No Man's Sky didn't live up to expectations, that much most people agree with. No matter whose fault it was, the game was hyped to hell and back and would have had a difficult time living up to it all in the end. However, earlier today it seemed that Hello Games themselves were regretting No Man's Sky, tweeting out "No Man's Sky was a mistake."
This obviously led to the tweet getting retweeted all over Twitter and a lot of confused, curious and other replies and questions to the account and Hello Games' Sean Murray. It was Murray who pointed out what some had already guessed - someone had hacked the Twitter account and was posting claiming to be Hello Games.
Server hacked. We're binging Mr Robot Episodes as quickly as we can looking for answers. Ep05 is a cracker
— Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) October 28, 2016
The interesting bit comes when you realise that the e-mail server had also apparantly been hacked into and e-mail replies being sent out to journalists' enquiries containing some really odd information. Polygon got one from someone claiming to be Murray saying that not only had he made the tweet, but that Hello Games had "not been coping well" since the game's release. There is some speculation that the hacker is a disgruntled employee or someone related to Hello Games who was using compromised accounts to access the e-mail server and send the messages, with both Forbes and mashable reporting that Murray has confirmed such to them.
It's not quite the tweet many were waiting for from the Hello Games Twitter, but at least it livened things up a bit. There could possibly even be more to this than we currently know about. Who knows? Maybe in the next few days someone will step forward to claim responsibility that will surprise us...
... Or maybe it'll turn out to be the work of a dissatisfied consumer. Who knows?
