Update 2: Hello Games has confirmed that the tweet was posted as a result of a hack. Read more here.
Update: According to Forbes, the tweet was from Sean Murray. In an email from his personal account, he reportedly wrote: “The tweet is from me, but somebody from the team took it down. We have not been coping well.”
Original Story: Hello Games has broken its silence following the continued controversy surrounding No Man’s Sky, tweeting: “No Man’s Sky was a mistake.”
The company came under fire following the launch of the game, which failed to live up to expectations and was accused of false advertising as a result of its marketing. Hello Games founder Sean Murray received the most amount of flak, with those who had previously been looking forward to the game branding him a liar, along making unfavorable comparisons to Peter Molyneux.
The tweet was posted at 1:48pm BST by the UK developer, before the developer’s Twitter account was made private. Screengrabs of the tweet, which you can see in the header image, have since circulated online, with Hello Games becoming a top trending topic following its posting. The same message was also reportedly posted on Sean Murray’s personal LinkedIn account.
Considering that the Twitter account was almost immediately made private following the tweet being posted, many have speculated that the account may have been hacked. There have been no tweets posted to the official No Man’s Sky Twitter account, run by Murray, since August 18.
Despite the game having been launched in August, many are still upset with the finished product. The No Man’s Sky subreddit, once a place of fervent excitement and almost cult-like worship of Hello Games, has now been host to daily complaints threads. The latest includes a message from the subreddit’s moderators, which criticizes Hello Games’ lack of effort to communicate with the game’s community, reading: “Whether or not No Man’s Sky is a good or bad game, or whether it deserves the beating its getting doesn’t matter. There are people who genuinely love your game and your silence is a slap in the face to everybody who dared to support the game in wake of growing criticism.”
There’s been no follow-up comment from Hello Games regarding this tweet, though we’ll update this post when/if we hear more.
