Why am I talking about Godus?

I feel the same way. I can't believe that it basically cost me 150 euros to work for many hours on something that in the end I will have no interest in whatsoever. At least there's a lesson well learned.

Yes it's terrible. When i think back how it all began and how promising everything was. Everyone made suggestions and people even shared their hardware specs without anyone asking them. But even there almost nothing came from the devs. The communication was really bad from the beginning. I am sure this could have got a great community and that could have helped to sell the game. Instead they hide the game from us and make any announcement through the press. The augurs made it really bad, but it was bad before, too. Look how polite anybody was, we respected everything they wanted. Not one alpha tester made a video or posted screenshots, even if they were not happy with the game. First screenshot was posted before the release on steam (because of the gemshop).

Maybe it's the best way to make a lot of money. Time will show. But I don't think that it was really clever. I am pretty sure that all of the EPB (extremly positive backer) will be gone after some time. If the f2p on mobile does not work good enough they will get real problems. I don't think they will get many sales on steam if the game goes on like this. And a new kickstarter? I doubt they will get a lot of money.

I would never back another Kickstarter project by Peter Molyneux. In fact I might make it my mission to try to prevent as many people as possible from getting duped by him. Why? Because I care. I would also never make any in-game purchases in Godus.

I've been a fan of Molyneux since dungeon keeper and always grew up enjoying most of his work such as black and white and fable 1 maybe 2 if I was in a good mood. Then I backed him on godus going "yes!" about time we had a new god game and by god I wish I never did what the hell was he thinking when it first got funded things were in good motion and I was looking forward to it but then it just slowly died on updates, Then onto game updates itself and with the 22cans offical forums pretty much dead since june I made the decision to remeber peter by his old work when he actually did the code himself rather than just sit and talk.

Godus is surely the last flop I'll support from peter ever again and I hate to say it but I wish I used the £15 to get Oddworld Abe's New 'N' Tasty that comes out later this year.

 I've read this often, and I'm beginning to wonder in what way I, and other moderators / augurs, made it worse.

Could you give examples, or explain why you feel the moderators made it worse?

ps. sorry for cherry picking.

I don't believe that the Augurs personally made it worse, more that the action of creating a mechanism that allowed 22Cans to remove themselves from direct contact made it worse.
Some may see it that the Augers were just moderators of the forums, there to filter what we said and how we said it.
More than that though, you were a tool, an asset to be used, which allowed 22Cans to filter out the white noise of the forum community from the dev team. 

Essentially, the Augers were an Ad Blocker, the forum community were the Ads, the Dev team the poor old end user just looking for some piece and quiet on the internet.

There is nothing wrong with the Auguers themselves; most decent forums have mods and it's a non issue.

I believe the problem lies in the perceived motive behind the creation and functions of the 22Cans mods, moderating down is fine & normal practice, but being used as a firewall to protect themselves from their own community.
It's cowardice, Ignorance and arrogance all bundled up into one blue bird package on the part of the 22Cans Board.

It's not that the community hates the Augers personally, it's that we hate what the Augers are being used for.
It might just be me, but I don't think so.

I hope that adds some context to the general feeling.

Was trying to think how to put it, but I think Mark summed it up pretty damn well!

It's so refreshing seeing you post without worry Umbra

Good job on those icons mate.



Indeed.



Right before the augurs were installed there was an explosion of negative posts on the forum. Right after the augurs were there there were posts being edited, moved or even deleted. It felt like 22Cans sent out their watchdogs to fight back against the negativity. I understand that you did what you thought was right because that's what you were told to do. I'm glad that you see the other side of it.