Edge- "Released in 2010, Hello Games' Joe Danger was a PSN exclusive and one of the first games to receive backing from Sony's Pub Fund, which matches development costs in exchange for exclusivity. However, last week the Guildford-based studio announced Joe Danger: Special Edition, a remake of the original with kinks ironed out and some 15 hours of extra content, for Xbox Live Arcade.
How did that go down with Sony? And whatever happened to Microsoft's content policy, where it insists on content and release date parity for multiplatform releases? We caught up with managing director Sean Murray to find out how it happened, what the two platform holders are like to work with, and whether his previous description of XBLA as a "slaughterhouse" for small developers still stands."
From Games Radar: "What would you do if you were President of the United States of America for just one day? Hello Games' managing director would want to ask one question, and it's extremely on brand: "What's the story with the aliens?" Sean Murray told me this after revealing that he had some trepidation about bringing the ever-ambitious No Man's Sky to Switch, and after I wondered whether he had considered holding out for the long-rumored Nintendo Switch Pro – given the difficulties inherent to bringing the space sim to such a small system. Just as Murray has questions about Area 51 for his stint as President, he had similarly large, unanswerable questions for Nintendo when the collaboration began: "But, like, really, what's going on?"
No Man's Sky creator Sean Murray says his galaxy-spanning sandbox isn't close to being finished, despite receiving its 19th major update today.
You have to up your game man. Such a weak jab. This must be one of the weakest bait I ever saw. Lol
The game is 10x or 20x bigger than what it used to be for the same price if not half the price.
Biggest turn around I have ever seen in the history of video gaming.
This studio has done what most multi billion dollar companies don't do. Look at EA and post mass effect support, look at anthem and it's support, look at marvel avengers
Yes what they did at launch was absolutely wrong. But that's a amazing redemption story. This was a 5 man studio who's studio got flooded. He came into sunshine and wasn't ready for the spot light especially with Sony promoting it
Yes at launch they deserved all the negative press but 19 post launch expansions with major changes and updates
Now if they can add an interesting 15-20 hour story and quests that would be a complete package
Yeah, I think people really underestimate the whole "small time dev, shoots into spotlight to the point of going on to Late Night TV talk shows for interviews", and the fact he was doing PR as someone also actively developing the game.
He was probably routinely working on things he thought would get in but didn't. Or would be asked in the moment, want to please the interviewer, doing on the fly calculation for what he thought were feasible adds. I'm not saying he was not in the wrong. But I'm saying I think we can find it easier to believe these were true mistakes, rather than malicious lies to peddle his wares. Especially when compared to a game made by a 300 person development studio making a $100+ million dollar game where everything said is vetted & calculated well in advance by a team of PR people.
These updates, I think, show his character. That's he's a good dude who made just made mistakes. And he's learned, not even teasing updates at this point. He's letting the content do the talking now, and there isn't a much better degree of honesty than that.
Sean Murray "HAD" to make those updates and expansion packs.if not to this day No man Sky would be the Worse game Ever!!! made. and used as a example how not to make a video game joke.
Retroman
I agree and he and his studio won't have much future in gaming. But let's not act like they have gones above and beyond and the price of this game has went way up. This is what CDPR needs to look at. Their studio got flooded so they lost a lot of work but because there was such a hype train behind this they didn't want to delay. Other billions dollar companies simply give up and move on to other projects. Mass effect Andromeda is such a true example, EA gave up on the game and said there will be no more updated when the developers were clearly making improvements with patches and could have done some dlc
And btw mass effect Andromeda made over 100 million dollars so it's not like it lost EA money. With NMS I believe they have found their Minecraft and they can keep adding more and more to make this game more fun
Like a said have some interesting factions
Have a solid story
Have fun side quests
Improve base building
Better NPC characters
Yes they lied at launch but I don't think the studio was ready for all the PR but instead of giving up they stuck with it and now keep on making improvements
Let's keep one thing in mind NMS made a lot of money at launch so they could have taken it and left but instead this game is selling for $60 most of the times and $25-30 on sale
To add next generation support
VR support
Keep it going and take the gamers feed back and keep on improving. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if Sony bought them out and this is their Minecraft available on all platforms. Provide a bigger team with more resources
I haven't heard much from him ever since he grinded his game and made it into what he promised before.
If what Sean/HG has done after literally 5 years at this point hasn't helped to redeem themselves in your eyes, I guess nothing will. I hope you never make a mistake. Or rather, I guess I hope your family or friends never make a mistake with you since even a 5 year long mea culpa appears to not be enough lol.
Look. I used to shit on NMS and Sean Murray as much as anyone else, and I'll never forget what they did. But they've paid their dues. They endured one of the worst backlashes this industry has seen. They've learned their lesson, and have done tremendous work building on NMS. It's time to move on from the negativity and just let them be.
I dunno, "Isn't Finished 'By a Long Shot'" may be the most honest thing he has ever said.
Just a shame he didn't say it before the game launched
Could have saved myself the money
But people who bought it at launch are still playing and enjoying it years later? He did always say they would support it post release..
I say teh same thing about the Xbox One I had. I they stated the whole PC thing before I bought my xbox I wouldn't have spent the money.
But that was also from 2015 and since then I have learned to grow the fuck up.
It is billions of years into the future and the sun is running out of Hydrogen to burn, swelling up into a super red giant and about to incinerate the Earth. In other news, No Man's Sky is releasing it's 58372996322nd free update and Sean Murray expresses, "I'm not even half way finished". Also Star Citizen teases alpha build 5829187857829.02 and crosses over 46 quintillion dollars. "We're not a scam! claims devs".
I hope you never played Fortnite, Minecraft, Apex, Overwatch, Warzone, Halo Infinite, or any other game that keeps getting updated.
Or else you would be a hypocrite for not complaining about any of those games that have been updated since release :)
Usually? Say hello to recently released games such as Crossfire X, Battlefield 2042, GTA Trilogy “Definitive” Edition, and eFootball 22.
Hello Games founder Sean Murray said the letter "broke our hearts and made us want to set things right". It has now been relaunched on iOS.
What an amazing story, Joe Danger was a fantastic game and hearing about these kinds of stories makes me much happier than hearing adults bicker back and forth about which animations a game is re-using and the amount of pixels on the screen.
This is what gaming is really about and I feel like some people just tend to forget that
