{"id":109493,"date":"2016-10-28T16:59:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=109493"},"modified":"2016-10-28T17:40:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T15:40:37","slug":"no-mans-sky-creator-breaks-silence-tweets-game-was-a-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109493-no-mans-sky-creator-breaks-silence-tweets-game-was-a-mistake","title":{"rendered":"No Man&#8217;s Sky creator breaks silence, tweets game was &#8216;a mistake&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No Man&#8217;s Sky developer Hello Games has finally broken its silence on the negative reception of its debut game, but not in the way anybody anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Hello Games sent out a tweet earlier today that simply stated: &#8220;No Man&#8217;s Sky was a mistake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet was quickly deleted, but not before thousands of followers replied and users were able to take screenshots.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109495\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/No-Mans-Sky-mistake.png\" alt=\"no-mans-sky-mistake\" width=\"364\" height=\"82\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello Games founder Sean Murray quickly tweeted that the server was hacked, and that\u00a0the team was quickly working to resolve the problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If anything was a mistake, it was using Linked In without 2FA.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoMansSky\/status\/792014031964037120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Server hacked. We&#39;re binging Mr Robot Episodes as quickly as we can looking for answers. Ep05 is a cracker<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sean Murray (@NoMansSky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoMansSky\/status\/792011018734010370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, several publications have received conflicting reports from Hello Games,\u00a0causing confusion as to the origin of the tweet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/erikkain\/2016\/10\/28\/that-mysterious-deleted-no-mans-sky-tweet-wasnt-a-hack\/#34c1015935ef\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Forbes<\/strong> <\/a>reports that the tweet was the work of a disgruntled employee and that the company was sorting out the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2016\/10\/28\/13453440\/no-man-sky-creator-game-was-a-mistake\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Polygon<\/strong> <\/a>reported that the tweet was from Murray himself, with the Hello Games founder stating that the team has not been coping well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tweet is from me, but somebody from the team took it down, we have not been coping well,\u201d said Murray to Polygon.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the Hello Games Twitter account was hacked or Murray sent out the tweet himself, at least the No Man&#8217;s Sky developer is talking for the first time in over 2 months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>\u00a0HelloGames\u00a0has said it is no longer hacked, but not before\u00a0a weird question from the No Man&#8217;s Sky account.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoMansSky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NoMansSky<\/a> 100% not hacked anymore&#8230; obviously those mails and that tweet were fake. Back to work \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hello Games (@hellogames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hellogames\/status\/792024895525949440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to 7 hilarious video game glitches and bugs\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/107609-7-hilarious-video-game-glitches-and-bugs.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">7 hilarious video game glitches and bugs<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Games has tweeted that &#8220;No Man&#8217;s Sky was a mistake&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":101456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681],"tags":[31,9422,23091,9463,23087,22281,11828,22279,23089],"class_list":["post-109493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-developer","tag-employee","tag-hacked","tag-mistake","tag-murray","tag-no-mans-sky","tag-sean","tag-tiwtter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109501,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109493\/revisions\/109501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}