PCGamer.com: New 22 Cans CEO says Peter Molyneux "f**ked up"

It's quite common with the internet. By chance, there's a moderator in "here".


edit for Qetesh which is not the name of a fruit : blabla... there are 2 moderators in "here" .

I'm of a similar mindset, which is why I would like some clarification surrounding that matter. Frankly, I think we all wouldn't mind some more direct clarity on this, since it seems we're of a similar feeling that Simon's response was a glancing hit, without really tackling it to the ground.

Hopefully Simon's workload involves actually fixing...ANYTHING...versus taking what, months to figure out and publicly admit what has been mostly publicly-known - especially since Feb?

This is just a jab at the moderators over on steam

In other news...

At this point their investors should put aside a fund for 22Cans management to take business administration, community management, and public relations courses at a local community college of their choice. Reminds me of something a friend once quipped: "If you have a pulse they'll hire you".

You could always go and ask peter directly, just what in the holy hell he was talking about?

We all know what asking Peter ends up. I don't think we would get any useful answer out of this. That's the reason why Peter isn't allowed to say anything - now it's Simon's turn to f*** this up.

That brilliance of "no plan" was definitely remarked about in the comments of the recent articles.

Ah, so that means it's business as usual, but instead of telling us that they have plans they now tell us that they have absolutely no plans? I'm not sure going from one extreme to the other is going to have any real effect except to induce more ridicule of 22cans, especially when it's been clear that there hasn't been any plan all along but chase mobile microtransactions while defrauding everyone else they can along the way.

Again, we've known how 22cans has been f***ing up, to the point that this article just really serves to point out another of Peter's lies, but does little to nothing about describing any actual plan or effort 22cans is doing to improve the game besides quid pro status quo.

• Bryan will get something, honest!
• Kickstarter backers still got to back a F2P mobile shovelware title as reward for their "faith" in Peter's design ability that really has lost relevance in the last two decades to much better efforts than copying others.
  
• Early Access customers on Steam got abused and messed around with as their reward for mistakenly thinking 22cans was going to participate in the program. Then they got the mobile shovelware update, with some consolation editors and debug modes added in later, with the carrot of Combat serving to do little but annoy those long since tired of the shitty F2P mechanics in a game they bought under the bait of "reinventing the god game".
• People who bought Godus on sites other than Steam were baited with the wrong description of the game (the 1.3 description) and some are still SOL because of 22cans' cowardly hiding behind "Steam Policy" instead of any ethical response:

www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/indie/godus/

STILL SELLING FRAUDULENTLY!  STILL F***ING UP!

At least Steam had to start offering refunds in general because of the developers who 22can't be arsed to fix anything themselves.


It amazes me how a company of 25 can somehow seem to have more intra-office bureaucratic BS and communications issues than teams more than four times that size.

It goes back to the whole thing about how 22cans is overstaffed in some aspects, while some of the staff in some positions act like jobsworths. For one example, I can't tell what they need a Producer for if they have no real plans but to wank polish around on Combat as a white elephant in the room for the foreseeable future as they iterate themselves from hitting rock bottom into making a comfortable sitting there.

Or even any need for a Creative Director for Godus. Yeah, I went there.

At least 22cans now has a CEO who can figure out what has been publicly-known for six months to a year, which is a bit better than your average sociopath hired into the position, especially better than Peter's disconnected to the point of patronising attempts at community interaction in videos that mostly feature Jack alternatively looking like he's either tuned out or about to lose his shit.

So, things are actually looking up! (Albeit in some small steps...)

Now only if there can be forthright communication without so much evident company bureaucracy that cripples any ability for them to remotely claim transparent iterative agile development...

Actually, that's the problem here. Molyneux had a mobile-centric plan for Godus, went ahead with the mobile-centric plan for Godus, finished the mobile-centric plan for Godus, and spent the next few months attempting to sex up the mobile content packs as PC features via "development updates" to stave off the PC crowd until the Trail was finished. Here's him confirming as much in a developer conference speech:

godus.boards.net/post/17769/thread

As far as 22Cans is concerned, Godus is finished, Godus was a success, and the only thing left to do development-wise is keep pumping out mobile content packs and label them as PC features/updates to keep the mobile revenue flowing and to placate the bad PR from the PC audience. Molyneux was fully aware of this state of affairs, which is why he kept putting out those update videos despite considering the game finished. Simon is no different in that regard, only now we have text updates that deliver contrived excuses and justifications instead of videos.