no man's sky was the first game i ever bought day one digitally. i remember the guy at the counter specifically telling me "you can't return it since it's digital." up until then, i had never had such a bad experience with a game that i wanted to return it.

then i got home and played it.

nms was honestly, as everyone knows, awful at launch and remained awful for quite some time after. but years passed, and by 2020 i had heard it somehow got good- so i played it again. and yes indeed, it had gotten good. it still feels sort of empty at times, but it's a thousand times better than what it was at launch, and it's genuinely fun and addicting