NowGamer: First information reveals cloud, Facebook integration in the next game from development legend Peter Molyeux.
Unity has announced the appointment of its new CEO, and it's another former EA exec in the form of ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg.
Project currently codenamed MOAT.
"It’s between him and Phil. I’d vote Phil"
If Phil were the man that made my life miserable, I would vote for him as well.
Regarding the topic, it could be both Peter and Phil working together.
M.O.A.T takes place in Albion, so it´s possible that Pete is working on new partnership with Xbox, which imo, is nothing but great news!
What exactly has Phil mislead about? I can’t wait to hear the verbal diarrhea you come with.
If anyone knows his name you have to be extremely skeptical that what he delivers will be anything like what he says it would be and that’s best case scenario.
I remember Black & White (PC) but other than that I can only think of Fable, B&W was a pretty cool game tho at the time.
Populous was another one designed by Peter, released before B&W, godlike game as well, pretty good too.
"His name is still used as a selling point for new games? Seriously?"
The guy is a gaming legend for gamers who actually knows and played his games, like Dungeon Keeper, Populous, Black & White and Fable for example.
I'm certain that most who actually know who he is would contest your use of legend. He's the living, human embodiment of false advertising.
@Becuzisaid
There´s an abyss between false advertisement and bad games.
Most gamers will get excited for games from great gaming creators rather than focus on their exaggerated promises.
Kojima described his Xbox exclusive game as "very unusual like no one has ever experienced before, leveraging the cloud." He said all publishers he presented the project, called him mad and rejected his game but Microsoft, because it´s too crazy.
Is Kojima exaggerating? Obviously. It´s gonna be a bad game? Hardly.
Imagine a game where Peter Molyneux presents an extraordinary set of ideas that players will enjoy for years to come. Now imagine that this particular game will come out because it will never exist.
You know for an engine called Unity, it sure does keep alienating and distancing developers left and right. In their latest misguided attempt to nickel and dime their customers, Unity has decided that they will start charging developers everytime someone installs a game.
Understandably, this has left developers seriously perplexed. Basically, with what Unity is proposing, it means that bad actors can now just mass install and reinstall games in order to financially cripple a company. It’s like Unity looked at review bombing and asked itself “How can I make something like that even worse?”
Live-action Looney Tunes moment, for once I'd love to be a fly on the wall for this entire greed convo honestly, who the fuck says let's charge these developers PER install so I could just be edgy and uninstall/install.
Like Geoff says, what a joke.
Including all the legacy titles that have used the engine.
This has to be one of the most blatant and disgusting corporate greed move I've ever heard off.
Even if unity backtrack on the decision which they will, if I was a dev I'd never the engine again.
Yep, I agree with the article that if they are going to do something like this today what will they do tomorrow. Figures that the CEO is from EA's greediest time too
I've jumped ship to Unreal late last year, despite many people telling me that Unity was much better suited for the scale and budget of my project. Best decision I've made.
The CEO of Unity is an idiot and the writing was on the wall that he's gonna do something incredibly stupid like this sooner or later. I feel for the developers that are too far along in their project too migrate to another engine.
With the scale of the current backlash I can't see them going through with it in this current form, but even if they backpedal now, the trust in the leadership is probably irreparably damaged. At least it should be.
Just wait. I'm sure we'll see articles today written up about how this is a smart move.
lol yep
https://x.com/tkexpress11/s...
People all over the place with this, some want to stay, some don't sounds like a divide to me
Right on character for john riccitiello to find new scummy ways to squeeze the industry
hehe I had a small case of the giggles when I read the title.
OK *Slaps self* now I can red the article...
'New form of digital entertainment'
He really likes to talk big game doesn't he? Love the guy, but he gets overly excited a lot of the time.
Surely @petermolydeux is going for a job here?
Don't like the sound of Facebook integration, although other AAA games have done it without too much intrusion.