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FOR GODUS SAKE - Molyneux Accused of Over-Promising

11/2/2015

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Picture"This is very heavy. And I need a poo."
Industry veteran Peter Molyneux has gained something of a reputation for over-promising.  

Not so much The Boy Who Cried Wolf as The Man Who Cried That There's A Friendly Wolf Who Lives In The Forest Who Dispenses Free Chupa-Chups From A Flesh Hatch In His Stomach And If You Rub His Head A Rainbow Shoots Out Of His Mouth, 11 years ago he famously apologised after his highly anticipated RPG Fable was released without many of the features he'd promised.

However, the man who once described himself in a Kotaku interview as "a terrible PR person", may have finally made a few promises too far.

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Three years ago, Molyneux started an ultimately successful Kickstarter campaign for Godus - his return to the god genre that he helped create. 

However, earlier this week, one of the game's lead designers, Konrad Naszynski, took to the game's message boards to state that he didn't feel many of the features promised in the Kickstarter campaign would ever be implemented, expressing his frustration with the development process.

He blerped: “To be brutally candid and realistic I simply can't see us delivering all the features promised on the Kickstarter page, a lot of the multiplayer stuff is looking seriously shaky right now especially the persistent stuff like hubworld.”

Suffice to say, Godus's Kickstarter backers - already having had their patience tested by delays, a heavily-criticised freemium mobile version of the game, and Molyneux's apparent decision to shift focus to a new project, The Trial - went into meltdown. 

Digitiser 2000's take? We think it unlikely that Molyneux is evil. He's most likely well-intentioned, and no doubt believes his own lofty ambitions at the time. And yes, he should probably be kept well away from interviews. And in this instance was probably sucked in by the temptation to over-promise, due to the desperate necessity to reach Godus's Kickstarter funding goals. 

But - hey - you can make up your own mind with the video below, in which Molyneux and Naszynski address the controversy head-on, while doing their best not to squirm.

8 Comments
Antony Adler
11/2/2015 10:09:13 am

i love this story and the video's hilarious. I guess when he started doing a new title, the game was literally up.

What a charlatan.

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Mr Rash
11/2/2015 10:18:52 am

I used to love him, I used to think that one day he would redeem himself, now it's clear that Jimmy Savile can't ever do that. Wait, what were we talking about?

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Mr Drinks
11/2/2015 11:13:09 am

It's even worse when you read Eurogamer's interview with the guy who "won" Suspicious Box or whatever it was called, he got absolutely nothing out of it other than being forced to play an early version of Godus for THREE HOURS.

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dan de la peche
11/2/2015 01:24:09 pm

It's funny, I read about all the hoo-hah, then thought "I wonder what happened to that chap", and lo and behold, there he was on Eurogamer.

22Cans appear to have treated him like a disposable piece of advertising blather! Who would've thought that would come to pass?

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FEoD link
12/2/2015 12:12:44 am

I used to love Lying Pete's output during the Bullfrog era, but I would not trust him to bring my milk in from the front door for year, since around the time he hooked up with Microsoft and the first Fable debacle. Still at least we have him to thank for inventing dogs.

Didn't he tearfully promise to leave the game industry at one point as well..?

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Kristi
14/2/2015 08:24:06 am

You know, why the hell does the interviewer turn to the camera and nod constantly, I mean he isn't even looking at the person he is interviewing... That's extremely obnoxious. Also he gives 90% of the interview time to Pete and doesn't really give Konrad much of a chance to respond at all, I'm detecting some major bias here.

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Frank Chickens
16/2/2015 01:30:02 am

Very good Jeremy Paxman-esque interview with Peter at Rock Paper Shotgun: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/02/13/peter-molyneux-interview-godus-reputation-kickstarter/

Peter gets torn a new one and the opening question of 'Are you a pathological liar' is great.

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Lex-Man
17/2/2015 02:25:55 am

I actually played Godus because of this flair up and to be honest it wasn't that bad. Although it does just feel like a tweaked F2P game.

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