It wasn ' t just overhyped . The game was a lie . There is a huge difference between the playerbase hyping something up to be something it ' s not by drawing wild conclusions and stuffwhich did happen . and the developers flat out lying . Entire features are missing from the game . Multiplayer . Massive space battles . Teleportation . Ship classes . Lifeless worlds . Landing on asteroids . NPC followers . Giant animals . Planetary physicsorbits and such . Ringed planets . Manually flying between stars . Rivers . All promised features that are completely missing from the game . If the game actually had these things , and was actually the game that HG had promised it would be . well there wouldn ' t have been even close to the amount of backlash there has been .