[reaperducer]

they keep putting out big updates, because every time they do that, more people buy the game.

Your friend of a friend must be mistaken.

We've been assured hundreds of times over by experts on HN that putting out quality software will lead to bankruptcy.

The only correct way to success is to build a low-grade MVP, then charge a monthly subscription, then sell the user's personal data and "telemetry." Surely, there can't be another way?

[loeg]

Do you remember how No Man's Sky was marketed and launched? I do.

[uMeanTest]

Same as everyone else’s now long defunct app was marketed in the midst of a hype bubble. Marketers gonna market.

Difference is the NMS team appears to have an offering people wanted versus Bear Clone #875 and web UI POC skewed to highlight some banal metric for $99/mo per team member #1,773,958