Im not talking about Hype. Im talking about Crap.
Fallout 4 was hyped beyond belief, and of course they delivered a less than stellar experience. But at least the game itself was complete. You could play it and they had everything they promised to have,
yes, i get that. that's not what i'm saying.
look at it from the perspective of the developer. the game is in development, and the internet generates a massive hype. you KNOW you gonna make money, what do you do, start to downplay it, say that some features will probably never make it into the game? or do you ride the wave?
you need hype to sell. every product is hyped to some extent, some more and some less; you can't advertise a product as being "meh" and expect people to buy into it. they did what every other developer, or rather, what every other business does, and they just happened to be more successful than others, because *randomness of the internet* , because *spaceships are cool*, because *survival!*, so they did what every good company does when they are in this situation - they lied.
Come on, they are Hello Games, not EA, not Sony, not (other famous developer) but a small bunch of new developers who were already spending their earnings before the game was released, because they could not believe their luck as to what awesome results they got from the hype-o-matic 3000.
If you want to blame someone for the excessive hype, blame all the bloggers, youtube videos, videogame magazines, who make a living out of hyping every possible chunk of ... that comes across their desks and doesn't look the same way it smells.
I'm almost sorry for the guy, i might have lied too if i found myself in the same position; it's not easy when you feel that everyone has these great expectation off of you, to say "i'm not the guy";
And Steam is refunding everyone, so who cares. But really, making all this fuss about a developer who lied .. what about mass effect 3's endings? what about stalker, all three of them, being unplayable through crashes and save corruption? what about the tons of indie games who are completely broken ? what about the people who paid $20 for a Pay to Play, only to have it go F2P the next day? Man, the list goes on, with game over game over game of broken features, terrible optimization, incompetent coding, bugs, glitches, exploits, crashes, server overload, Battlefield's horrible netcode, Assassin's Creed's people falling through the geometry, Sony server crash, Batman's framerates, RAGE's textures, DUKE NUKEM!!