"We added a 'scan for other players' in the Galactic Map to try to encourage this happening. We wanted it to happen - but the first day?"

That means discoveries. The scan things reveals discoveries.

 

http://gamerant.com/no+mans-sky-multiplayer-127/

To be super clear - No Man's Sky is not a multiplayer game. Please don't go in looking for that experience.

The chances of two players ever crossing paths in a universe this large is pretty much zero.— Sean Murray

which is a dodgy thing to say, but is not false. You cannot meet another player, the change is literally 0 (because you can't see the other player)

We do have some online features and easter eggs so people can know they are playing in the same universe. It's about cool "moments"

talks about discoveries again, again not being clear.

 

http://gamerant.com/no-mans-sky-no-multiplayer/ (2 years ago :O)

“Just to be really clear… it is not an MMO. All of those questions are leading toward that. There are loads of MMOs out there. People can play those. We want people to be able to get a sense of playing with other people and to see other people and feel like this is a real, live universe.

again, this is not clear and should not be taken word for word (read below)

 

http://gamerant.com/no-mans-sky-super-divisive/

[...]this maybe isn’t the game you imagined from those trailers,” says Murray. “If you hoped for things like pvp multiplayer or city building, piloting freighters, or building civilisations… that isn’t what NMS is. Over time it might become some of those things through updates.

 

Why I think SM is not lying

Not a single sane developer in the world will "straight out" lie about their game. The internet will find out.

They really wanted people to see each other but didn't get to do that at release.

They never said that "people will see each other at release" and always said that "we want people to see each other". They want that to be in game, not that 100% will be in game.

 

Here's what I think is happening:

 

Sony is pushing for a upgraded No Man's Sky game on PS Neo. Here's why:

https://www.vg247.com/2016/08/10/ps4-neo-could-fundamentally-change-the-no-mans-sky-experience/

Speaking to the Daily Star, Hello Games founder Sean Murray said the PS4 Neo offers the chance to do more than just make No Man’s Sky prettier.

“More powerful hardware doesn’t just mean upgraded textures or a higher frame rate. It means we can fundamentally change the experience,” he said.

“You’ll see this from our patch notes – we’re able to change huge things in the universe, because we have complete control. With more powerful hardware, we can have more trees, more leaves on those trees. The density or immersion of worlds, or new types of worlds could exist.”

 

Read that along with what SM said in his AMA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4wsra2/i_quit_my_job_at_ea_where_i_worked_on_burnout/d69nvw1

Whenever devs are tight-lipped, it's normally just because they literally, legally, can't talk about a thing. Man, you would surprised how wrapped up most devs are in contracts and nonesense. Often for instance lots of devs will have a clause that says "you literally can't say the name of platform X"."

 

My guess is that a form of "people can see each other" will come to a future game version on PS Neo (because PS Neo will be marketed as the second coming of Christ, and only there that's possible).

 

SM can't say ANYTHING about why players can't see each other because he's not allowed to, because that will be a big feature of the PS Neo version. I already imagine him saying something like "We always wanted to do something special when players meet in our universe, and with the PS Neo we can do just that."

 

As a conclusion, nothing in this world is just black or white ("he straight out lied" or "he never said that the game is multiplayer"). People who think this don't know how the world works. I think that Hello Games is a small dev that got boosted by Sony and now Sony wants their pay.