The PC Sprint - what is it?

So basically what you're saying is that Peter has abandoned the project and left it in your hands taking a chunk of the team with him to work on something else with the caveat of being able to jump back in at any time. I actually think this is a positive development because we all know now that Peter Molyneux stinks and has effectively ruined project Godus from the very beginning. I'll be keen to find out how many people you will have under you working on Godus and in which direction you'll be taking the development.

It seems strange to me that the decision was made to ask money for a godgame - a game that most backers imagined would be a PC game.
Then with that money, make a mobile game. So that the mobile game can fund further development of the initially funded PC game.

Wouldn't it have been far more cost-effective to make a decent PC game in the first place, bypass all the emotional trauma and actually get decent sales off of steam early access.
Then take the profits and the game created there and convert it to a functional mobile facsimile?

I'm honoured that you think that, and I'd like to add that most of my ideas are doable by default because I always think about how to implement them. But the bad news is that I think I'm being poached for trail

I thought it's not in production?

Noooooopoo!!!1! We need our 'fabs working on our game. We can start a petition if need be.

Despite any differnces of opinion we may have about the development process at 22Cans, so far you're all fabulous people that we (at least I) feel still not only believe in what Godus can be, but you have great ideas that often align with thr community. You need to stay on Godus! or at least remain in some kind of dedign consulting poition with it.

The community was told that the only people working on the Trail would be the ones who no longer had anything valuable contribute to Godus (e.g. artists and designers since apparently Godus doesn't need of their input any more).

It would be nice to be given a straight and honest answer once in a while.

Edit: we were told this by... you! steamcommunity.com/app/232810/discussions/0/624076027925636492/#c624076751542122795

I don't mean to imply you aren't being honest though. Just that it appears that the future plans of the studio are being misconstrued even internally.

Yeah, I'm not happy by the news either.

Remember how monkeythumbs said how he had no information about the trail before Peter announced it? I am in the same company. I was told, and relayed, that it was just three artists (with a coder to help setup). That seems to have changed. From your point of view, this looks like lies, I get that, but it's not, it's just the rate of change.

I'm sorry if I've let you down, but I don't get to decide what project I work on. I will ask to remain on it, but I've already been given orders to start learning the new engine.

While all this refocusing and planning feels promising, a lot of what I'm hearing throws red flags. This is the heart of why I'm not thrilled about all this news:

-The only person to get on here regularly that works on the project is being reassigned to Trails.

This may be a coincidence but it sure looks bad from the outsider perspective. We've been so in the dark for so long and barely been given a peak inside at this point.

-Godus is going to be worked on by an unspecified subgroup of 22Cans members.

We've been assured that Godus will be developed for years to come. 22Cans has had problems implementing things with the staff they have now. How are we supposed to believe that things are going to speed up? This feels more like "technically" fulfilling that promise while stalling for time. I'd be less concerned if the pc version was spun up as a whole new project with a specified, dedicated, team that worked independently and on its own. Anything less smacks of lip service to an internal system that hasn't really changed much from what it already has been doing.

PM hasn't retired and he's not going to stay away. He's going to come up with another sudden "epiphany/brainstorm" and we're going to get another half-baked feature crammed into whatever fixes the skeleton crew's been able to make. We've a few years of experience watching how 22Cans operates and there's nothing that supports the idea that they've suddenly come to a development epiphany. When this project bogs down in six months because of too much work and too few hands, I'm expecting another round of iterative design excuses and avoidance.

-There's no funding for this project on its own

The pc version of Godus is now a drain on the company. It is both beholden on the goodwill of other projects and an albatross upon the Godus name with its negative image. People may be able to ignore it on the short term, but makes little business sense at this point. The only reason I can see this continuing is the fear of contract breach. 22Cans is just feeding bananas to the 500 lb gorilla in the room at this point. It's not going to leave at this point, maybe they're thinking it'll at least take a nap.

-With all the talk, it sounds like 22Cans expects us to treat this restructure as a reset button

All this talk isn't going to excuse the last two years. At this point, we've been asked to be patient too many times. We've given the benefit of the doubt more than anyone should ever have to do. Actions speak louder than words and it's telling just how bad things are when the community reacts to 22Cans spending a month actually communicating as a major boon. We've been patient, belittled by the corporate spokesman, mislead, misrepresented, marginalized, and excluded for so long that I'm uncertain it's even possible to heal the rift.

Putting ANY current employees on the Trails project is a slap in the face to the Godus community. There's no way around that. 22Cans has warn its small size like a suit of armor and repeatedly used it as an excuse to deflect criticism about how the pc version has been virtually ignored for over a year. Nobody has a clue just how this is going to work.

We need to prepare ourselves for the point where Peter starts doing press to create hype for the Trail. We all know it will involve talk of how great mobile is and how we can all game together and how we can connect people, blah, blah. The worst part will be Peter's epiphanies about what went wrong with GODUS which will of course blame everything and everybody except Peter.