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[mp1990]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

and here I thought this couldn't get any more interesting! what will happen next?

 

[Last_colossi]

Wow so Sean himself did tweet that.

Wow.

I'll still wait for some more confirmation, They could've just as easily hacked his email as well.

 

[JamboGT]

Poor fella

 

[xZoneHunter]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

Wow, even from the man himself.

 

[backflip10019]

Rapidly approaching Phil Fish levels of freak out.

I'll still wait for some more confirmation, They could've just as easily hacked his email as well.

I sincerely doubt this.

 

[digitalrelic]

Why don't you go kiss Sean on the mouth then?

Are we in 2nd grade now? You're exactly the type of person that the person you quoted is talking about.

 

[Interfectum]

God damn, this is brutal. I can't believe it's come to this.

The internet is out for blood, won't be happy until he grovels, gives money back and/or kills himself.

 

[Piers]

I literally gasped out loud.

 

[Weebos]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

Oh Jesus.

 

[runnin_blue]

At least if the Tweet and the email are both hacks, it might flush him out of hiding to make a public comment.

That may have been the plan...

 

[bfrye26]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...-no-mans-sky-tweet-wasnt-a-hack/#357928735efc

Forbes is reporting it was from a disgruntled employee, so who knows what to belive at this time!

 

[Henkka]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

Developing, we are still working for further verification that Sean Murray’s account hasn’t been hacked. Both NeoGAF and Reddit users believe the tweet was a result of a hack.

Good to know

 

[playXray]

"Both NeoGAF and Reddit users believe the tweet was a result of a hack."

Own up then, who said this? haha

 

[banefirelord]

Good lord, the Off Broadway one man stage play that's going to inevitably be inspired by this will be something else.

 

[Hektor]

Totally.

People on GAF love it when devs frequent the boards, but every GAF discussion concerning No Man's Sky could not be less understanding of the profession.

Well then, what is it that peopel don't understand?

 

[Bulby]

What's your win condition? What is it that people hope to have happen to either Sean Murray and Hello Games?

Them to go bust?
Them to never release another game?
Sean Murray to not have a job any more?
All involved to be drummed out of the Games industry
Sony to never market any Indie games on the PS4 again?

What is it that people who have been continuously going on about this game for months want?

Whats your win condition? Im really interested to see if its less than driving people to suicide.

I would like accountability.

Admission of the mistakes and why those mistakes were made.
I think they are talanted people and dont want to see them go out of business. Were they victims of AAA marketing? Was it their own over ambition.

Unfortunately someone HAS to be made an example of. So many publishers/developers get away with so much shit and its not fair to the paying consumer.

 

[OneLessIcon]

Man, the saga of this game is really something else.

 

[Cabbagehead]

Next time Hello games? Be fucking honest damnit that's all we fucking want, period. Don't led the world on or we will find out what you were hiding sooner or later. An by God don't treat us like idiots.

 

[El Topo]

Good to know

What do 4chan users think? What about 9gag?

 

[mjc]

If Sean Murray apologized and explained what really happened, this would be a lot easier.

This would be the best outcome, but I think the ship carrying those apologies has reached a far harbor by now.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

Damn.

holy shit

 

[orthodoxy1095]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

Goddamn.

 

[wesleyshark]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

Hahahahahahahah

 

[Darren_z33]

Sony isn't going to be too impressed, they just announced a PS4 bundle with NMS, didn't they?

 

[Skittzo0413]

Wow... shitty situation for all. This is intriguing as hell though.

 

[blackflag]

Getting bad vibes from this for some reason. I hope he's ok. He needs to learn from his mistakes and move on.

I never bought it or bought into the hype but I understand people would be pissed.

 

[Markew001]

Wow if not a hack.

 

[GlamFM]

The axiom of "don't preorder" doesn't preclude the idea that Hello Games shouldn't have lied or misrepresented their product.

That's not exclusive to NMS, but for some reason this game get singled out.

People want to see Sean go down, and it seems like they were successful.

That sucks.

 

[Serenitynow]

Reached for comment Friday morning, a person responding to Murray’s email account and identifying himself Sean said that he sent the tweet.

“The tweet is from me, but somebody from the team took it down,” he wrote in the email. “We have not been coping well.”

"We have not been coping well?" That's something you say after your family loses a family member. This is video games. So you made one sub-par game. Just start developing your next game and move on?

 

[Coolade]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

Well there it is.

 

[Jhn]

Now I feel sorry for him

Insert gif of Woody Harrelson wiping his tears with money here.

 

[Oersted]

Don't blindly trust anyone selling you a product is generally a good way to live. That doesn't mean you should wish the worst for anyone, who might have been involved in making a product that in the end, was not worth the money you managed to spend on it. It's crazy I know. But no, lets all be man babies instead, and look at everything in black and white.

Novel concept:

If someone lies, not only the one who has been lied to is to blame. Also the liar.

 

[Bronx-Man]

The internet is out for blood, won't be happy until he grovels, gives money back and/or kills himself.

BUT VIDEO GAMES!

 

[D1renegade]

This is incredible

 

[Foggy]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

If I had slaved away on this game, I'd be fucking livid right now

 

[mjc]

Are we in 2nd grade now? You're exactly the type of person that the person you quoted is talking about.

It was a joke, chill out dude.

 

[flkraven]

I don't think anybody is saying he shouldn't open a line of dialogue and talk about why they cut certain features, future plans (if they are any), and so on. But you have to realize that doing just that is made much more difficult when there is such a massive stream of vitriol and hate aimed at their social media accounts and across the Internet.

In the end, the discussion comes down to what we can control. We can't control what is cut from the game or their choice of talking to us after a game ships. We can control whether or not we give them our money.

His silence is what drove the vitriol to unsustainable levels.

He lied prerelease: he had an opportunity to clarify everything before it came out and to explain what's missing. He said nothing.

One day 1 when the 'nearly impossible' situation happened: 2 people found each other but they couldn't see each other. He ignored that, and just post 'wow!'. He could've explained. He said nothing.

A week passes and the PC release comes out. He says nothing.

After a week of silence, reddit makes a giant list of all the missing features. People dig into the network code, etc and see that the stuff he claimed wasn't even coded into the game. He says nothing.

2 months later. He still said nothing. Now the snowball is huge. Of course everyone is angry. He neglected the situation and now it got out of hand.

 

[Nibiru]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

His lies about the game were the mistake. He was on late night talk shows making stuff up that you could do in the game. That said had he been honest about it's limitations it wouldn't have sold as well.

I think if he was to apologize many would have forgiven the lies used to sell more copies. I feel like they are playing the victim when they clearly aren't. Just own up and people will forgive.

 

[purseowner]

Good lord, the Off Broadway one man stage play that's going to inevitably be inspired by this will be something else.

It would be titled 'Is Anybody Out There?'.

Hell, I'd see it.

 

[robotrock]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

Oh god are you serious

 

[Heckler456]

If Sean Murray apologized and explained what really happened, this would be a lot easier.

A guy in this thread, on Neogaf, just commented that he takes real-life pleasure from the misery of others, and wishes nothing but life's worst on him and the rest of the studio. If you think this stops with Sean Murray apologizing, then you're completely mistaken. The fact that you're expecting an apology from him personally, even though the entire studio is really at fault, attests to this fact.

 

[Cabbagehead]

Wow if not a hack.

It's not a hack. It came straight from the smiling horses mouth.

 

[Branduil]

I hope Sean gets the help he obviously needs, and then works to make amends with the gaming community.

 

[T.O.P]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

 

[Enter the Dragon Punch]

Rapidly approaching Phil Fish levels of freak out.



I sincerely doubt this.

Until Sean tells us to choke on his dick, insults everyone and cancels Fez 2, we'll be a bit far from that.

 

[Tecnniqe]

No Man’s Sky creator tweets game was ‘a mistake’ - Studio lead confirms via email

http://www.polygon.com/2016/10/28/13453440/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake?

 

[Gamezone]

What`s up with the tweets with 200+ likes? "No way, the game amazing, best game ever".

 

[Stone Ocean]

What do 4chan users think? What about 9gag?

4chan seems to be repeating the phrase "cucked" over and over
9gag took a screenshot of that Miyazaki meme and put a watermark on it

 

[Ammogeddon]

I feel a bit bad for him to be honest, hope he's alright.

 

[Hentailover]

I don't really feel sorry for Saun or anybody directly involved in decisions on how to present the game, but I do feel sorry for how rocky the careers will be for just your average coding joe in that team. Do you think they'll even put it on their resumes?