What do you think will happen once its over?

While it's still possible the Trail will come out of nowhere, I don't think that will happen. I just don't think 22Cans is that good a developer and think they struggle to finish things.

My guess is they'll finish the trail for mobile devices, laidened with microtransactions in the new way PM wanted players to spend money but not realise it (I'm sure I heard him say that once, it sounds like pick pocketing to me). At best it might make them a new revenue stream or at least break even, at worst they'll cut their losses and close 22cans and go hide. I think the only way we'll see a new Godus release is if they decide to fix it after a successful release of the trail (which I reckon will be hidden as best they can from our community).

when that happens I'll stop coming here

I think 22Cans is just going to slowly empty out until there are no actual employees left. It'll then sit idle staring off into space, like the ghost of an elderly dementia sufferer, without even enough energy left to rock the rickety old chair it sits in. It began 1.5 years ago, when Peter and Co. bailed and replaced themselves with a skeleton crew of patsies and has slowly filtered to nothing. We have no idea who, if anyone, is still around. There's been no hint of activity for months and the only stirrings of life are the unpaid mods that grace Steam.

Godus Wars was Konrad's big gasp at salvaging the project. I sincerely believe they all thought that it would prove to us that they were serious about making it all work and were shocked at how unimpressed we were to receive it. This project and everything about it has been full of people unwilling to stare reality in the face while tap-dancing around problems. Tunnel vision and blinders don't even come close to adequately describing things. What money still going into employee bank accounts appears to be doing much more than funding their expenses while they apply for other work.

Godus Wars is a feature poor version of Populous with Powermonger tactics and somewhat better graphics. It lacks any innovation whatsoever. Every feature has been cribbed from somewhere else. We all figured out Godus was doomed shortly after the 2.0 release, despite so many pompous dismissals from PM, the mods, and cm staff. A game without objectives needs entertaining things to do. PM's whole idea was to design the god game equivalent to Minecraft, with land sculpting as its only gimmick.

The only real thing they've accomplished since the big turnover is to finally have set a goal to achieve. What's sad is that the whole result is a watered down rehash of a 20 year old idea. Lots of ideas were given by the community that could have helped turn things around and each was taken as if it was an insult to PM's own creativity. It's all just so sad how much of a creative vacuum this all was...

It all went to shits right around the time when Monkeythumbz and Matthew Allen left the company. Or probably slightly before. Too be honest, things were already shit before then but at least we had some positive stuff going on.