No Man’s Sky Fans Use Developer’s Silence to Raise Charity Funds

Since the release of (over-)anticipated space exploration sim No Man’s Sky back in August, fans have been screaming into the ether over broken promises made by developer Hello Games, specifically by studio head Sean Murray. It has now been 90 days since Murray made a public statement – bar responding to a supposed hack, by which someone tweeted “No Man’s Sky was a mistake”, late last month – and the ire over his silence has been slowly building.

In an attempt to heal some of the perceived ‘toxicity’ surrounding the game’s fervent fanbase, the mods of the No Man’s Sky subreddit have arranged to turn Murray’s silence into a charity fundraiser.

Moderator BaRKy1911 writes:

“I’ve moderated this place for about a month now and whenever I hear people speaking about how ‘toxic’ this place is or anything like that it just comes across as wrong, we’ve got an awesome group of people here who are actually doing what they can with this game that was unfortunately very badly received because of the excessive deception. Seriously the people here are great. If we could take some of the anger and turn it into a good cause then we’re better than anybody who can claim this place to be ‘toxic’

So the other mods and myself have been speaking about having a fundraiser type deal where we raise money for charity. Since we just hit 90 days of 0 communication about the game I thought now is a great time. What I saw in a thread yesterday was somebody saying they would donate if Sean Murray didn’t speak by the 100th day, and that to me is silly because I doubt he will. He’s got your money and he’s probably gone for good, Sony NDA maybe, but I doubt it. Right now the charity the money will be going to is Cancer Research UK who do some amazing stuff. Their governance cost is 1% for those who care. We will be donating regardless of whether Sean Murray speaks or not.

Again we will be donating whether or not Sean Murray speaks. This is not us trying to threaten him, or anything of that matter.

So what I thought would be a good idea is we have the fundraiser, and if Sean doesn’t speak up by the 110th day, which is 20 days away, we’ll do something a bit more local, with the subreddit, instead of giving him any more ‘reasons’ to not speak again. I’ve set the goal to 500 pounds even though I think we’ll only hit like 100 or so at most. I’ll be putting in 20 pounds anyways. If you can’t donate then that’s obviously no problem, if you could share it, that would be amazing. It would be awesome if Sean Murray saw this.

Any donations are welcome, sharing is a form of donating too 🙂

Here’s the link: https://www.gofundme.com/JourneyAgainstCancer”

While the wording of the reddit post is a little confusing – the title cites Murray’s 90-day silence but insists that fundraising is independent of that silence continuing or not – the intention is certainly to be applauded.