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Calling Hello Games incompetent is pretty unfair and kind of petty.

I guess so, I do feel a little bad about it. On the other hand though, their faked E3 demo and Sean Murrey's enthusiastic IGN interview will go down in history as the easiest-to-avoid mistakes in the industry. They've done a good job at turning around their reputation by dedicating themselves to NMS, but it's still a shell of a promised game. Sorta like Star Citizen, if CIG ever had the gall to release their game.

> They've done a good job at turning around their reputation by dedicating themselves to NMS, but it's still a shell of a promised game.

Sidenote: I don't know about the last time you checked out NMS, but by now it has way more than what was originally promised. And not just in quantity, but in terms of actual qualitative features and things to do.

"Incompetent" is a charitable framing. Less charitibly they deliberately and blatantly lied in order to generate hype.

Not really. They did pretty well on delivering what they promised. The problem is that they started selling the game multiple years before it was ready. That's not incompetent development, and I would not say they blatantly lied when promising future features.

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