Shahid Kamal Ahmad, a former Sony Executive who recently went indie (he is now the Director of Ultimatum Games and working on an unannounced video game backed by Tesseract Interactive, according to his LinkedIn page), published a series of tweets yesterday defending Hello Games' Sean Murray.

　　As we all know, Murray and the development team as a whole received a significant backlash after the release of No Man's Sky. The highly anticipated indie game launched for PlayStation 4 and PC in August 2016 but after the initial hype, there was a tremendous amount of refund requests due to the game's unfulfilled promises.

　　The former Sony Executive, who worked as Senior Business Development Manager and Director of Strategic Content before leaving the company, defended Murray saying that he was "crucified by so many who don't know him" and that he has "more talent, vision, drive and termination than all the hateful mob together".

　　People jumping to conclusions about the character of a friend of mine and who threw him under the bus of their large audiences can fuck off.

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　And I think we all know exactly who I’m talking about. He told me about the update plan in 2013 and has stuck to his bargain.

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　Crucified by so many who don’t know him, he has more talent, vision, drive, determination and chutzpah than the entire hateful mob together

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　He then turned his attention to "turncoats", adding that Murray and the rest of Hello Games just kept working on No Man's Sky rather than doing vacations as pictured by some.

　　The people who really disappoint me are those who should know better and who just turned their backs.

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　The turncoats are scum. I’d rather be poor and disgraced than be a dirty back turning scumbag when a friend and colleague needs support.

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　It’s not like he or his colleagues were on holiday or buying cars and shit. They were *killing* themselves to make something new.

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　It seems like Ahmad was mostly referring to critics. These tweets embedded below, where he criticizes the new category of "unprofessional critics", are particularly telling.

　　On the Parkinson show years ago I heard Roger Moore say “Those can, do; those who can’t, teach; those who can do neither become critics” 1/2

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　I wonder what he would have made of the current generation of despicable trolls on the Internet who sent us to fascism in a hand basket? 2/2

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　I’m not naming anyone. The problem is not the criticism, but how uninformed and spiteful it all is.

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　me neither. My point was more about emphasising the new category of unprofessional “critics” who don’t deserve that mantle.

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　professional or otherwise formally trained journalists don’t make that category error

　　— Shahid Kamal Ahmad (@shahidkamal) November 27, 2016

　　This comes just after Hello Games released the massive Foundation 1.1 update for No Man's Sky. There are now three different rule sets to choose from: Normal mode is the one you're already accustomed to, while Creative Mode allows players to explore the universe without limits, and build a huge base; Survival mode, on the other hand, changes the game through a much more challenging "endurance experience".

　　According to Hello Games, this is just the first in a series of free updates coming to No Man's Sky. Did you try the Foundation update yet and if so, how much did it improve the game in your opinion?

　　Let us know in the comments.