PRoblem with reddit is the shitty subreddits tend to bleed into the other subreddits. ANd gaming subreddits in general have people from the shitkotakusays subreddit (or whatever it's called, pretty much gamergate's subreddit) all over beacuse that subreddit is full of people who like games (as witnessed by the fact they care, good or bad, about a gaming website). So they bleed into all the other gaming subreddits. Some of the subreddits are worse than others about it (the Fallout one seems to have less of them for whatever reason). And in general they usually aren't too focused anymore on the gamergate stuff unless it gets brought up. For example Kotaku saying something they don't like and then they come out of the woodwork. WHich is what is seems happened a lot in the NMS subreddit. Kotaku said something that upset NMS fans and the gamergate people saw Kotaku and a chance to attack them again. Which is why NMS looked pretty chill until Kotaku said something that upset hte fans and then the gamergate ones had a reason to be all shitty towards Kotaku again (and a reason to try to foment more resentment towards Kotaku).
I mean you could see it happening if you were on the subreddit a day or two ago. Kotaku says something and all the sudden you get the usual, "Oh, it's Kotaku. They're shit reporting/Click baiters/they're irresponsible game journalism!". You could tell a lot of comments were from the usual group that already hates Kotaku anyways and I give you 2 guesses which group that is....
New release date for NMS got finalised late last night. It's been a tough decision, but its the right one
We're happy with progress, but we need this time to make the game you guys deserve
We couldn't be working harder than we are right now
The Sony Blog post going live at 1am surprised us, but we wanted to let people know as soon as we could. Things are moving quite quickly
New dates apply for PC and PS4. We're running around trying to get all the official pages updated
Sorry I haven't been able to say anything til now. With retail games, there are legal/external reasons why you can't talk freely about dates
Thanks to everyone for being so supportive. Apologies to anyone who feels hurt by this. We'll try make it up to you with a good game
I have received loads of death threats this week, but don't worry, Hello Games now looks like the house from Home Alone #pillowfort
Tell me when its safe to remove the marbles and oil from the stairs. It's getting really cumbersome, and I need the toilet
New comments from Sean on Twitter:
New comments from Sean on Twitter:
New comments from Sean on Twitter:
Seeing how the new release date was decided last night I wonder how well it will hold off.
Hold off what? You think there will be another delay?
Sorry I haven't been able to say anything til now. With retail games, there are legal/external reasons why you can't talk freely about dates
They do leave it to the publisher a lot of times. Ubisoft is revealing a new IP this E3. Guess who could spoil it for just for shits and giggles if they wanted to?
But news is news. A hotly anticipated game being delayed is news. We see people posting all over GAF and other places across the internet saying how they already have scheduled time off work or planned to do so. His responsibility is to inform them, not wait around for Sony or Hello Games.
It's so strange to me that people get bothered when journalists go outside what publishers want them to do. The only harm and confusion inflicted here came not from Jason but from salty little manchildren with zero perspective on video games.
That hasnt been my experience at all, there are so many subreddits that making categorical statements about the entire population of the platform is laughable, especially when you maintain that the majority of the platform's users are racist, sexist paedophiles. It's like arguing that everyone who uses twitter is a racist, sexist paedophile.
Sean Murray ‏@NoMansSky 37s38 seconds ago
I have received loads of death threats this week, but don't worry, Hello Games now looks like the house from Home Alone #pillowfort
Well, at least they take it wellSean Murray ‏@NoMansSky 52s52 seconds ago
Tell me when its safe to remove the marbles and oil from the stairs. It's getting really cumbersome, and I need the toilet
So negative press delayed the game or am l missing something?
Serious or joking?So negative press delayed the game or am l missing something?
According to Sean's Twitter, the date wasn't finalized til late last night. Probably why they didn't say anything til then, they wanted a new date locked down before delivering the bad news
Did I say they all were? I said there is a group that tends to bleed into the other subreddits and when you hit one of their hot buttons they tend to come out pretty strong. Kotaku is mentioned, they hate Kotaku, they see a chance to get other people to hate Kotaku, they start yammering about how horrible Kotaku is especially as it's upsetting news to that subreddit and it means they can get more people to listen (oh, it's just a bad news site, this can't really be bad news, right?).
Man, they can't delay it any more. The more they show this at trade shows the more tired of it people will be. I'm already tired of it.
In terms of development, how much can actually be accomplished in a few weeks?
How is jason schreier so good?
How are Kotaku so good?
I still have no idea what the gameplay actually is.
I think it's insane that Sean received death threats. The game is his creation and he's very passionate about it. The one who did this must have a very twisted mind.
Someone said all of them were, I said no they all arent, you responded to my post by saying "PRoblem with reddit is the shitty subreddits tend to bleed into the other subreddits." So, as you referenced all of them I assumed that yes, you were in fact talking about all of them. Apparently you werent, sorry for misunderstanding.
I thought the dude from Kotaku is the one whose life and family were threatened with murder.
I thought the dude from Kotaku is the one whose life and family were threatened with murder.
Sean tweeted that he's "received loads of death threats this week". I don't understand how a game of this sort could attract people who would threaten the creator, but I guess they're in every fanbase.
Talk about pathetic.Sean tweeted that he's "received loads of death threats this week". I don't understand how a game of this sort could attract people who would threaten the creator, but I guess they're in every fanbase.
Sean tweeted that he's "received loads of death threats this week". I don't understand how a game of this sort could attract people who would threaten the creator, but I guess they're in every fanbase.
Talk about pathetic.
Holy fucking shit. What is wrong with people. I am stunned. At least he is taking it in stride. But this shouldn't be part of their development journey. Completely fucked
Who are these losers? Freaking worst. Ruins the community entirely. Death threats is absolutely insane. I hope they're just dumb kids at least.
Sean tweeted that he's "received loads of death threats this week". I don't understand how a game of this sort could attract people who would threaten the creator, but I guess they're in every fanbase.
Anybody who's sending death threats over a game's release date being pushed back deserves to be put in time out no matter how old they are.
I don't know if you're joking, but if not, you remind me of my 8 year old daughter that just refuses to listen to stuff no matter how many times she is told. Jeez
If joking, you got me good
I still maintain since it's so close to launch they could have at least warned us it wasn't coming out June 21rst and that there would be a few months maybe less (just so people get pleasantly surprised when they announce overestimate) delay. I'm sure they had an idea of around what time they needed so they could at least give a general idea to calm people down and let people who had plans around the launch date know ASAP that they needed to change/cancel them at least.