The recent fiasco surrounding Peter Molyneux and Godus has sparked worldwide media controversy as well as some outstanding reactions.
In his first major interview in over a year, Molyneux opens up about his legacy, his empathy for the 'No Man's Sky' team, and redefining himself.
I miss this crazy fool. Microsoft could use a game developer like Molyneux again.
He sure talked big about his games. As for them hitting the mark, at least he has an ambitious imagination. He walked the line of what is barely acceptable to promise to gamers without getting huge backlash. Unlike a certain game publisher with their procedurally generated universe.
Georgi Trenev writes: "What we are currently seeing could very well be described as a final push aimed at fixing the damage that has already been done, and only time will tell whether Godus Wars ends up being successful. But one thing’s for sure – you know things are bad when people are still giving you a tough time even after releasing a product for free."
I can't think of many other kickstarter that are a bigger disaster than this one.,oooh.
Godus has re-emerged as Godus War on Steam's Early Access, but this article questions whether it's too late for Molyneux to stage a comeback at this point.
It already is too late. He constantly lies and fails to implement all the features he boasts about on his games.
The guy seems to have an issue with failing to deliver on his promise when it comes to software
A visionary. A man of passion. I respect that.
But also the one individual who made too many promises that him and his team could not deliver. I feel bad for him, but he kinda brought it on himself over the years, and did not learn from his mistakes.
This guy over promises and under delivers. I don't care how good his past games were. He hasn't done anything as of late to make me excited even if he did announce a new project.
He constatnly over sells EVERYTHING and ehen the games don't turn out the way he promised, it's everyone else's fault.
So annoyed at this. I backed Godus, foolishly, and now I'm paying for it. :/
So many Devs go dark on Kickstarter.
I bought this game purely because I was a fan of games like Black and White and Godus looked like it could fit the bill. How disappointed I was when I heard about the games drama and broken promises :(
I feel really bad for the people that backed this project, but its one project in a thousand that have actually done what has promised. I hope this doesn't have too much of an impact on the funding of projects.
There seem to be a spate of Kickstarer projects where this kind of thing is going down, The Stomping Land being another one.
Gamers are often wary of the big studios but at the same time there are reasons why some companies succeed and others don't. And process is one of of those reasons.