1 There's no excuse for the extreme behavior seen by gamers. We all know how ugly they can get, and there's never any excuse for that kind of behavior.

2 Murray does need to shoulder blame. He lied, plain and simple. You can say people should've done research and you can say it's people's fault they didn't get what was expected, but at the end of the day nothing justifies his deceit. There are people who scam on eBay by putting a pound note upside down and claiming it as rare. Just because people don't do their due diligence and fall for the scam doesn't mean it's all their fault. If a person lies, regardless of whether someone was dumb enough to fall for it, they are to blame for acting deceitfully. And he lied. All the sugar coating in the world can't hide the fact.. And it wasn't just one thing to where you could argue it wasn't unintentional- it was multiple lies concerning multiple things.

3 A simple apology acknowledging his mistake, along with a commitment to update the game to the best of their ability to at least add some of these features promised, would go a long ways in people moving on. The game was never going to be so much more amazing then it turned out. But its the principle of the matter. And I think people wouldn't be so hostile if they saw a clear effort on the developers part to make things right. If they did this, then anyone harboring discontent would definitely need to let it go.

4 This looks like he was in despair, tweeted out and even responded by email, then backtracked and came up with a lame excuse. And then sent out long wordy emails to gaming sites to prop up the hack story and make it seem real. @rjejr Your theory is dead on. I'm not buying this for a second. Like you said, if he was still hacked then how was the email removed? And why did the first email confirm it was him in a short email, but then after the whole "we got hacked" excuse, long wordy emails were conveniently sent out to other publications making it a little too obvious.

The guy was sulking in his corner, tweeted it was a mistake, confirmed tweet via email, then whether by the team convincing him or buy a sudden stroke of clarity he decides this could be bad press, and then creates a scapegoat by quickly sending out lengthy, overtly obvious emails pretending to be hacked to prop up the story, and then tweets "are you guys still hacked" to prop it up further.

You don't need to be all that bright- even Inspector Gadget could figure out what's going on here.