I see a lot of people jumping on the No Man’s Sky hype train again after the recently announced multiplayer update for the game. Should I remind these people that Sean Murray and Hello Games lied through their teeth at launch emphatically stating that the game will have multiplayer at launch. One year later they unashamedly announce that there will be a multiplayer component introduced in the game. After lying to us through the entire development cycle of the game. A new update won’t magically change the fact that there are still literally 6 pages of features missing out of the final game that was promised to us by Sean Murray and Hello Games.
Not to mention since launch none of the people at Hello Games or Sean Murray himself addresses the issues with their games being broken launch and missing features. There is absolute radio silence on their website and social media, and they haven’t addressed any of this publically yet. Hello Games has completely failed to communicate with the game’s fanbase once the game was released, that alone comes off shady as fuck. But I can already hear folks say: “But they deserve a second chance.” They already had a chance to come clean and address the issues regarding the missing features and the broken launch, did they?
No, they did not. Did they address the lies about multiplayer that Sean Murray spread during his interviews? No. They were given ample opportunities to redeem themselves countless times and they did not take it. And to those people telling me I should not be so harsh on Hello Games: I don’t expect my hamburger to look exactly like the one pictured on the menu, but dammit if it says “comes with two slices of cheese” there better be two slices of cheese on the damn thing! And if harshly criticizing and calling out a company for their obvious lies makes me a whiny self-entitled gamer then I don’t know what to say.
[Editorial Note:] If we allow companies like Hello Games to get away with this kind of bullshit they will continue to fuck us over at every opportunity they get and keep on delivering mediocre products to us the gamers because they have now seen that they can get away with it.