Hello, Sean Murray from Hello Games here, working extremely hard on our game, No Man’s Sky.
The game really has come together, and it’s such an incredible relief. As we sit an play it now, and as I watch playtesters every day, I can finally let myself get excited. We’re actually doing this.
However, as we approached our final deadlines, we realized that some key moments needed extra polish to bring them up to our standards. I have had to make the tough choice to delay the game for a few weeks to allow us to deliver something special.
After a short delay, No Man’s Sky will launch in North America on August 9, in Europe August 10, and in the UK August 12.
We understand that this news is disappointing. Making this game is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, but we are so close now, and we’re prepared to make the tough choices to get it right.
The universe of No Man’s Sky is incredibly vast. More than you can imagine. This is a type of game that hasn’t been attempted before, by a smaller team than anyone would expect, under an intense amount of expectation.
And despite all of that, development is genuinely going well. This is the hardest working, most talented team I’ve ever worked with, and I’m so proud of what we’re doing. For all our sakes though, we get one shot to make this game and we can’t mess it up.
To the loyal community who’s stuck by our side since the unveiling of No Man’s Sky years ago, we hope you’ll accept our sincere apology and I am humbly asking that you’ll still look forward to exploring our universe despite the slight delay.
Thank you so much,
Sean
Noice! Looking forward to it!
Take your time and release it when it’s done, all of us will be patiently waiting for the new release date.
Sad to hear this but August isn’t that far away
2 months, really 2 months!!! Just give me the game now I be happy to test it. I booked time off, I bought equipment to make YouTube videos. You have had 6 years. I am seriously miffed.
Thank you for making my depression worse.
A delayed game is eventually a good game :D
Hello Games, take your time! A game this masterful deserves the extra attention however, maybe give the Playstation Access guys and gals another gameplay demo of something we haven’t seen! Till then I’ll see you in the center!
Maybe can you give us a demo
When will we be getting our pre order refund?
GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER I PREORDERED NMS A MONTH BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE BUT IT’S OKAY THANK YOU FOR SCREWING ME OVER AND PUTTING FALSE HOPE IN THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD WHAT A SERIOUS LET DOWN. NOT TO MENTION THIS GAME WAS SUPPOSED TO BE RELEASED IN 2015 BUT IT’S OKAY F*** YOU GOODBYE.
Quit crying about a delay you entitled jerks.
Sean Murray
Grant Duncan
Ryan Doyle
David Ream
Aaron Andrews
Gareth Bourn
Simon Carter
Harry Denholm
Jake Golding
Beau Lamb
Hazel McKendrick
Levi Naess
Matthew Reynolds
Charlie Tangora
Suzy Wallace
According to the hello games website, this is their team. While many will run out of fingers counting, most will not run out of toes. You guys gotta expect delays when you’re working with teams under 20-30 people. Heck you have to expect delays when you’re working with teams over 30 people.
Expect servers to not work on online games for the first week maybe 2 as people hammer the servers, expect games to get delayed, like this is stuff that happens every couple of months, on a regular basis for decades… How have people not seen these regular occurrences, and just expected them to be a possibility by now?
+ BRAVO_SIX98
Well people, I found the immature 10 yr old.
To the rest of the Hello Games Team, I look forward to the release. I am excited to see the game. This delay will allow me to save up more money and snag one of those new 1080 GTX G-cards. Oh Yeah.
So if we pre ordered it we still get the game at no extra cost right? I’m not upset about the delay as much as I would be if I had to buy it again.
Kept up the good work, release a playable demo while people wait
I’m still excited for the game but this is a big screw over as you’ve delayed so many times and I’m really considering cancelling my pre order trust me you’ve made a mistake you should release the game in June and make a update after for what you was going to be doing !
Why the extra delay for the UK??:
Lol, +kingcrute88 I don’t think you can blame Hello Games for your depression. Clearly you’re depressed because you take life WAY to seriously. It’s a game for Christ sake. You’ve waited this long, in an extra few weeks REALLY that much of a hardship.
Guaranteed, all the people complaining about the delay would crucify Hello Games if they’d released the game and it wasn’t working.
Take as much time as you need my friend! I am absolutely fascinated with this game, and can’t imagine how difficult it is to work on something so ambitious. Can’t wait!
I’m not trippin. I’ve been onboard since day one, and will continue to be. No Man’s Sky is gonna be a great game. You are changing the course of the gaming industry. And I can’t wait to look forward to other procedural generated games you have in the back of your remarkable mind. Keep up the good work home boi!
P.S don’t sell your procedural generation game engine to NO ONE! THEY WILL RUIN YOUR WORK!
That’s fine no worries however I hope there won’t be a price increase of the game as £49.99 I’d a respectable price as it currently stands
2months are you kidding me at least give us a demo
+ BRAVO_SIX98
Are you for real?
A video game being delayed makes you this angry.
Oh deary me.
Thanks for the honesty, me and my friends are realy looking forward to play your game, please take the time needed to make it awesome, broken games are never interesting for long.
I’m in agreement with the hello game team. You guys sitting here pissing and moaning need to really relax. Some of the best games I’ve ever played had been delayed for years. So to everyone at Hello Games working on this project thank you. Thank you for having the passion and drive to be willing to wait until the game is at the point that you want before releasing it. I am happily looking forward to it and if for some reason there was more delays. I would still be happily looking forward to it. thank you for taking the time it needs.
In a time when most publishers decide to launch (or are forced to launch due to external/publisher pressures) before a game is truly ready, I applaud you in taking a deciding action of this kind. Not only that, but how rare is it to be allowed to delay games nowadays? I, for one, am excited by this game and any reasonable delays are celebratory in my book. Good on you, Hello Games! Much respect and can’t wait to play No Man’s Sky!
I know how it is. Being a musician, I’ve worked hard on one of my songs and listened to it over and over. There where a few KEY parts that wasn’t clicking with me. HINT, HINT. It had to do with a keyboard part! Then one evening it just came to me and it’s the best decision I’ve ever made! This song just hits at a certain part that changes before the solo! Like Sean playing his game over and over he realized, you only get one chance to make a first impression! I know how he feels. Releasing his game, his baby to the world, on June the 21, knowing certain parts aren’t just right. He would be kicking himself in the ass after the fact. This is how artists work. And he and his crew are true artists and it will show!! To Sean, I know you will knock this one out of the park!
Not happy about the push back. Had some vacation time that worked out perfectly with the June date. All pre ordered and ready to go. I think that they should do something nice for those that have all ready have the game paid for like upgrade us to the legendary package for free. Just my thoughts I am looking forward to playing.
I can’t tell you how excited I am to play! Sean, you’re actually making my dreams of exploring space and it’s unknown true. I can’t wait!
I’m
fine with this so as long as I don’t have to buy the game again .
To everyone saying “cancel your pre-order, you won’t be missed.” Is the flat out dumbest response ever. Games with this many delays rarely deliver, and while 1 canceled pre-order may bit hurt, 100k+ will, and I have canceled. I’ll take the wait and see approach. I refuse to dump money into a failure, I’m take too grown, and lived through the LJN Nintendo days of garbage afyer garbage, I don’t need to repeat that. This screams Spore all over again. I’ll find out about 2 weeks after launch, just like I did with The Division. That game was so broken, and lame it’s an epic failure, and I didn’t get suckered out of $100 like all my idiot friends who haven’t played it on weeks.
my man, my brother, my fellow traveler, you in particular but also i well imagine everyone on your team, are the very epitomy of what makes me glad to be a gamer, a lover of sci fi, an explorer of virtual worlds and experiences ive not yet seen. despite anyones understandable (to a degree, a small degree at that) dissapointment, what is penultimate here is that this incredible, original, absurdly ambitious new experience the likes of which i could not have imagined as i grew up devouring heinlien, asimov, bradbury, hoyle, clark, dick (ya ya, ha ha), saberhagen, niven, varley, pohl, brinn, benford, bear, (christ the list could obviously go on, sorry for that), is everything you hoped it would be. at that point it will be what we are all so excited for, and any sooner would simply be the real dissapointment that the believers would be most bothered by. take whatever time you need to deliver this universe. i think a little more waiting is the least we can do as fans, to equal what you are expecting of yourself, your team, and this new experience. ivs got far harbor for now so ive got time. word.
Very gutted because I planned my holiday around the release and have been waiting for ever, but glad there taking the time to get everything perfect. Just please please don’t let go under!
While I appreciate a sincere apology, I am also sincerely hoping that this is the final change of any kind to the release date, if so, apology accepted. If you by chance ever need more people to playtest, who are more than qualified, I’m sure you won’t have any trouble finding willing participants ;)
You guys who are being supportive of this are way too forgiving. In no other industry is this acceptable at least not to the extent that it has permeated the video games industry.
There comes a point where you can’t even identify let alone fix even the major bugs in each new version you compile.
It’s been like 6 years this guy needs to release it already.
Stop quoting Miyazaki too, he’s unique. He’s got the focus and drive to make his games good and knows when to delay. Sean isn’t Miyazaki. Nobody else is, not everyone is a genius auteur.
This behavior needs to stop and his publisher needs to Crack the whip and force him to release.
Glad Im not hyped for this just commenting on the situation.
Some absolutely entitled, childish little idiots here. A small team building something that has never been done before with 0 load times and you get all irritable about a month!? To the guy claiming he was gonna post YouTube videos literally nobody gives a damn nor would watch them. Sean, you shouldn’t have given dates to this 0 patience, fast cut, new generation. In future, just say “when it’s ready”. Thanks for making my 80s childhood, sci if book cover fantasies an imminent reality. Much respect to you all. Most of us understand and wouldn’t be able to make this ourselves even if we wanted to.
Its understandable but disappointing. We all know you guys are working hard and I dont blame you at all, Ide rather you guys make it right rather than rush it. But a short playable demo would be great. Seriously if at all possible please release one.
I really don’t mind waiting another 3 months, but question is, when will NMS be released in ASIA
Well for us who start working basicly 200% this summer 9 weeks straight (for me it starts the last week of june) hoped to atleast get to play the game a bit before intense work starts… but sadly now I wont have the chance to play it before the end of august… If I knew it would have been delayed again I wouldn’t have pre ordered it.
Was really excited for this game, the hype is kinda lowered at this point. I would have played the game how it was when gameplay was released. And there is a reason game updating was invented, it was kinda to prevent delaying and fix bugs after release. They could have released the game to the intended date, and then release patches and updates to fix and add what they have delayed the game to fix and add. Every game has huge updates days or weeks after launch anyway.
let’s be honest that you should have given yourself more enough time for the release and if you got done early than release it early so you don’t get death threats. Anyhow, I for one am extremely disappointed and I hope you guys figure out how to make it up to all the fans of this game who have been waiting patiently for 6 years.
When will it be back up in the playstation store? I was going to pre order when I got paid, but it yas been taken off the store since then. Any info would be great.
I’m fine with the delay I was just excited that it was coming out during the summer. Im a junior in high school and I go back to school the day after it is releases. I guess I have one day to play and then wait for the glorious weekends.
I’m glad we’re getting a triple a game in dog days of summer
Don’t worry about the delay you are working on a truly remarkable game with such a small team and its good to see a development team that understands the community and isn’t just in it for the money great work guys at hello games keep it up
Was looking foreward to this game until they moved it back, and now taking my preorder and getting final fantasy.
I suggest others do the same, we gave them plenty of time and not even a beta.
So thanks hello games but no thanks you jad your chance and nnw square gets my money and you lost out.
Man!!!!! This is the most disappointing news ive gotten this year!!!! Ive been waiting for this game since the talk about it first coming out. It looks great when i see you guys play it, i tgink everybody would ve happy with it for the 21st date which i had preordered it for. I know you want it to be perfect, but evdryone knows that there is just going to be updates anyways. No games have gotten around that, if you manage to do that then the 2 extra months is worth it. If not , then you should just stick with June 21st , seriously. It will be a great start to the summer if it comes out on the original date.