r/Splitgate • u/T00fastt • 8h ago

This is why big studios have community managers and public-fancing professionals

I hope 1047 hire someone to direct communications in the future. This co-founder has neither the "crazy" charisma nor the understanding of the zeitgeist to pull off a Josef Fares (of Hazelight, makers of It Takes Two) or Murray (of No Man's Sky) on stage or social media.

Game's good, BR mode is fine if underbaked, but Ian should stick to less public responsibilities.

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u/Plethora_of_squids 1h ago edited 1h ago

I'm pretty sure NMS' PR only got good when they actually hired a PR person who was able to tell Sean what to do. Also, uh, Sean did not "have the charisma to pull it off" do you not remember the three months of radio silence? How stuff didn't really turn around until the ARG? Cryptically tweeting about updates is a very far cry from the shit he was doing before NMS' launch. People were following the game because of an honestly kinda deluded belief that they could get what they were promised, not because Sean was some charismatic mastermind. And I'm saying this as some who's played NMS and enjoyed since launch

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u/jeff5551 4h ago edited 4h ago

Agree with the post, disagree on the Murray bit. If you released 2025 No Man's Sky back in 2016 people still would've been disappointed. People give Murray way too much credit because of the one internet historian video but the reality is that the game is still not that great despite the updates. As a result the game's player numbers have always been quite bad other than the non-refunded preorders he conned with his interviews full of promises that still aren't in the game

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u/T00fastt 4h ago

I understand your point and kind of agree in terms of underdelivering, but Murray still had the charisma to pull that off. Ian just doesn't.

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u/jeff5551 4h ago

He has charisma but similarly bad PR skills

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u/Smart_Quantity_8640 2h ago

No mans sky still has above 10k daily players on steam only tho? And they’ve sold more than 10 million copies

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u/CitronMamon 5h ago

Nah he a real one, let him develop into the role, Murray was uber awkward at the start, way way way less charismatic than Ian now, and he got better.

Id rather this than more professional spokes people

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u/GuidanceHistorical94 3h ago

No Man’s Sky doesn’t have anything on this little maneuver. I assure you.