Peter Molyneux has angered some of the 17,000 backers who pledged money to fund his Godus game because it will include pay-to-win gems when the original crowd funding pitch made no mention of microtransactions.
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.
Bring him to PlayStation and do a spiritual Successor to Fable. PlayStation will fund the game and give full creative control over the game.
only with the exception where he doesn't over sale and not deliver like he did with Fable 1-3
Yea he had part in some neat games, (fable, black and white) but i think all im gonna remember him for was his pre-fable 2 interview.
"You dont control the dog, the dog acts on its own." Feel like that was the most proud hes ever been about a feature in his game. "You dont control the dog" kinda funny
Yeah the time where people got excited about Peter's promises is long long gone. He has to deliver...
Knowing Molyneux, this talk about regrets might be another one of his promises he's not gonna fulfill.
I want a new Populus game for the new generation. Played that game to death on the Genesis. It's too bad that Peter's ambitions always seemed to exceed his final product. He always had big dreams though.
I miss this crazy fool. Microsoft could use a game developer like Molyneux again.
Dude, you really should get a life. No matter what developer comes on board, you'll find some way to make it out as a bad thing. Save some of that surplus of criticism for things that really matter, you know things like Donald Trump.
Whaaa. Im just saying they dont show a lot of movement in terms of first party. If we all sit back and dont say nothing, it will continue to be that way.
No, just need to loosen the reigns - a lot. Realize that not everything needs to be online so as to need a paying sub just to access.
@omega
Actually, thinking on it, maybe you could name one high profile game designer that works for Microsoft?
Without a google search.
There's a reason that high profile game designers become high profile....it's usually because they make some rather iconic, impressive, or innovative games.
MS is literally in the shape they're in because of this guy. Especially regarding Kinect.
So he wasn't in charge of Kinect game development at one point? Never delivered with Milo?
That was Kudo and Don Mattrik. They pushed the motion gimmicks and Molyneux simply believed in the project enough to stage a phony demo as proof of concept.
The only other notable instance of him ruining Xbox was that completely on the rails Fable that he argued and had 50 idiots from gaming media to sign their names stating the game wasn't on the rails.
While I do believe Kate and Milo sold a dream to millions (many of whom still argue the potential for Kinect), at that point in Xbox history the Kinect was entirely optional.
He has zero to do with Forced Kinect, DRM, no used games, and all of that deal from the Xbox launch and he certainly doesn't have anything to do with Phil's mission to gut the Xbox one of all exclusives
@InTheLab:
How as the face of Kinect is the man as if not more culpable? By all counts he had skill and resources in excess to deliver Milo, but instead held up an empty example expecting 3rd parties to do as well if not better? And since, apparent grand tradition of overselling and at some point walking back, shareholders bought something yet to be proven never to actually work as Mattrick only saw the money to be made through watching XB1 owners, how was Molyneux and Milo not responsible for Kinect being mandatory on the next system?
The XB1 was built around Kinect, Kinect never worked as advertised, effectively crippled the XB1, and that's on Molyneux and a proof of concept.
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.
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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.
I really don't think he even deserves the respect of being called a visionary.
As it turns out, "delusional" is a much better word to describe the man.
Completely disagree.
Nowadays, he is not a visionary, but he pioneered some really cool concepts back in the day and had charm to his words that followed through and delivered on them in pretty great ways. He simply got carried away as time went on with his excitement for concepts he thought would lead the way, and would be conceivable on the budget and time constraints his team were given.
Populous was the only game that could really be considered "visionary," and even then, despite what many people claim, at it's core it was still just an evolution of similar games that came before it.
In fact the more "visionary" the man got in his career, the more ridiculous and completely unrealistic his promises became...hence...delusional.
Either way, though, I don't mean to belittle the quality of his earlier work. I just meant to suggest that even fools get lucky every now and then.
He's sort of like the George Lucas of the video game industry, if you ask me.
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.
I'd be pissed too...
So, people are mad that you can buy in-game currency with real-world money?
Shocker.
Honestly, you're not going to find many non-AAA games these days that don't offer some sort of in-app purchasing options. It's a fantastic business model and is part of the reason we're in the middle of an indie renaissance.
If you don't want pay for extras in a game, don't. But you shouldn't condemn those who do.
He's such a fraud, how is he still in this industry
This guy seems like such a pompous dickhead; I really don't get why anyone listens to him anymore. I'd be pissed if I funded the Godus kickstarter too!
I'm glad I didn't back this project. When it was first announced it sounded like a successor to Populous. It slowly became something else as the project moved forward.