Back in 2014, I felt that No Man's Sky was a gloriously ambitious, space exploration title, unlike anything we've experience to this point in gaming. Sadly, it's been marred by complaints over missing features that has now lead to an investigation from an advertising agency. According to Eurogamer, the ASA (advertising standards authority) has opened an investigation against the Valve and Hello Games title. Questions were raised around specific features shown and spoken about in past conferences and trailers for the recently released title. Several weeks ago, compilation videos like this surfaced on the net about game director Sean Murray showing features that never made it to the final game or were missing completely upon it's release. After the release of the game on August 9th, players quickly found out the game they got were missing features like the much talked about multiplayer, which would have allowed players to interact on the same planets. This then lead to a large number of returns which major retailers like Amazon, Sony, and Steam granted under specific conditions. It was recently revealed that the number per hours on steam has dropped from over 20 thousand players per hours to around 1 to 2 thousand (source depending). Which is awful news to come just on the heels of the announced investigation. Whether Murray and company lied intentionally or not, a good handful of features are in fact missing including some of the most complined about features compiled by Reddit user AzzerUK including 'flowing water,' and even 'large scale space combat.' Whether Hello Games and Valve will have to issue some major refunds is yet to be seen but it looks like No Man's Sky is in some serious trouble.
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