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No Man's Sky, And Why Lying About Your S--- ls Bad The week since No Man's Sky (a perfectly good, cool video game) came out has been a week of me getting Slightly More Irritated Than Usual with my Twitter feed, which is mostly super smart people who know all about video game development and all the tough junk that comes with it. Lots of folks are mad about No Man's Sky, and lots of folks're always mad at whatever so whatever, but here's what's s------- me: NMS was pretty grossly misrepresented, and a lot of the narrative I'm seeing from game-dev-types is that nothugely misrepresenting your product is somehow really hard to do, or somehow more than we should expect of developers. The most obvious example here is the multiplayer thing: a whole lot of people, including me, expected No Man's Sky to be multiplayer. You could play it with a friend. When I found out it wasn't (from an official news post that kind of soft-announced it in a sly faux-oblivious way), my first response was, "oh, I've misunderstood. That's disappointing." Turns out I hadn't misunderstood! They had explicitly said there was multiplayer a bunch of times, and they had never issued any kind of correction. It's not like there wasn't time or opportunity. There are a lot of issues like this; this is just the biggest one This one, at minimum, is something that it would have been incredibly easy to be clear about. Yes, properly communicating what your game is about can be tough. Yes, people get hyped and run away with themselves. Yes, people project their own ideas of the game onto the thing you made. That's not what happened here. Look how communicative their announcement trailer is. Look how much less awkward and more personable Sean Murray is than the average stammering indie game developer. The dude is able to articulate himself Things change on games in development all the time. The conventional wisdom is "don't announce a thing until you're sure", but things you're really sure about change on you too. And as long as you make any effort at all to maintain an honest dialogue, you can keep most people's expectations in check. Maybe you don't want to keep people's expectations in check, because there's lots of money on the hype train. But if it's that, you're a huge butt. The most generous possible read on the situation, the most flattering to Hello Games, is that they are incompetent in ways most developers are not. Hopefully it's just that. Either way, they've been dishonest, and they don't need other developers making excuses for them. Nobody made excuses for Colonial Marines Cool game, though. I found a seadoggo 17.9°C

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No Man's Sky, And Why Lying About Your S--- ls Bad The week since No Man's Sky (a perfectly good, cool video game) came out has been a week of me getting Slightly More Irritated Than Usual with my Twitter feed, which is mostly super smart people who know all about video game development and all the tough junk that comes with it. Lots of folks are mad about No Man's Sky, and lots of folks're always mad at whatever so whatever, but here's what's s------- me: NMS was pretty grossly misrepresented, and a lot of the narrative I'm seeing from game-dev-types is that nothugely misrepresenting your product is somehow really hard to do, or somehow more than we should expect of developers. The most obvious example here is the multiplayer thing: a whole lot of people, including me, expected No Man's Sky to be multiplayer. You could play it with a friend. When I found out it wasn't (from an official news post that kind of soft-announced it in a sly faux-oblivious way), my first response was, "oh, I've misunderstood. That's disappointing." Turns out I hadn't misunderstood! They had explicitly said there was multiplayer a bunch of times, and they had never issued any kind of correction. It's not like there wasn't time or opportunity. There are a lot of issues like this; this is just the biggest one This one, at minimum, is something that it would have been incredibly easy to be clear about. Yes, properly communicating what your game is about can be tough. Yes, people get hyped and run away with themselves. Yes, people project their own ideas of the game onto the thing you made. That's not what happened here. Look how communicative their announcement trailer is. Look how much less awkward and more personable Sean Murray is than the average stammering indie game developer. The dude is able to articulate himself Things change on games in development all the time. The conventional wisdom is "don't announce a thing until you're sure", but things you're really sure about change on you too. And as long as you make any effort at all to maintain an honest dialogue, you can keep most people's expectations in check. Maybe you don't want to keep people's expectations in check, because there's lots of money on the hype train. But if it's that, you're a huge butt. The most generous possible read on the situation, the most flattering to Hello Games, is that they are incompetent in ways most developers are not. Hopefully it's just that. Either way, they've been dishonest, and they don't need other developers making excuses for them. Nobody made excuses for Colonial Marines Cool game, though. I found a seadoggo 17.9°C

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