Image courtesy of Hello Games.
Image courtesy of Hello Games
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Alex described himself as "disappointed" with the features missing from No Man's Sky but was still captivated by the game. In culling a list of what had been quietly cut, in his eyes, he was trying to push back on a growing narrative that passionate fans had whipped themselves into a frenzy over nothing, "based solely in people having overhyped it for themselves.""It wasn't until I started seeing a game that wasn't in my PlayStation that I started wondering what the fuck happened, you know?" he said, reading and watching tons of No Man's Sky interviews. "I didn't go in from a point of anger, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't come out the other side feeling like I'd been had."The internet is prone to hyperbole. Either Sean Murray is a con artist who knowingly manipulated fans, or players are brain dead victims of marketing. The truth, like most things, isn't that simple. (No Man's Sky fans did themselves no favors in the court of public opinion after sending death threats to a Kotaku reporter and Sean Murray over the game's recent delay, however.)
That hyperbolic energy can be directed in different directions, and Alex had no control. It backfired."[I got] dozens of messages from people who congratulated me for really sticking it to these 'dirtbag' devs, when that wasn't my intention at all," he said. "People were taking the post and using it to fuel their own indignant anger. The final straw was when a YouTuber sent me a link to a video he'd made with the information in my post, and it was like 'Sean Murray Lies For X Minutes' or something… People were crediting me in their take-downs, and I stopped wanting any part in it."[I got] Dozens of messages from people who congratulated me for really sticking it to these 'dirtbag' devs, when that wasn't my intention at all. People were taking the post and using it to fuel their own indignant anger. —Alex
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