Of course they wouldn't be included because it's part of the car, unlike items you take in and out of your inventory.

[Razzer]

Nothing wrong with paid DLC as long as it is worth it. If Hello Games offers some expansions then I'll definitely consider buying them. More times than not, DLC isn't worth the money, imo. Witcher 3 being one of the rare examples. Hello Games should follow their model.

[YinYangGaming]

If they add a story mode then I could see that as paid DLC but this is his exact quote to Redbull a few days ago "there will be no paid DLC, just patches."

[Overload]

The lore is the story, I doubt that will change. If anything they will just add more lore.

[YinYangGaming]

Yeah I know there's all the paths etc. I'm just wondering what he means by the quote they'll make paid DLC if it was for a really big feature, might be MP but I'm not sure

[Joey_The_Robot]

He's also said several different things about multiplayer, so I wouldn't take the Redbull interview quote as gospel.

[Palitera]

Yeah, he poses as an small indie dev who makes everything for love of their game, but act like a normal corporate AAA producer: bugs, lies, crashes everywhere.

At least one of these bugs let me fully upgrade my ship easily (when the undertested game is not crashing).

[Aenea]

That's the thing these days, some sites write whole articles about one little sentence, to me he's just covering his ass just in case in a year or later they decide to do a big paid DLC. They want to keep adding to it for free as he has already said, but if he now says all updates will be free people will go again "Sean lied to us!" when they decide to do paid DLC...

It's not a big deal and this whole article is so not necessary...

[NotEvenMyFinalForm]

this game's waaaaaay overpriced already, paid DLC would be a travesty.

[one2thr]

Like how Destiny was first released with the hype of having a compelling story, that later was found out to be not included with the $60 base game, but with paid DLC and having to go on bungies website to read about the other half of the story via grimior cards that you unlocked in game.

And yet people were completely fine with that because it had smooth controls and was made by a much larger already known team of people.

This generation, I tell you...

[thejigisup]

the game is fairly priced.

[uth11]

Let them deliver the features they intended first then talk paid dlc

[phantomexe]

I'd pay in a sec. We know we are geting free updates like an mmo but if they added stuff we could pay for as well i'd be all over it. Game is so much fun. My wife fighting me for the controler. She hates games where you have to aim a gun and yes she looks like a noob trying to shoot something. She loves this game tho the exploring got her hooked. Even ppl on my friends list are passing pictures around of creatures. A game is great when it can bring ppl together.

[PigsR4Eating]

Sean Murray is a liar. Anyone who still thinks there won't be paid DLC is an idiot, and those idiots will buy it too.

[joab777]

I'm down. For all the work such a small team did to create a game of this scale...And like any other dlc or any consumer product, if ya want it and its worth the price, you will pay for it.

Personally, I love this game so I'd live to see them continue to support it. There's so much that could be done in this universe.

[Pongwater]

Depends on what they add, but I'd consider paying for more.

Hell I got a digital copy and am already thinking of buying it again on disc just to have a physical copy.