Simon, what is the "commercial reality"/"view" for Godus?

What is the context here?

Have I been replaced already? 

That sounds a lot like (and I say it with a lot of sadness, because I actually liked Starbase DF-9 and I think they handled it very well by wrapping it up and releasing the source code) godus will be finally starbased.

Yes they do and that should have been planned for with the kickstarter. I feel and I am sure most other backers feel that there should not be an if they are implements but a when they are implemented. I know I backed at the level I did for those promised features. If you plan to not full fill some of the higher level rewards then we backers should get a refund to low us down to the level rewards you are going to full fill.

So from your "commercial view" mobile will remain the main focus of development, since it is "the main source of revenue for the project and without it Godus is finished"? Are all allegedly PC-centric development features confirmed after it is made sure they are mobile-friendly? Will we ever see a major PC sprint that will result in development that won't make its way to mobile? I'm curious, because from the way you're wording things and from what your predecessor said about the money Godus brings in on a daily basis, surely you can afford to put more people on Godus than the existing single-digit volunteer/intern/amateur "team". How long do you figure it'll take you to develop "3 additional single player and multiplayer modes, "a deep social and competitive" sect feature, "multiplayer co-op and possession mode", and "first person world crafting"? Will we be playing a "finished version [by this November]"? Every company has an internal long-term vision and schedule, and I'd like to hear what 22Cans expects the answers to those questions to be.

Even Peter Molyneux promised in his last interview that the Kickstarter goals would be fulfilled. If you refuse to hold yourself to that basic standard, when your sole revenue stream at the moment was derived from promising that standard to people you now refuse to answer honestly about refunds, then shame on you.

Which part of the PC audience? There are PC users who are absolutely fine with playing something I and many others consider a facebook/mobile game.

So far we had:
- 3 years of working on mobile even when 22Cans tried to assure us (multiple times) that the current focus is absolutely on PC.
- 0,0 years of working towards a visible PC game.
The latest updates also suggest that the latest development is still heavily influenced by mobile.

Considering we've experienced nothing but hot air and (bad) PR so far, you can't possibly be surprised that we expect some actual evidence and not just empty words.

Hey, that's great. So don't forget about the other part of my posting -> refund me!!!! Even Frontier Development had the balls to refund people and their game looks much more than what they promised as Godus looks like what was promised in Kickstarter and various interviews, videos and exhibitions.

Yes maybe you will find a some people playing the game on PC who will like the game when it is done in 200 years and 5.000K PC sprints. And maybe even i would have bought this game (Godus will be in those 200 years). But i would never bought it for 180 pounds, maybe for 2 pounds on Steam, GOG, Greenman, ... sale. You should know it better, you are sitting in this office (i suppose) and you see the problems they have even with implementing combat (which is only a small step to the promised game or even half the promised game). So don't you think, and i don't mean 22cans, i mean you as a person (i don't think that you can answer as a person) ... don't you think it would be the more honest way to do it? Say we can't do it as promised - we stop it here, give everyone who wants the money and we do our best to make some more money with Godus as a mobile game? What's the problem. It can't get a much bigger PR desaster as it has been. Is there so little money?

We had studio playthroughs years ago, with much feedback, but it didn't end in a great game. Why should anything be differen if only a small team with less ressources should build a game on a grounding that has to cause problems, because of it's mobile origin?


EDIT: by the way - If I were so convinced that my product is great/will be great, I would not sell off it for a few dollars, like 22cans does.

Unless those features that "are coming to the PC" involve actually offering a PC game then they'll likely be received like every other half-arsed attempt at vacant, insulting hype.



First of all we don't know of any features because 22cans doesn't offer transparent development in the least bit. So much for Kickstarter development and following Early Access.

All we've had from 22cans recently was Combat hype and vague teasing, now some bollocks that maybe those who bought this F2P title might find those same vaguely-teased features acceptable as if 22cans DIDN'T run from serious discussion about that same PC game - hardly the best call, of any, for respect from the community.

The community really doesn't care how much you want to try to cite "passionate and excited" when most studio plays of 22cans looks like they'd rather be elsewhere than having to look at the elephant in the room from the body language. The same goes for you and Simon, especially when it pertains to ANY feedback you seem to acquire from the community, as apparently in-depth feedback is put on the same level as an Announcement upvote.

Tell Simon that instead of a silly hourly poll that he actually...I dunno, uses a forum and asks people? Discusses it with them?

The Universim's development has already given some good examples, why don't you pop over into those forums and have a look at how they're doing this whole community involvement thing correctly?