Will No Man's Sky Pull an Arkham Knight?

If you were reading this site about 13 months ago, you will have followed the debacle which hit Batman: Arkham Knight, when it hit PC shortly after consoles. Well, with No Man's Sky having been on sale on Steam for less than three hours at time of writing, it has nonetheless managed to get a similar level of scorn from Steam User Reviews.

One day after going on sale, Arkham Knight was yanked from sale from Steam, as well as other online outlets, after over 6000 negative reviews.

At time of writing, No Man's Sky has almost 4,000 negative reviews, to over 2,000 positive reviews. And not all of the positive ones are worded positively, with "The refund button works well." being one such positive review.

CEO of developer Hello Games, Sean Murray, has taken to Twitter to list some of the reasons that people are experiencing poor framerate issues, terrible lag and graphical glitches.

Number two issue so far is players who have out of date GFX drivers, or none installed. Please install latest drivers from AMD and nVidia.

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 12, 2016

Number three please make sure your GFX card is above the min spec. OpenGL 4.5 is required to play No Man's Sky

— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) August 12, 2016

People began to worry when the download came in at under 3GB. This was after Murray had stated it would be 7GB, and Steam lists it as requiring 10GB of space available.

Of course, the performance issues for Arkham Knight seemed to be a luck of the draw for most people. It was either slow, or it was fine, for people with the exact same setup. Of course, Warner Bros Games weren't as swift to issue a patch - one should have hit Steam for anyone who has already installed the game as of this post.

Nonetheless, we will keep you posted.