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[Wuiji]

I honestly think this was a genuine Hello Games tweet,

Spoiler

because I can't see it

 

[friskykillface]

It's just one game, move on
Sometimes it happens
Take the L and move on
You at least made some money so pay your staff and let them go if they want to

 

[kennyamr]

wow.
Like for real, poor Hello Games.
This is almost surreal.
(Even if it's a hack something not official).

 

[Linkstrikesback]

Who is actually calling for hello games blood beyond thinking they and their game sucks?

Have you seen some of the vocal people on twitter?

 

[KingBroly]

Who is actually calling for hello games blood beyond thinking they and their game sucks?

People are mad at them for a variety of the reasons, but the most damning is them not talking about it for months. This tweet, hacked or not, is big news, because it's the first signs of life from them IN A LONG TIME.

 

[hoserx]

@nomanssky twitter is back. tweet gone.

 

[Chris Metal]

There's actually a follow up tweet, you just can't see it.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

Some noted it was a tweet made via LinkedIn, which is a bit of a work-around for no good reason, if this somehow wasn't a hack.

And seriously, a person in such dire straits as implied here would not use a meme sentence.

It's almost as if Linkedin has been hacked in the past... oh wait.

 

[thecouncil]

Must have been a typo.

 

[marcurius]

I'm glad you like to being lied and scammed at your face, but I'm not. I guess that if Im a baby for complaining about a that, you must be an absolute cuck.

People have been completing about it for months. It's a game that apparently turned out mediocre, like thousands of others. Get over it.

 

[Hydrogen Bluebird]

Is this really a hacked twitter account? Because it might be better to say that they got hacked (if they really were), instead of setting the account to private.

sean murray is a hack alright

GODDAMN.

 

[GinoFelino]

Sean Murray was their PR and he was a lying and being misleading all the way until he went radio silent.
Young and ambitious is not how I'd describe him.

You can't both mess up your PR and be young and ambitious? Everyone makes mistakes, the PR is his.

If anything it's a interesting social experiment to see what happens when you mess up as a developer and then give the silent treatment.
I feel like it's worse then actually just flat-out lying of what happened. People just went berserk.

It doesn't excuse what they've done wrong of course. But I do think the amount of absolute hatred and vileness they've received is out of proportion. There have been people going to the HG office, looking through windows, stalker-like behavior. It's kinda terrifying really.

There is "messed up PR" and "literally no sign of life since August". They sold a ton of games, least they can do is keep people decently updated with their plans and what they are working on.

Again, Hello Games were very active in communicating about fixes when the game just released. It was only when the community anger bomb truly burst (and kept going and going and going) that they went dark.

Can you really blame them?

 

[Cabbagehead]

Oh geez.

I'm glad I was never one to engage in the calling for blood surrounding the game's inadequacies, because the thinly-veiled witch hunts seemed to be verging on the extreme at times. I just hope no one at the team does anything stupid. Dust yourselves off and try again.

And don't announce your game too early.

Don't lead people on, get a PR team, know your limits. Get help when you need it and get a PR team. Repeat don't put yourself in the limelight if you are unsure about your project.

 

[danowat]

@nomanssky twitter is back. tweet gone.

Normski is on twitter?

 

[How About No]

Next tweet:


...for you.

"You're a big open-ended galaxy"

 

[sublimit]

Well i hope they learn from it then.

 

[ClosingADoor]

I don't really think the two situations can be compared. Remember, Hello Games were very active in communicating about fixes when the game just released. It was only when the community anger bomb truly burst that they went dark.

Where did they communicate? Game came out on the 12th of August. Final Tweet is 18th of August. That is not being active in communicating. They put some patches out and then went dark without telling anybody what is going on.

And that is ignoring the days before release where they refused to clear up any questions about the game, specifically in regards to multiplayer.

People harassing them is going way, way too far and should not happen. But they were not active in approaching the community and letting them know what's going on.

 

[Aressa]

I honestly think this was a genuine Hello Games tweet,

Spoiler

because I can't see it

Nice.

 

[KingBroly]

@nomanssky twitter is back. tweet gone.

It was on @hellogames, not @nomanssky

 

[Fret]

Again, Hello Games were very active in communicating about fixes when the game just released.

for what, like 3 days?

 

[Admodieus]

I'm still waiting for somebody who feels "lied to and scammed" by Hello Games to explain why they didn't wait for reviews to be posted before forking over their $60.

 

[AAMARMO]

Account still protected tho lol.

 

[Hydrogen Bluebird]

People have been completing about it for months. It's a game that apparently turned out mediocre, like thousands of others. Get over it.

Are you serious with this shit. How about the many counts of false advertising and lying to media and consumers about their product?

 

[Gaspard]

What a clusterduck this game has been.

 

[Bamboo 竹]

Deep shit right here.

 

[idonteven]

if it was a hack watch them say nothing about it and the twitter stays dead

 

[Interfectum]

I'm glad you like to being lied and scammed at your face, but I'm not. I guess that if Im a baby for complaining about a that, you must be an absolute cuck.

Sometimes games get overhyped and turn out to be shit. Sometimes promised features get cut or never get put in. Learn from this and don't pre-order games. Stop trying to justify harassment.

Hello Games, as a studio, is fucked. You have already won. Move on.

 

[Breakage]

NMS is part of an upcoming PS4 bundle tho so this can't be true.

 

[TheExhaustedWalrus]

Wow. That's depressing

 

[0racle]

Procedural generated honesty.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

Where did they communicate? Game came out on the 12th of August. Final Tweet is 18th of August. That is not being active in communicating. They put some patches out and then went dark without telling anybody what is going on.

And that is ignoring the days before release where they refused to clear up any questions about the game, specifically in regards to multiplayer.

People harassing them is going way, way too far and should not happen. But they were not active in approaching the community and letting them know what's going on.

http://www.no-mans-sky.com/news/

They kept talking until sept 2.

 

[ViolentP]

Perhaps Sean Murray accidentally hit CTRL+V while Twitter was open.

 

[NightShift]

This is perfect.

If someone hacked the account, they wouldn't just private it, they would want as much people as possible to see the tweet. Someone at Hello Games made the tweet and they or someone else panicked. #TeamReal

 

[Floex]

I'm glad you like to being lied and scammed at your face, but I'm not. I guess that if Im a baby for complaining about a that, you must be an absolute cuck.

It's comments like these that are just mind boggling, at what point did HG force you to buy the game? You and everyone else who is butt hurt should have waited for reviews or from people who were eager to try the game out.

I was skeptcial of the game before release so I didn't pre order and waited to hear responses. It's that simple.

 

[maximum360]

This should tie in nicely with the "No Man's Sky" PS4 European bundle. I'm sure Sony is quite pleased.

 

[LuchaPablo]

This tweet will look awesome as an advert for new bundle

 

[Admodieus]

Are you serious with this shit. How about the many counts of false advertising and lying to media and consumers about their product?

Why did you pre-order?

 

[EVH]

People have been completing about it for months. It's a game that apparently turned out mediocre, like thousands of others. Get over it.

And? Can't I say that the guy is having this because he actually lied and scammed gamers? I guess gamers deserve to be scammed more than him to be ashamed of his lies.

You should get over that people complains about a scam game, not me. Like other games being a scam changes anything.

 

[Shock32]

Sometimes games get overhyped and turn out to be shit. Sometimes promised features get cut or never get put in. Learn from this and don't pre-order games. Stop trying to justify harassment.

Hello Games, as a studio, is fucked. You have already won. Move on.

exactly this, Harassing somebody isn't going to fix anything. Do people want something tragic to happen to the guy? will that make them feel better?

 

[Seiniyta]

I did wish the one that tweeted it would have said something like "Huge major patch being released". Now that would have been a shitshow XD.

 

[Hydrogen Bluebird]

Again, Hello Games were very active in communicating about fixes when the game just released. It was only when the community anger bomb truly burst (and kept going and going and going) that they went dark.

Can you really blame them?

Can you blame consumers who bought their product?

 

[Yaboosh]

This tweet will look awesome as an advert for new bundle

Is that coming to the US? Seems like a solid bundle.

 

[marcurius]

Are you serious with this shit. How about the many counts of false advertising and lying to media and consumers about their product?

No, I don't think that deserves a hate parade like what's been going on. Don't buy their games in the future if you feel like they didn't deliver.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

sean murray is a hack alright

Goddammit lol.

I feel so, so sorry for Sean. He's a dude who tried to do a thing, and the marketing/hype got completely out of control. It's been said a million times, but if this was a $15 game that wasn't the Second Coming in the publicity stuff, this wouldn't have happened. And the hounding has been relentless. I have no idea why people think it's okay to go to a company's offices, to try and find out somebody's home address; why it's okay to constantly scream at them, simply because they didn't like the thing that they purchased; why apparently people are owed updates, or a lack of silence after this. I can't fathom it. It's one of the worst examples I've ever seen of the internet being shit, and I was genuinely worried for a while that there would end up being a tragedy of some sort because of the massive over-reaction to a mediocre game that didn't quite do what it promised. And this tweet, unfortunately, is only going to make things that much worse - regardless if it's a hack or not.

The hype spiraled because of the bullshit Sean spewed.

He doesn't deserve sympathy for having to lie in the grave he dug himself.

Well they should start talking then. Remember AC Unity fiasco? Ubisoft had updates every few days about patches and fixes.

Also tweet was deleted too fast and account got locked/protected too fast to be a hack in my opinion.

Ubisoft had PR statements addressing the issues in like days.

HG still hasn't written a real one.

I don't really think the two situations can be compared. Remember, Hello Games were very active in communicating about fixes when the game just released. It was only when the community anger bomb truly burst that they went dark.

Bug fixes are nice, but there was hardly an ounce of contrition shown for people's disappointment and for the lies they had spread.

Instead they tried to justify their own words as not having any meaning:

What matters now, as always, is what we do rather than what we say.

 

[Archurro]

Normski is on twitter?

Are you serious with this shit. How about the many counts of false advertising and lying to media and consumers about their product?

That's the entire reason why we have reviews. Never buy before reviews, jfc why haven't people realized this yet.

 

[Spider_Jerusalem]

 

[-shadow-]

Well it's not like it's not true.

 

[Vex_]

This whole story is just SOOOO crazy I just cant help but laugh at this crazy ass shit. Things really got out of control with the release of NMS.

 

[HStallion]

I think releasing a vine would have been more appropriate

 

[USF]

I think it's a genuine Hello Games tweet.
Tweeted via LinkedIn