No Man’s Sky’s servers to be wiped before launch

8 Aug 2016

Steve Wright

Though some people already have their hands on No Man’s Sky early, they won’t be able to claim planet discoveries until after launch.

Hello Games’ Harry Denholm took to Twitter recently to confirm that discovery online storage would be wiped right around now.

Servers are being wiped on Sunday pic.twitter.com/JTmzabmU1R

— Harry Denholm (@HarryDenholm) August 5, 2016

Just discovery online storage

— Harry Denholm (@HarryDenholm) August 5, 2016

The game is due late tomorrow on PS4, and on 12 August on Windows PC.

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