There isn’t any (large-sized, anyway) nearby. It doesn’t make much sense to say there isn’t any other life in the many, many, many orders of magnitude larger swaths of the Universe we can’t see.

A lot of the problems could be solved with a massive overhaul of the whole cert. system. I mean, we both know that almost certainly won’t happen... but it should.

They do QA, but just because they have done it doesn’t necessarily mean they can fix every single thing they find before having to going gold due to time constraints. Then they spend the rest of the time they have fixing as much as they can before launch, resulting in a day one patch.

Because even digital has the same certification stuff on consoles?

Polygon did the same thing when they posted his article, too. Added in a NMS screenshot and video in the middle of the article.

I have had cats and dogs my entire life. I think you have it backwards, I am very familiar with both of them.

Mice are vermin, good on the cat for cleaning things up first. It has its priorities straight.

The “gold” version of a game can be upwards of several months old for consoles, would you prefer the developers just twiddle their thumbs for 1-4 months after it becomes gold? Or would you rather they finish making the game what they wanted it to be for launch during that time?

You think the day 1 patch stuff is because they are lazy?

It is all bureaucracy man. It is just how certification works on consoles, the developers don’t like it any more than we do. You think they want to have to send off a copy of the game months before launch to get it certified so they can actually release it? They would obviously prefer something like Steam, where that…

Right? By that logic, World of Warcraft has been unfinished for over a decade.

Uh, they have told you what it is? It is a space exploration game with some combat, trading and the like? Everyone exists within the same Universe (supposedly, anyway, there may be more than one I guess) so you can theoretically run into someone else... but the odds are that you probably won’t see anyone else very…

Maybe try the company that made Ori and the Blind Forest?

In my experience, cats are affectionate because they want to be affectionate to you.

I see what you are getting at.

Starbound.

They aren’t reversible and turn inside out to make another pokemon?

That sounds infinitely better than a few hundred foot drop onto concrete, I must admit.

What do you define as your standard pirate? Someone committing just for personal use in First World countries? The bootlegger selling DVDs out of his trunk in the city? Someone selling games in a country with insanely high prices and criminally low wages? If there’s financial gain involved, you’re beyond simple RIAA…

Well, it is pretty clear this guy is going to die doing what he loves.