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[red731]

My head is spinning.
Not even VR did that.
Holy shit Moses

 

[Kinyou]

I can't believe people are so devoid of empathy as to not feel sorry for Murray or the team at all. They clearly wanted to make the best game possible -- it just turned out it wasn't possible. By that time the marketing had gotten away from them and I'm sure they thought the game would still be good enough to warrant the enthusiasm it incited, flaws and all.

For most people that wasn't true.

And everyone has raked them over the coals for it like a mob of selfish, angry children.

I didn't like No Man's Sky. I was also highly dissatisfied. It was not worth the price of admission. And it was marketed on promises it could not keep. But that is no. reason. to. ruin. a. life.

It was just another mediocre game. It didn't hurt you. Get over it.

They had a bunch of chances to reel the marketing back in. Hell, Sean himself made shortly for release a blog post about what people should expect from the game, part of that was his appearance on Colbert where he talked about meeting other players.So even in that "cards on the table" moment he was promising something that wasn't there

 

[Loudninja]

The Polygon, Forbes, and Mashable reports are all based on statements from Sean's personal email, which appears to have been hacked in addition to the HelloGames twitter account.

We also got a long two-paragraph "statement" from a Hello Games email address that was very clearly fake.

We've been trying to get him on the phone to sort this out. Most likely their email server was compromised, hence all the misinformation.

Thanks.

 

[Zyae]

What a strange reaction.

This thread really is unbelievable.

 

[Kaako]

The Polygon, Forbes, and Mashable reports are all based on statements from Sean's personal email, which appears to have been hacked in addition to the HelloGames twitter account.

We also got a long two-paragraph "statement" from a Hello Games email address that was very clearly fake.

We've been trying to get him on the phone to sort this out. Most likely their email server was compromised, hence all the misinformation.

Thank you for the update Jason. Put this in the OP as well and update.

 

[Hektor]

I enjoyed the game. Absolute insanity how much hate these guys have received.


Dissapointment? Sure. But pure hate?


Wish the internet wasn't always so savage, considering it's all human beings behind the shroud.

A statement of such importance, you felt the need to copy paste it ITT multiple times.

 

[Quonny]

No no.. It's:

WE NEED AND EXPLANATION EVEN AFTER WE RECEIVED OUR REFUND AND CAN GIVE TWO SHITS ABOUT THE GAME BUT I STILL WANT TO BE DISGRUNTLED!

Like... Move the on. deal. You got what you wanted and clearly the communication line is dead so leave the past in the past, know not to buy from the company again and leave it be. What the heck could they say now that would make anyone feel better? Nothing at this point! but you would think people who clearly aren't in the interest of hearing anything now would want that and they KNOW that they won't accept any answer besides whatever coined unrealistic phrase they have reserved that if not said exact, they won't accept.. So why even try it? It's so silly and immature now.

Who hasn't moved on, besides a very, very small minority? This is a thread discussing a game. Of course you're going to talk about the game. It's like if your friend says 'oh hey that kid from Phantom Menace got a new role in a movie, I thought he was pretty bad in that movie.' and you go 'Yeah, that movie fucking sucked'. Have you not let it go?

Or do you honestly think 99% of the people in this thread think of how Sean Murray lied to them daily and get mad?

Because I can tell you right now that's not true.

 

[Devilgunman]

So

1) Confirmed hack

2) Sean is alive and well

 

[EvilKatarn]

True, but I doubt other mediums here stuff like "the Google Pixel phone sucked, so screw every team member who worked on it, hope the worst happens to them blah blah blah".

If Google said the Pixel can make phone calls and it turned out at launch that it can't, you bet there'd be blood.

 

[AusRoachman]

Hmmm, I wonder who it was:

Definetely the guy way at the back who could barely get his head in the shot

 

[The Jackdog]

Oh, so exactly what I said? I see you haven't responded to my second point (since you cut it out) so I assume that means you believe this warrants ruing lives?

You've done nothing to invalidate my post. I say again, "Get over it."



Enough empathy to be pissed, want answers (which I agree is valid!), but not enough to attempt to ruin someone's life.

ruining lives? ive said multiple times in this thread death threats and showing up to the office are over the line.

Tweeting at hello games for making a shitty product, calling them asses, being mad about getting burned? Uhhhhh yeah theres nothing wrong with that. Idk what they expected. Its 2016 and they very publically lied about a ton of features they sold as a 60 dollar product.

All i really keep reading, and again, with the exception of death threats and similar over the line actions, is "but he tried really hard guys! wont someone think of the poor company!?"

No. i dont care. Bad companies that put out bad products dont get any sympathy from me. someone in this thread actually said "at worst you got swindled out of 60 bucks".

UH. YEAH. People can be mad they got swindled!

 

[oti]

bruh

Hmmm, I wonder who it was:

There's no need for this.

 

[Resident_UA]

There's absolutely no way to condone the abuse some are dishing out, but do some of you actually believe it's OK that Hello Games lied to their consumers regarding the product they sold? I don't understand how it's OK to give them a pass because some people are being abusive assholes.

I personally think you guys are just as pathetic as those throwing out the abuse.

You have to realize that NOT EVERYONE FELT LIED TO.

I rented and played the game for about 15 hours. It was kind of fun. Exactly what I expected. So this backlash against Hello Games seems crazy to me. Sure they exaggerated and lied, but I feel that way about every release. What came out recently... Titanfall? Well, I remember a promise of sort of campaign that was supposed to have multiplayer integrated. That's not really what we got. I can come up with 50 examples just from past 3 years.

 

[arts&crafts]

The soundtrack alone was worth $60.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

whewlad

The soundtrack alone was worth $60.

You could have bought that for $10.

 

[robotrock]

Whatever is happening they deserve it.

Yes it's just a videogame, yea it was just 60 bucks but they did this to a MILLION + people.

The way criminal charges work varies on severity, scam 60? Slap on wrist. Scam millions of dollars, life sentence.

Fuck hello games and that lying prick Sean.

You can tell he knows his gig is up even with this letter to reviewers.

Sean: "Hope you enjoy"

*0racle didn't enjoy*

0racle: "Fuck hello games and that lying prick Sean."

 

[ItIsOkBro]

This is performance art.

 

[OfTheOverflow]

Guys you don't understand: muh video gamez. Torrential abuse for months upon months is always warranted if you're dissatisfied with a video game. Did you not know this?

 

[LordOcidax]

https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/792014031964037120

This procedurally generated tweets are great.

 

[inky]

Oh poor you Sean, poor you.

 

[pitchfork]

Damn!

Take a bow son

 

[Alpende]

I'm too confused now

He's referring to his own tweet (@NoMansSky) while also referring to the @hellogames Twitter account. Nobody uses the HelloGames account apparently. Took me a while too.

 

[Sephiroth503]

The Polygon, Forbes, and Mashable reports are all based on statements from Sean's personal email, which appears to have been hacked in addition to the HelloGames twitter account.

We also got a long two-paragraph "statement" from a Hello Games email address that was very clearly fake.

We've been trying to get him on the phone to sort this out. Most likely their email server was compromised, hence all the misinformation.

You do good work Jason. Thanks.

 

[-tetsuo-]

Hi you must be new here

THERE
IS
NEVER
A
GOOD
REASON
TO
GIVE
ABUSE
TO
ANYONE

Are you ok?

 

[CharminUltra]

This has been a wild ride with no end in sight.

 

[ZehDon]

People don't usually feel empathy for scam artists.

Worst case scenario: he scammed a person out of $100. This divorces Sean from all human empathy? Really? Petty, thy name is "gamer".

 

[Relique]

Expecting any remorse from that snake. I knew better than that.

 

[StoicFnord]

This meme is cute and all, but I would save it for when people are actually pitchforking and calling for abuse. The last 2 people ya'll quoted haven't discussed abusing him.

Have you been reading the same thread? Care to nip back and read the posts.

"Deserve everything they get": Im sure that doesn't condone abuse at all.
"Play with fire, get burned": Nothing to do with abuse , eh?

English is fun. You might want to try it.

 

[Sjefen]

The plot thickens

 

[MassiveNights]

How do you figure? There's two sources pointing to it being Sean. He himself in an email as well as en email to the Wall Street journal saying it's a disgruntled employee which is something he also could classify as. There's only 15 people to choose from isn't there? As far as a hack goes..... that would mean someone hacked the Hello Games LinkedIn page and wrote one tweet and then quickly deleted that tweet and locked the count. Then this hacker proceeded to email gaming websites? There's quite a few assumptions with the hacker answer and not so many with the it's Sean Murray answer. I hope he gets the help he needs. I also hope he takes the time to at least apologize to his customers for failing to deliver on what they promised. It would go a long way towards stopping the vitriol.

Simmer down.

Jason Schreier said the e-mails were clearly fake.

Not everything is All The President's Men.

 

[The Jackdog]

You have to realize that NOT EVERYONE FELT LIED TO.

I rented and played the game for about 15 hours. It was kind of fun. Exactly what I expected. So this backlash against Hello Games seems crazy to me. Sure they exaggerated and lied, but I feel that way about every release. What came out recently... Titanfall? Well, I remember a promise of sort of campaign that was supposed to have multiplayer integrated. That's not really what we got. I can come up with 50 examples just from past 3 years.

youre....youre not really trying to compare THAT to the misrepresentations in no mans sky's marketing right?

 

[SpideySenses]

The last tweet is really fucking weird, an real achievement considering the last few hours. Was it meant to be directed at the HelloGames account?

 

[Lucario]

people want clarification on missing features? nah, better off ignoring it.

internet is angry at me? nah, better off ignoring it.

fans wondering if they're still going to get the updates I promised? nah, better off ignoring it.

hacker made me look apologetic? lol shit, better clear that up.

 

[TVexperto]

Spoiler

its a fake tweet

 

[Kaizer]

ONE-PAWWWWWWWWWNCH!!!!!!!!

 

[Hektor]

Worst case scenario: he scammed a person out of $100. This divorces Sean from all human empathy? Really? Petty, thy name is "gamer".

If would scam or steal from me i would have no empathy if peopel insult them over that afterwards.

What a weird statement to make.

 

[danowat]

Simmer down.

Jason Schreier said the e-mails were clearly fake.

Not everything is All The President's Men.

The simplest answer is usually the right one, although in this case, I am not quite sure which answer is the simplest.

 

[EL CUCO]

So, they were hacked. Or not?

At this point, who knows what's true. I'm just watching it all unfold with my popcorn.

 

[flkraven]

"You play with fire, you get burned" is a standard justification for abusing people. It can be paraphrased as "You deserve what you got for what you did".

English is fun.

Come the fuck on.

I've said and heard the phrase "If you play with fire you'll get burned" countless times in my life, and not once have I took it too mean I will get abused. If that phrase is triggering you, well that's on you. I take it to mean that Sean Murray is getting a wave of negative responses to his game because he lied to consumers and never explained himself. He isn't getting showered in praise. He played with fire (he sold a lie) and he got burned (a negative response). Not every negative response is abuse.

 

[Bronx-Man]

Are you ok?

Are you a sociopath?

 

[bunbun777]

And he was just about to tweet that he was sorry, thanks hacker for ruining it.

 

[Gemeanie]

I can't believe people are so devoid of empathy as to not feel sorry for Murray or the team at all. They clearly wanted to make the best game possible -- it just turned out it wasn't possible. By that time the marketing had gotten away from them and I'm sure they thought the game would still be good enough to warrant the enthusiasm it incited, flaws and all.

For most people that wasn't true.

And everyone has raked them over the coals for it like a mob of selfish, angry children.

I didn't like No Man's Sky. I was also highly dissatisfied. It was not worth the price of admission. And it was marketed on promises it could not keep. But that is no. reason. to. ruin. a. life.

It was just another mediocre game. It didn't hurt you. Get over it.

Sean brought it to himself by choosing to hide away. When unsatisfied customers are treated with radio silence instead of calming down and moving on chances are the grudge continues to grow and eventually gets out of control, and even the initially sympathetic customers may join the angry crowd when their impression changed from 'I wasted $60 on this' to 'Sean took my money and ran away'

I feel sorry for the rest of Hello Games, but not this man. It's not their fault they couldn't zip his mouth to keep him from speaking nonsense, or lying as some claimed.

 

[NightShift]

I'm now imagining everybody at Hello Games watching Mr Robot in silence with shifty eyes trying to determine who made the tweet like they are the Thing.

 

[mentallyinept]

The Polygon, Forbes, and Mashable reports are all based on statements from Sean's personal email, which appears to have been hacked in addition to the HelloGames twitter account.

We also got a long two-paragraph "statement" from a Hello Games email address that was very clearly fake.

We've been trying to get him on the phone to sort this out. Most likely their email server was compromised, hence all the misinformation.

Thanks for the update Jason.

 

[AyaisMUsikWhore]

I bought the game, I think it's trash, but I didn't fall for the marketing and I couldn't care less about the money I spent.

There's no acountability in this industry and it's time that something changes. So yes, they deserve all criticism, especially with how they've been handling post release.

But yes, I get it, outrage culture is in right now. I'll leave poor Hello Games alone. Sorry guys

Lmao!!! 😭 😭 😭 😭

I'm assuming the next game made by Hello Games (if even) is also going to sell millions.... Because no accountability right? I mean, from your post, your certainly don't have Stockholm Syndrome or short term memory lost so exactly how far do you expect them to go after this?

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Worst case scenario: he scammed a person out of $100. This divorces Sean from all human empathy? Really? Petty, thy name is "gamer".

Don't forget to multiply that by about 1 million people.

Perspective, how does it work

so...still hacked? clean this shit up, HG. we prefer you radio silenced, amirite.

 

[robotrock]

It's not even a real tweet.

What are we doing here GAF?

 

[moltonasty]

This thread really is unbelievable.

Every NMS thread is just pure insanity lol, and I can't get enough of it

 

[The Jackdog]

Have you been reading the same thread? Care to nip back and read the posts.

"Deserve everything they get": Im sure that doesn't condone abuse at all.
"Play with fire, get burned": Nothing to do with abuse , eh?

English is fun. You might want to try it.

calling a company a dickhead on the internet is not abuse.

death threats, going there, vandalism, thats abuse.

"Play with fire, get burned": Nothing to do with abuse , eh?

no it really really really doesnt sound like abuse there man my mom used to use that on me when i fucking jumped on the bed.

 

[Nibiru]

This thread really is unbelievable.

I know. There are people shouting that there is abuse everywhere in this thread and I think I might have found 2 posts.