Butterfly Effect

“I remember getting a death threat about the fact that there were butterflies in our original trailer, and you could see them as you walked past them, but there weren’t any butterflies in the launch game. I remember thinking to myself: ‘Maybe when you’re sending a death threat about butterflies in a game, you might be the bad guy.’”

— Sean Murray, No Man’s Sky developer Sean Murray: ‘It was as bas as things can get’, The Guardian, July 20, 2018

I logged in last night to play a little bit before the NEXT update came out. I landed on a beautiful lush world and started wandering around. I came up over a ridge, and there were butterflies — I finally got to see them.

I pre-ordered No Man’s Sky, and played it on Day 1. I really enjoyed it, and wasn’t disappointed, or felt like I had been cheated. Then Destiny’s Rise of Iron came out, and I went and played that. I came back to No Man’s Sky for it’s Atlas Rises update, and was really impressed with how much had been added. I’m really excited to try NEXT today.