‘No Man’s Sky’ Delayed Because Of ‘TV Broadcaster’

Corporations naturally have a deep, protective affection for any of their intellectual properties that they are making money with, and this tendency could be why the space sandbox game "No Man’s Sky" was delayed. Death threats have been issued by outraged fans of the title because of the delay, causing no small amount of concern for those who received said threats. After three years of legal dispute, a settlement with UK’s ‘Sky TV” has left “Hello Games” free to use the word “Sky” in the title of their game.

This secret controversy has apparently been going on for the better part of three years, with the UK TV station pressuring the indie game studio to change the name of their game. “Sky TV” owns the rights to the word “Sky” and they were not about to let anyone just use it without their say so. The last major brand that learned this the hard way was “Microsoft,” and as Slashgear noted via the Tweets by the studio’s founder Sean Murray, “Hello Games” was well aware of this fact.

The issue did not sit well with many video game enthusiasts, with Tech Times calling the issue “stupid nonsense,” and it’s not hard to see why. Being forced to change the name could have been disastrous for the game studio for several reasons.

For one thing, “No Man’s Sky” is the name gamers have attached to the title and the studio would have had a hard time coming up with another one that would connect to players on the same level. In all likelihood, a name change could have led to yet another delay, and this would have caused even more outrage.

It would also have added yet another problem that the studio has to deal with on top of power outages and floods. Either the universe is against “Hello Games” releasing “No Man’s Sky” or the company is just hit a streak of bad luck.