Farewell

You scared me with that title.
To all future leavers:
It's been fun poking the bear that 22Cans is with you. Even though the bear is blind, somewhat retarded, and was dead for the past 6 months. I hope whatever will take up your time will be just as entertaining, but a lot more rewarding, and educational.

Yea I was wondering who was leaving and I opened it up and saw you were the first post and was like "what the hell....."

Perhaps naming it "Farewell thread" or "Thread for farewells" instead of just "Farewell" would be less panic-inducing

Okay since I am the first one to say this, I get to say it in style! Goodbye godus, I'll always wonder what happened to you & where you went, but it's more of a possibility that you might not have ever even existed. All of the Kickstarter & the Steam store page hype was just created to look like you MIGHT have.

It's sad we don't even have the corpse to bury here in this pretty confetti covered treasure chest, but there is the distinct possibility that we might find it lying on the side of that big mobile road in the sky, & albeit quite soon. Perhaps we can find you by reading those magic Tarot cards dealt out on the mysterious timeline of life. When we do find you, we will put stickers on your eyes to keep those evil PM demons out, & we will read a delicious zen like sermon over you. The lemming ship will give you the send off that a true god game deserves, as it burns in the distance. Watch out for that finger of god though, it tends to head straight up your south end.

 Have true faith, your body will no longer be tethered to this beautifully sculpted realm, & your temples of expansion shall be timer less. We hope you follow the road map that never came straight to those blessed hub worlds on Jupiter. May your pink bubble gum bubbles give you endless belief. Goodbye to that which never even existed, except in the deluded mind of the great PM. All hail to the god game genre, for it has truly died by the hands of it's creator. Amen!

Farewell wonkonpac. I'm sad to see you go. Do check in in the future from time to time, perhaps when you're utterly bored.

Farewell odin13. Of course I am sad to see you go. I wish you well and hope maybe someday we shall meet again under more joyful circumstances. Thanks for your kind words and for your advice which I'll surely be following up on. Take care.

It's been there for a while, but most people ignore signs no matter how big they are, or how many other people point to them - and that includes the developers. One thing that is a fairly telling signal is how many visitors, and contributors, a game forum has. So, it's possibly a sign that things are not good, seeing how abysmally vacant the 22Cans Godus forum is; especially for a game in Beta or Early Access development. It should be teeming with players and such, but the activity on that site is almost non-existent, with slight peaks on "news" days; but even then it's pretty slim. And, it's almost always the same few dozen people. What happened to all the backers? Oh, that's right, they (we) have basically given up. That's a pretty sad state of affairs when your early supporters are too jaded to care. It's a real shame, and they have a long, grueling, bloody march ahead of themselves if they ever wish to redeem things.

And I don't really count the Steam forums, because that's somewhat of a different situation - Steam community is an open-forum frequented by a great many people everyday, so statistically that forum will have more life. However, despite that as we all know, the mood there isn't usually all too pleasant... and that too should tell people something.

I haven't left the forums yet, but I certainly am not playing that awful game and have come exceedingly close to swearing off any involvement with it.

I would be lying if I said that I haven't been tempted to leave myself. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm the forum admin I might have been gone already. I do have a tendency to stick around though so perhaps not. I like being part of an online community that came together for reasons that we share.

You are definitely correct that at a certain point we just keep saying the same things over and over again. I have noticed this myself and have started posting less because of it. Maybe if I'll give it some time things will turn around somehow.

It saddens me to see you go waiting on conway but I understand your position. I do hope you will like you say be back to chime in from time to time. Remember we also have a Whatever section that you can use to talk about whatever you feel like. Some communities can last for long after the reason that people came together in the first place is nothing but a memory. I hope this will be one of them.

Good luckon your next game. You will be missed I enjoyed reading your post.