[bragr]

I don't think that's an accurate characterization of the No Man's Sky situation. Sean Murray has been quite public about his own role in building up the hype they couldn't live up to, initially at least. They did eventually ship basically all the promised features in the end though.

[djtango]

In hindsight I guess No Man's Sky panned out like a super protracted crowdfunded game with a large scale prolonged beta-phase.

Which I guess is true for a lot of other games too.

Props to Final Fantasy XVI for shipping a finished product. I think they got enough flak for trying it on with XV that they realised they couldn't afford to burn anymore bad will.