I know that you don't need a reminder of how sometimes people on the Internet can be really horrible people, but sometimes it's needed so we can all remember how not to behave online.
No Man's Sky has been quite the awaited game since we first saw its announcement trailer. A game that promises procedurally generated planets, with space travel to allow you to skip between them? Hell yeah, a lot of people are understandably excited about it.
However, the team working on it at Hello Games has had a run of bad luck with one of the most notable past incidents being the flood on Christmas Eve 2013 that destroyed laptops, furniture and development kits along with quite a bit of work. At the time the studio said that it wouldn't cause a problem with meeting their release target, but that was a few years ago and things change. Hello Games recently announced that they would need to delay No Man's Sky a little bit and some people didn't like that at all.
So they sent death threats to the people at Hello Games. For some inexplicable reason.
The founder of Hello Games dealt with it in a very classy way through, tweeting that Hello Games now resembled the house from Home Alone so he was safe now. But then he followed up by adding "Tell me when its safe to remove the marbles and oil from the stairs. It's getting really cumbersome, and I need the toilet."
Tell me when its safe to remove the marbles and oil from the stairs. It's getting really cumbersome, and I need the toilet
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) May 28, 2016
Of course, making light of it is all well and good but really, death threats? Over a video game delay? Come on.
As I have written many times previously, delays in release can only help a game by allowing more time for bugs to be stamped out and the game polished and improved. Sure, they're annoying if you really want a game but speaking as someone who understands impatience, you're better off waiting.
Because really, no matter how many times you threaten to kill someone for delaying a game, it's still going to release in August now.