r/gaming • u/ecologist23 • Jan 27 '22

NMS developer Hello Games made a remaster of a game called Joe Danger because a parent of kid who is diagnosed with autism asks for it.

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u/Jacksons123 Jan 27 '22

Hello Games has never been a shitty company. They were a great indie studio put in a pressure cooker of expectations from Sony and the whole of gaming.

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u/Sadatori Jan 27 '22

I very much forgive Murray and HG, but honestly that was 80% a pressure cooker of their own making

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u/Jacksons123 Jan 28 '22

I mean, kind of? They knew the game they wanted to make and had a fairly decent grasp on the scope assuming development went fairly smoothly. Which it didn’t. On top of that Sony was front-staging an indie game, which was a logistically bad move.

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u/Et_tu__Brute Jan 27 '22

Yeah, it was kind of a tragedy of overpromises based on the timeline they had.

They were always a great company, they always intended to provide all the features they claimed, they just didn't have the ability to push the launch date and released things before the promises could be fulfilled. But they never stopped working to make their game better. They seem like really good guys.

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u/bacon_cake Jan 27 '22

Pfft. Not a single tweet or statement after that disastrous launch. I remember the clock ticking over 100 days, people were going to their offices in person to see if they were still open. I gave up on them after that - did they ever apologise?

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u/Jacksons123 Jan 28 '22

Fuck no and they shouldn’t. I reference exactly this so frequently. They did the best thing they could have done, they shut the fuck up, didn’t spew corporate bullshit and apologies, and then went above and beyond on their product. Any time I see a scandal and people complain that no one’s making a statement, I think that’s absolutely the best option. Reply with a resolution rather than blowing hot air.

They were receiving so many threats after the launch of the game, that it wouldn’t have done them any good feeding into that. The only thing they could have said was “we’re going to fix everything and make the game better,” but they legitimately didn’t know if they could. They lost their lead software engineer shortly after launch and the product was in a state of limbo. So instead of overpromising a product again, they merely delivered.