I'm getting pretty sick of this, I have to say. First off, before you yell at me, I am reserving judgement on whether this game is good or not until I actually play the game (and I WILL play this game), but the numbers are just bullshit. It doesn't matter if there is a hundred or a billion billion planets, if they're all boring repetitive shit. The numbers are a gimmick and they're pushing them way too much IMO. It's like Borderlands and their weapons. The worst part of Borderlands, for me, is that 99% of the weapons are not fun to use, because they are procedurally generated and not balanced / tested individually to be fun. The novelty wears off after your fifth gun and the only reason to keep playing is because you want to see what those abilities further down the skill tree do (or because of the story, which was NOT procedurally generated).

Am I going to land on a planet in this game and have an experience like I would in a game like Mass Effect? No. Am I going to land on a planet and it's going to be the same as the last 100 planets except bluer and the dinosaurs have an extra eyeball, and I have nothing else to do except shoot a dinosaur and try the next planet? Maybe, we'll see when the game comes out. Likely it's something in between, I hope they've done a lot more than just procedurally generate a bunch of variations with nothing compelling to otherwise do with them. But yelling "WE HAVE A BILLION BILLION PLANETS" just doesn't get me excited, every time I see it I roll my eyes.

It's like that site that "contains every thought, dream, book, poem, story, etc... that could ever be written in the English language." Except it actually contains nothing. You can spend years of your life trying random pages and not find anything remotely useful or interesting. It's a fun thought experiment but people blow it up to be something else because it sounds so neat on paper.