New RPS article is brilliant

Apparently the email address to contact is john@rockpapershotgun.com.

Thanks Aron that is the interview I was looking to be done. No holds bared feet over the fire. At first I will admit I could see Peters side of things, man when he has his feet solidly under him he can spin some stuff. But once he really started getting knocked off balance he started to lose it and try to deflect blame, then started to play the I am such a bad guy, pity me card. The guy that did the interview is good. He asked the hard questions right out of the gate and did not let Peter of the hook or let him deflect him or cloud the issue with the "I am a bad man, pity me." comments. He kept to the purpose of the interview and kept to the facts. I am only half way throught the interview and am finding it hard to stop reading but being at work I have to ummm work. LOL

I don't feel sorry for him at all. He was warned over and over and over and over again, that what he was doing was not kosher. His response was to call us bullies. Now, he is crying about bad press. He sounds like Nixon............." I am not a crook". 

If you don't want your dirty laundry to be seen, don't hang it out. Cry me a river, plenty of us backers used hard earned money from sweat and tears and what he did, bottomline.. was just plain WRONG. 

I also don't buy his BS about how the team size was never so small, just a quick cya fix ,ala Rabs is "back", and now he can pretend it never happened. What needs to happen PM, is your Trail needs to be shelved and ALL your resources should be on your Godus promises and fufillments and nothing else. 

You can and should not claim how you are just late or have financial resource problems when you are taking any from Godus because you arrogantly decided to do another one. You are not a God, you are a vendor and we are your backers and your customers. I guess you have not heard of don't bite the hand that feeds you. Without PLAYERS, you are indeed done. 

If you even think anything else will help your rep, well, sorry, that ship has sailed. Nobody is buying your BS or spin anymore, pretty bad when RPS calls you a liar. I have to wonder if more spin is coming since now, you are only reacting to press, instead of doing it. Someone please tell PM, they are one and the same and the more he does now, the worse he looks since he said he was done with press. 

And please stop acting like a child, "Was that Monday?" Sounds like something my kid would have said about forgetting a homework assignment and not something a grown man who is a businessman should ever think is okay. Yes, we all have flaws, mine is intolerance for bullshit. 

This interview proves that peter lies constantly, every word from his mouth is just one long constant stream of lies all the damn time, even in the interview, when he is flat out caught lying about the time that Konrad joined 22 cans, he still can't admit to himself that he is lying. It's one of the most pathetic things i've ever seen.

Oh he also should have said "I'll pay Bryan" that would have been very smart. Most PR advisors would have worked out by now that screwing over Bryan was the worst part of this. The public don't care about kickstarter but show them a 18 year old kid who won a "life changing prize" and got taken to the pub and abandoned and they will demand justice. If Peter wrote a cheque for $100k Brian would be happy and the heat would be taken out of the issue.

Based on Peter's comments in the issue I doubt his commitment to paying Brian and the ultimate sum sounds like it wont include backdating before multiplayer goes live.

Oh and another point I found interesting was how he didn't seem to accept that he had to meet the kickstarter promises or repay the money. Kind of explains how he got here.

Were a few things that were sadly missed opportunities, but overall a fantastic article.

Additional things that could have been asked were to do with subjects like Multiplayer, where Molyneux states they were preparing to finally start work on multiplayer in October/November 2014 yet the role of DeNa/publisher and their influence meant that they couldn't do so, yet in March/April 2014 the stance with hubworlds was that it was all very much ready to go for public roll out in a matter of weeks for mobile only. Then a matter of weeks for PC only. Then tentatively next week for opt-in depending on news from the server team... then nothing new on that front at all, yet he's talking about multiplayer in that interview as if they haven't even started any work at all on it in any way.

Edit: It's mentioned that 22Cans didn't have enough funds to see Godus through after the kickstarter and that Molyneux realised this in March following the successful KS campaign and so got on board with DeNa for funding well over what he received from the KS backers. Yet I seem to recall distant assurances on the Steam forums that funding and the role of DeNa was strictly for mobile only and wasn't in any way associated with the PC development of the game. Am I mis-remembering those assurances?

Also Molyneux claiming he hasn't spoken to press in 12 months, and then recanting and saying he hasn't tried to sell Godus to press in 12 months could have really done with a few links to the half dozen or more Godus interviews Molyneux has done in the last 6 months where he talks specifically just about Godus, where he's placing blame for things and claims of how well mobile is doing in terms of downloads and the amounts of money mobile is making for them now.

It's interesting that Peter says "asking for an additional five hundred thousand for a 100% contingency is something that's hard to justify" because that would mean that if Peter had received about 1000000 pounds from the backers instead of around 500000 pounds he could have completed the development. This combined with the statement he made right before when he said that the funds that they received upfront from the mobile publisher "far exceeded" the money they got off Kickstarter should mean that Godus should have been easily finished a long time ago.

They all have NDA's so former on not, that won't be happening till that noose runs out.