In the world of video game industry, quality is often ignored. Game companies keep pumping sequels. DLCs, micro transactions, expensive buy-outs, and expensive price tags are the things that ruined gaming as a whole. But one such gaming company that redeemed them selves by updating its game and that is hello games company.
Hello games is a gaming company famously known for making No man’s sky. No man’s sky was an over hyped piece of crap but don’t get me wrong though, No man’s sky has improved over the past few years. The earlier versions of No man’s sky is riddled with game bugs and glitches. The reason behind this massive train hype is that the lead team design Todd didn’t have the courage to say “no”.
The history of hello games
Hello games was founded by a british guy named Todd. Todd was working for EA and he decided to abandon EA to found his own gaming company. Of course these kinds of actions could be easily tolerated because game companies these days are total jerks when it comes to providing game dev’s with good work ethic. It was a risky decision but in the end, Todd made it out alive. Todd also recruit his friends from EA to his newly found company. Hello games started to develop some games for the Xbox platform. Their first game was Danger Joe.
Danger Joe became a smash hit on the Xbox. The ratings on danger Joe is pretty high, considering the fact that danger Joe is such a simple game. Hello games also released the following sequel to Danger Joe called Danger Joe 2 but it didn’t succeed the way they expected it to be. Hello games don’t want to pump out more sequels like the big players of the gaming industry because gamers will get sick of their games, this is something that the big gaming industry has been fallen for.
So tthey needed an idea, one that is so fresh and new that it will blew people away. The answer is simple: No man’s sky.
No man’s sky in development
After they found their idea, they released a trailer for the game. When Todd was interviewed about the game, Todd says that every single exiting things people hoped for the game will be there in No man’s sky. Sound incredible? You bet. Now this is the first and the most fatal mistake Todd ever made. The mistake that Todd did is that the inability to reject request.
As time went on the team at Hello games started their development. Todd expand his team from only consist of small numbers of people to a bit bigger set of people. But Todd is about to face his nightmares very soon enough.
First, the flood. Their office was blooded on Britain. It was a major disaster but thankfully the laptops are fine and the rest of their projects is still in tact. Second, the suing grounds. Sky, an American TV cable company is suing Hello games for copyright infringement. The reason was that Hello games is using their name which is ******g stupid because Sky is a very common name. Third, the leaks. Som people already bought the game and sell it out on eBay. They reportedly published a clip of them playing the unreleased No man’s sky.
The aftermath of no man’s sky
All of these problems are tough but Hello games still stood tall despite the chances. When No man’s sky was released, it was full of bugs. Not to mentioned, everything that Todd had promised was not in the game. This is a major blow to Hello games. But months later, things are starting to improve. Hello games released patches, updates, and has improved the game as a whole. Not only that but the game it self has exceeded public expectations about the game
This just goes to show that even if people hate you for your mistakes, there is still time and room for you to to make an improvement.