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No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul
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The whole situation just made me believe Sean Murray really wanted to make a cool game but he got overwhelmed by the media attention and started running his mouth. Maybe he felt like he had to overpromise and say yes to everything he was asked? Hello Games was still an indie studio before it got all that attention.
If he had done it in bad faith it would have been much easier to cut his losses and run away with the money. Nearly 10 years of expansions wouldn't come out of it if not for legitimate passion.
It also made their next game announcement pretty funny.
I think the fans & press deserve equal blame for the initial hype. At some point I saw a supercut of things Sean Murray said, then the resulting headlines and Reddit posts.
In an interview, the journalist asks: "Will you be able to play with your friends in a shared universe?" The answer: "Well...we hope that eventually there will be at least some multiplayer functionality, though maybe not on day one...like maybe you could explore one another's planets or share pictures or something."
Headline: "NO MANS SKY WILL LAUNCH WITH MULTIPLAYER!"
Reddit comments: "I'm already forming a guild, we're going to play as bounty hunters chasing down other players who are pirates in glorious multiplayer space battles!!"
There were tons of examples of that. Journalists would poke and prod for a soundbite, take it out of context and exaggerate it, and the community would just go batshit with their expectations.