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I disagree. I am not bitter, but Sean Murray after launch was sitting in interviews, claiming that the game had multiplayer (and a lot of other stuff), knowing

I disagree. I am not bitter, but Sean Murray after launch was sitting in interviews, claiming that the game had multiplayer (and a lot of other stuff), knowing fully well that those were lies. On top of many, many lies that happened before launch. These are not "rookie mistakes". This is a person that is clearly fine with lying to players in order to hype up the game. He should never be trusted again. Yes, it's exemplary that they fixed the game, and added all those features, but Sean Murray remains an untrustworthy individual. I would never hire, do business with, or believe him. I will stay away from anything this guy does in the future.

zoogeny 2y ago
I'm not going to try to gaslight you since your memories are your own. But consider your memory of 9 years ago in the light it occurred. After huge hype, the entire gaming world turned Hello Games and Sean Murray into a meme. Every video was clipped and cut to make him look like a mustache twirling villain that was lying to trick gamers into buying his shit shovel-ware game. We have this vision of a huckster game developer whose entire grift is to hype and then abandon games and Sean became the poster child for this. This was made much worse by Sony strongly pushing No Man's Sky as an indie success story adding even more fuel to the hype. But lets consider the next 9 years and ask: does the behavior of Sean match that caricature? If he was indeed the lying manipulative hype man that reddit memes made him out to be, how would we expect him to act? Wouldn't he take the money and run? 5 years after the launch, the engoodening video from Internet Archivist was released. Penny Arcade also has that famous cartoon from a few years ago. His reputation is mostly laundered now. Why do they keep releasing free updates? Why is he not shovelings out a bunch more over-hyped crap? Do you think this is the longest 9 year con job in the history of games? That is the lack of perspective I am talking about. Sean oversold the game and got called out for it. He was put in the public stocks and people threw rotten vegetables at him. Then he and the rest of the team spent 9 years quietly grinding away to prove they believed in the game and believed in their vision. You remember some videos cut to make him look evil 9 years ago. I'm talking about 9 years of him showing who he and his team really are.
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- parineum 2y ago
  Bottom line is that he knowingly lied about his game before release. I'll assume no motivations but he hasn't really been put in that position again to redeem himself because he's just been releasing updates. I'll still not trust him when NMS 2 hype starts rolling.

zoogeny 2y ago

I'm not going to try to gaslight you since your memories are your own. But consider your memory of 9 years ago in the light it occurred. After huge hype, the entire gaming world turned Hello Games and Sean Murray into a meme. Every video was clipped and cut to make him look like a mustache twirling villain that was lying to trick gamers into buying his shit shovel-ware game. We have this vision of a huckster game developer whose entire grift is to hype and then abandon games and Sean became the poster child for this. This was made much worse by Sony strongly pushing No Man's Sky as an indie success story adding even more fuel to the hype. But lets consider the next 9 years and ask: does the behavior of Sean match that caricature? If he was indeed the lying manipulative hype man that reddit memes made him out to be, how would we expect him to act? Wouldn't he take the money and run? 5 years after the launch, the engoodening video from Internet Archivist was released. Penny Arcade also has that famous cartoon from a few years ago. His reputation is mostly laundered now. Why do they keep releasing free updates? Why is he not shovelings out a bunch more over-hyped crap? Do you think this is the longest 9 year con job in the history of games? That is the lack of perspective I am talking about. Sean oversold the game and got called out for it. He was put in the public stocks and people threw rotten vegetables at him. Then he and the rest of the team spent 9 years quietly grinding away to prove they believed in the game and believed in their vision. You remember some videos cut to make him look evil 9 years ago. I'm talking about 9 years of him showing who he and his team really are.

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parineum 2y ago
Bottom line is that he knowingly lied about his game before release. I'll assume no motivations but he hasn't really been put in that position again to redeem himself because he's just been releasing updates. I'll still not trust him when NMS 2 hype starts rolling.