In this episode we each pick out three games that we were so hyped about, but ultimately left us disappointed.

Jalada and Sefran explain why community management is so important in the development and maintaining of video games, from the perspective of video gamers.

• 7 Days to Die developer blog
• Examples of less-than-ideal pre-launch management: Spore, Fable, No Man's Sky.
• "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided silly preorder scheme scrapped"
• Diablo 3's significant Loot overhaul patch, dubbed 'Loot 2.0'.
• "Final Fantasy 14 killed by Square Enix’s stubbornness, reborn by a new approach"
• Elite Dangerous Galnet News
• id Software's open-sourced game code on GitHub

Intro & outro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion

Welcome to Octal FM! After introducing your hosts, we dissect the PS4/PC game No Man’s Sky. Related reading from the show:

• Freelancer
• Star Citizen
• Elite: Dangerous
• Journey
• Spore
• Procedural generation
• No Man’s Sky stats on SteamSpy
• Diablo 3
  • Diablo 3's loot 2.0 patch (sample of media coverage for context)

Please let us know what you thought by Tweeting @octalfm, or using the email address in the show. Intro & outro music: JACKS  - Runaway Fashion