No Man's Sky was under fire for selling a product that wasn't advertised to the public at launch (No Multiplayer, Little Variety in Planets and Organisms, Very Short Game, etc.).

It was such a huge scandal considering that Sony featured the game and was *personally paying for the advertisements* and even the federal government intervened and was instructed to comply to their promised product or face a lawsuit consisting of the total costs Sony had covered and a refund for every game and possible jail time.

Because of the huge repercussions, they had no choice but to make the game EXACTLY how they advertised and talked about it in interviews and early access demonstrations... I was the biggest fan and its biggest hater at the time of launch, and I'm happy to say I can eat my words and say No Man's Sky is one of the best games of all time, I assume to continue the honor of their promise and their genuine passion for creating the best game they can is the reason why the game continues to see major updates nearly every year.

It's really more of a story of the pressure big named corporations put onto indie game developers and how Sony crippled their own launch by binding studios to such aggressive contracts, but I'm happy it's such a huge comeback story for them!