Godus and Godus Wars, infamous crowdfunded disasters from Peter Molyneux, have both been removed from sale on Steam.

Peter Molyneux drama is delicious.

  • Fracturedfox@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I remember playing this game when it first came out as a mobile game. Super cool concept, but I also remember hearing the drama from the start. I definitely thought this game had been abandoned a looong time ago.

    • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I remember loving it when it came out for mobile and really liking the updates for a while. Then I didn’t play it for some time as I had done most stuff and when I came back it had had some big update that completely changed it and I really didn’t like it.

  • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I remember that during the development of Black & White they had a journalist writing about its development and how exciting it was going to be.

    Black & White got realized, but these interviews seemed a very fishy way of hyping the game and it’s when I got wary of Molyneaux grand claims

    • badcommandorfilename@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I remember reading those Dev journals too, but I feel like they helped me to get more out of B&W than most other people.

      Yes, it was all about building hype, but it meant that I played more in a “find-your-own-fun-and-set-your-own-goals” way, which I think was what the original intent was.

      Everyone’s biggest complaint was that the missions were half-baked and felt like they were thrown in right at the end. And they were right.

  • FMT99@lemmy.worldEnglish
    104·
    1 year ago

    I’ll always have a soft spot for mr. Molyneux. Yeah his plans don’t always work out but he’s a real visionary, not (intentionally :p) a scam artist.

    • didnt_readit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Idk…telling lies to potential customers that you know to be bullshit to get money from them based on promises you know you’ll never deliver sure sounds like a scam artist to me:

      (From the article)

      Molyneux talked in interviews about the pressure to overpromise in order to secure funding, telling Tech Radar that “the behaviour is incredibly destructive, which is ‘Christ, we’ve only got 10 days to go and we’ve got to make £100,000, for fuck’s sake, lets just say anything’.”