John Kowalski
Banned
Schafer is just genetically a good guy holy crap
such a cool guy
such a cool guy
They honestly expected to take people's money and not having to answer in case something went wrong? Because this is what it looks like to me. If they don't like this model they can always go back to working with publishers.
And yet if you knew nothing about pre game hype, and only played his games, you might say he makes great games, even if Fable 3 wasn't as good as the other two and Godus hasn't delivered.
it went beyond criticism. into just being mean and harassing territory.
You're under the impression publisher money doesn't?It isn't fair that kickstarter money comes with strings attached.
Molyneux is not just over promising, he's intentionally making up stuff in order to sell his games.Peter Molyneux deserves everything that has come his way.
One guy who has failed to deliver on his Kickstarter defends other guy who has failed to deliver on his Kickstarter.
Film at 11.
Starting an article off with "are you a pathological liar" is, quite simply, bad form. It's certainly not good criticism, because it sets the entire tone of the conversation and comes off like an attack piece. The question should have come much later on in the interview.
One guy who has failed to deliver on his Kickstarter defends other guy who has failed to deliver on his Kickstarter.
Film at 11.
I still adore Schafer, but uh, this. Though I still feel Doublefine's blunders in the last few years haven't been nearly as blatant as Molyneux promising things he knew were never going to happen or essentially conning people into buying fake DLC for Curiosity.Tim Schäfer is the wrong person to defend Molyneux, if there even is a right one. Spacebase DF-9 should be a loud argument.
That is true, but Double Fine is still in the same boat enthusiasts whose imagination is bigger than what they actually able to do.I still adore Schafer, but uh, this. Though I still feel Doublefine's blunders in the last few years haven't been nearly as blatant as Molyneux promising things he knew were never going to happen or essentially conning people into buying fake DLC for Curiosity.
I'm still really torn on how I feel about the RPS interview though, since while Peter deserves to be directly called out on his shit but at the same time Walker seemed to cross the line almost immediately.
Watch Jim Sterling's latest Jimquistion on him. Ole Pete knows what he is doing, and he shouldn't get a pass.
He's played the victim enough. It's time we stop treating him like one.
Schafer could have easily been in Molyneux's position after his (or more precisely his company) last projects tbh.
Do you honestly feel they're equivalent?
Pretty much. Molyneux consistently makes mistakes on overpromising that he never seems to learn from. That said, development is never easy and Schafer could just as easily been in Molyneux's position given his own difficulties.
I do remember a few threads wondering what he was doing with the KS money from Broken Age, as well as the Space Base 9 early release backlash. It's so easy to dump on people when their jobs aren't exactly as transparent as it'd appear. As Shams Jorjani states in his interview with Angry Joe, development is super hard to lock down timetables and almost nothing comes out perfectly. Criticism is perfectly valid but there's a point where criticism crosses into full blown schadenfreude territory of just dumping on a dev that's had a lot of failures.
How many times can one man lie about things before people stop defending him
it went beyond criticism. into just being mean and harassing territory.
The harsh reaction to the latest Godus stuff wasn't because of Godus not working out. Stuff happens. It's because it happens EVERY SINGLE TIME with Molyneux games. Its not a coincidence. I don't understand this defense at all.
Both guys know how to pitch an idea but both have a horrible track record on managing resources and deadlines.
Kotick was right
"The guy comes out and says I'm a prick," Kotick told the latest issue of Edge magazine.
"I've never met him in my life I've never had anything to do with him. I never had any involvement in the Vivendi project that they were doing, Brütal Legend, other than I was in one meeting where the guys looked at it and said, 'He's late, he's missed every milestone, he's overspent the budget and it doesn't seem like a good game. We're going to cancel it.'
"And do you know what? That seemed like a sensible thing to do. And it turns out, he was late, he missed every milestone, the game was not a particularly good game..."
You could say this matter is.black and white
Molyneux made the bed he sleeps in. He's theto his own jail cell.dungeon keeper
Never trust Molyneux would be the moral to this.fable
RockPaperShotgun shouldn't have focused their interview so much on Godus running over schedule, which is nothing exceptional.
If Peter deserves criticism it should be for the implausible stuff he said about Project Milo and Project Natal.
Theme park.
it went beyond criticism. into just being mean and harassing territory.
Peter Molyneux: Youve got what you want, havent you John? You just dont want me around.
RPS: Listen, thats a ridiculous thing to say. Im saying that of course you havent done any promotional press in the last twelve months, you havent had anything to promote for twelve months.
Peter Molyneux: Yes I have. Of course I have!
RPS: What?
Peter Molyneux: Thereve been 207 releases on Steam.
RPS: And the reviews of those releases
Peter Molyneux: Theres been the iOS version and the Android version. I could have hyped those. Theres been the total change around of the timeline in the game, I could have hyped those. I would have hyped those in the old days. Jesus Christ, I kept the development of Black & White going in the press for four years.
[Source]
Oh right...
Molyneux has built aof lies.theme park
He uh... Has.. taken us tothe movies?
Yeah, sounds about right, going by that summary.
His defence wasn't to say the accusations aren't true, that was the very first thing he said. His defence is that the tone is wrong and things are being blown out of proportion.
"No one" (and by that I mean most people) was immensely upset with Peter Molyneux before those articles came to light. Most of the people were "dormant" about the issues and sure there was the occasional mocking or pointing out of his mistakes but when someone points it out, it's suddenly a huge deal and "we" act as if he should be crucified for it.
I don't think "we" hate Molyneux as much we're simply following a current trend and the suggestion that we should.
It's a slow news month, he was an easy target the masses are easily influenceable by the power of suggestion. It's as simple as that.
Don't understand? Perhaps a bit of comedy will help you understand what's really going on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
His defence wasn't to say the accusations aren't true, that was the very first thing he said. His defence is that the tone is wrong and things are being blown out of proportion.
"No one" (and by that I mean most people) was immensely upset with Peter Molyneux before those articles came to light. Most of the people were "dormant" about the issues and sure there was the occasional mocking or pointing out of his mistakes but when someone points it out, it's suddenly a huge deal and "we" act as if he should be crucified for it.
I don't think "we" hate Molyneux as much we're simply following a current trend and the suggestion that we should.
It's a slow news month, he was an easy target the masses are easily influenceable by the power of suggestion. It's as simple as that.
Both guys know how to pitch an idea but both have a horrible track record on managing resources and deadlines.
Kotick was right
"The guy comes out and says I'm a prick," Kotick told the latest issue of Edge magazine.
"I've never met him in my life I've never had anything to do with him. I never had any involvement in the Vivendi project that they were doing, Brütal Legend, other than I was in one meeting where the guys looked at it and said, 'He's late, he's missed every milestone, he's overspent the budget and it doesn't seem like a good game. We're going to cancel it.'
"And do you know what? That seemed like a sensible thing to do. And it turns out, he was late, he missed every milestone, the game was not a particularly good game..."