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The folks you refer to as Gamers exist in every following of anything that is produced these days. Whether it's games, films, music, whatever. There'll always be a bunch of over-opinionated know-it-alls critising and putting down every aspect of it they can find.
It's a mistake to lump those who have negative opinions on the piece in question in with people like that.
Scope creep is perfectly natural and happens all the time, I understand that. Not hitting stretch targets is normal, and to be expected, by definition.
Like you say, the guy running the project often doesn't get the technical nuances of what's going on and can say something that's misleading and/or incorrect. Sean Murphy is not one of those people however. Being an ex-developer & technical lead for previous games kind of rules him out of that.
I'm not saying it's a conspiracy either, I'll hold my hand up and admit to feeling that he purposely dodged giving a direct answer to questions regarding multiplayer in order to keep the hype-train rolling though.
People who say the "hate" Sean Murray are, I agree, quite OTT. And it's not behaviour that should in any way be condoned.
I don't understand why people who haven't bought the game can't have negative feelings about it though.
Am I right to assume that we're on the same page regarding most things aside from believing that he mislead people into thinking there's multiplayer in NMS?
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Am I right to assume that we're on the same page regarding most things aside from believing that he mislead people into thinking there's multiplayer in NMS?
Pretty much. I've not seen much evidence for direct misleading, more like not being 100% clear when a mic is shoved in your face and / or being broadcast live in front of a million people. Which I think is understandable.
ReekBlefs
Oh don't get me wrong, I also think that media critics should be unbiased. But that's not what I'm seeing. I'm seeing a bunch of Gamers (not people who game, as I am, but people who culturally identify as Gamers) get absolutely frothing at the mouth at perfectly normal scope creep. I work in IT, I know what it's like when a large project is underway, and sometimes you don't hit your stretch targets, and sometimes the guy running the project doesn't get all the nuances of what the tech guys tell him. It's perfectly normal, especially when you're having to do international press that you're not prepared for, that you won't be on message 100% of the time. That doesn't mean someone lied, it's not a big conspiracy, and it's certainly not something to get pissed off about, ESPECIALLY if you've not bought the game. That guy Sean Murray is coming in for real hatred and I think it's way OTT.
This guy below is a parody but he's not far off some of the stuff that I've seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPzOEKjYW4Y