Broken Mobile

Not to mention the somewhat dull use of "The Eggquinox" that seems to have little to do with the actual term.

Once the astari are dealt with you've got even less to do...
I've still got a hidden chest count with the 'story' long unlocked.
Same holds true in both PC steam and mobile< I log in every now and again to see if we have an update and to refill the happiness levels. I've chunks of belief, crops and ore that far exceed what I can do antthing useful with, even rebuilding the sculptable world would not use it all.

It's tragic bro but they only developed enough of the game so as to take your money and then peter took the majority of the resources to work on what we call betrayal (the trail). Combat might arrive at mobile one day (it's in opt in on PC now) but will a little combat fix the gameplay deficit? I think not.

It could take years for godus to be improved assuming they don't spacebase (declare it complete prematurely) it.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I've been playing this on "Android" and it has been a while since I checked out this thread. It really is as bad as people say.

Yes, the pay-for-story rubbish is in there, and I had to laugh at Mindless' pics about charging for colour - at this point it would seem par for 22cans.

testudoaubreii: Welcome and...uh..."spoilers" I guess, as others have mentioned - after getting through all of those pay-or-wait and nagwall mechanics - you are approaching what could be considered "contentwall". That is where if you are expecting more content you are to clap for Tinkerbell and hope that somehow a miracle happens because 22cans has only enough care to work upon one small bit of Goad Us at a time...and there's no endgame unless you like playing in sand.

Lord Ba'al: Have you played the mobile version? PC as well?

This forum is going to have a wee bit more traffic on it soon. I have rambled a bit on about it at length elsewhere, but here's a couple of notes I've seen not mentioned already in this thread - mobile has already been represented as not in development.

Currently on mobile and with the rest of development in mind, I'm looking at this pile of digital what the f*** wondering in which year we're expected to see a finished product - while those working upon it are going to have a merry bit of fun when the reporters start calling upon them to answer the same questions I've been posing to them already. At least they'll be somewhat prepared for the important details, even though my own asking would make it clear that only if the media notices and prints about it does 22cans really...get off their cans. Then can have especial fun explaining why the rest of 22cans were having fun out in a field while Goad Us languishes in dev hell.

I have long been looking into the differences between the PC and mobile version. You get editing tools and actual PC differences will be Soonus™ though who knows when considering that 22cans is mired in on "PC development" and going nowhere really fast overall to meet any expectations for this year (again, I must stress that this is not due to the individual developers themselves slacking off - 22cans has more PR and production on the title at any given time versus people making the damn thing!)

...and we're supposed to be stupid enough to not see this, that's the champ part of it all.

The contrast is evident - the mobile version is "done" for as long as they can keep people pushing microtransactions, adding a bit of holiday-themed art, but otherwise they can keep development in that lovely circle of dev hell called "spin cycle" - an active development cycle that is given post-release development strength while the management plays off that they're not wasting anyone's money or time, but stringing people along for continued attention - and using that money to develop MORE upon another game.

They've been working upon combat on PC for how long? After that there is multiplayer, and after that, consult the dartboard because not even 22cans cares to say in public. The problem is that with the number of people working upon any version of it, Goad Us is done.

They're going to continue charging to progress through asinine paywalls that eventually gets to...

Nothing! Just like that whole Curiosity thing. I wonder if 22cans will even remember Bryan before they're prompted by the media again this year.)

Eventually you get to a game that never really had a single-player endgame designed, and so right now they are "stuck" in spin-cycle on PC while mobile was last updated - according to the Google Play store:



*sigh*

Goad Us becomes more of a piss-take the more the shambling beast keeps going on.

Development needs to be resurrected or double-tapped, because this charade is insulting and will soon become evident for everyone as those who do know better (i.e. the rest of the industry) will be able to express upon the anniversary of Clickbait: The Game having a "winner" - or again when Peter told the Guardian when to expect the game he sold them.

Maybe Peter will get more sympathies from Double Whine's Tim Schafer about which of them can ruin their own legendary career faster?



The whole design of the game is so half-arsed that it's obvious that ~22 people wasted their time over two years to come up with a really sub-par mobile game that insults everyone involved, especially the players.

The most annoying thing about the Astari was how tacked-on they were to anything, and it obviously felt so, as a way of "errr...we need some kind of an enemy" much like the story was put into the game.  I don't know, but the parts that had some relevance to the point in gameplay I was at were...okay, but I didn't have enough to buy story, buy belief, buy timers, buy...oh, look, I could have just avoided spending on that since it was made moot shortly afterward.

Instead of fixing any of this, 22cans only have enough people to put on a show that there is substantial development.

If Goad Us is still in "full development" then what is The Trail in?  Double-plus full development?

Even the mobile version is trash...I'm finding more reason to play and more enjoyment in Dungeon Keeper.  I'm horrified, but there you go.

22cans aren't even being honest about the game in the mobile stores - that it is still in development:


(PROTIP: Always spell check your store entries. PROTIP 2: Update your support contact information. PROTIP 3: THIS IS SUPPOSEDLY SOMEONE'S JOB WHICH THEY ARE PAID TO DO.)

Nearly everything about the game has been a fake Cardiff Giant, that their awesome new support portal is...well, appears to be just another act. Hooray, their previous crappy support site is now a better structured version of the same "Forcefully Answered Questions" since those questions the community frequently asks are notably missing.

If it doesn't match up to description, who cares since it was free?

This is 22cans' new target market.  They aren't going to easily go back the other direction, from a questionable mobile developer to a respectable PC developer - they're too busy sliding down towards the likes of all the other app store trolls.

BlueStacks might work out if you or anyone else want to give the mobile version a try on PC.  Free if you install a couple of their sponsored games every so often.

I've been told that the PC version's design isn't much difference save for interface, a couple of editors, the sacrifice mechanic for gems instead of a store, and Aynen's stupid excuses about why development might be "going faster" now.

I'm now tempted to get a PC key so I could do a side-by-side review, but that would involve throwing money at 22cans in some form for something they're not marketing honestly...and it would involve playing through all of this rubbish all over again...

Goad Us doesn't so much give a nod to Black & White (and the god game genre) as a seizure twitch from all the microtransaction popups and nagwalls infested in it.

It really does look promising...until you realise that outside of the sculpting with an expensive rented shovel the game is little more than a ham-fisted blunder of design to copy Dungeon Keeper Mobile and Clash of Clans, relying on Peter to come up with lies such as "invest-to-play" and a monetisation model that "hasn't existed before".*

Then 22cans issues a complete "f*** you" to everyone by using the same monetisation model found in the games they once trashed.

The review here illustrates that, in how the game goes from promising to downhill quickly, especially if you are familiar with titles that offer some reason for microtransactions besides "alleviate the suck in a single-player game":

godus.boards.net/thread/430/mobile-user-updated-day-6

After you realise that there wasn't any purpose in playing a game that went nowhere and is going nowhere slowly, when you could have been involved in one of those actual games that pulled the rug on Peter's whole Curiosity "prize" of using a person as a marketing gimmick for a God of Gods, then does it really sink in how much of an ass Peter really is.

He hyped and sold what already existed, as most developers DO have chats with their top winners on a regular basis.  

The only difference is that Peter's promised a monetary share on a feature that looks like it will never happen.

That is quite definitely a "You had ONE JOB..."



*- Y'know, in checking out Godus, Dungeon Keeper Mobile, and Clash of Clans...these pay-or-wait games aren't that bad when you play 2-3 at the same time in BlueStacks...probably because they're basically the same game with minor variations in each "iterative development". XD

Hahaha...not just that...that is just the tip of the turdberg:
www.22cans.com/godus-roadmap-where-are-we-headed/

Keep in mind that was almost a year ago, they were supposedly going to add in another age in just three months.  Along with Hubworld.  Along with any new content.  Along with a load of bullshit while 22cans didn't really even get halfway through in that roadmap before running to start another game for their publisher - as such, 22cans is no longer really "indie" but is now a developer for DeNA - 22cans' "creative freedom" over the last year or so definitely showed who called the shots for the dev studio's direction.  Without crowdfunding as an option, Peter is now back to being under a publisher...ironically so, given his reasons for leaving Lionhead.

That now has a firm, detrimental effect of holding 22cans by the short hairs, keeping them from doing anything really noteworthy with the game, so when the publisher likely said that they considered it a full game (just listen to some of the sycophant spew from Peter's gob on occasion where he starts making excuses for money) 22cans have just been keeping up appearances for the PC users and media while they go to work on a new title for their publisher.

That is obvious with how they've been in "spin-cycle" of dev hell playing around with combat - just combat - for the last two months or so because apparently that is how they're able to do ANYTHING with the limited number of actual developers allowed to the game.  About the best they have been able to add in new content otherwise...is on the level of changing the land colours into holiday pastel puke.

22cans takes their game and tries to make a Clash of Clans sort of god game clone...and somehow couldn't even manage to rip them off to a level that could be considered functional; they have an microtransaction model for a single-player game based upon asinine cooldowns - which do have a place in a competitive arena suiting some game styles - but as a single-player game Goad Us is an exercise in watching spectacular failure to be successfully derivative except in that 22cans managed to acquire some money for their pimp publisher.

Playing Goad Us alongside Dungeon Keeper Mobile...you can tell who took extensive notes, while the paying customers got to "suck-it-and-see" how 22cans did a spectacularly incompetent job of it all to use their backers and Early Access customers to push a half-ass mobile game with perhaps one notable quirk, the sculpting.  As such, the game has been a shameful waste of talent of everyone involved - executed in a manner such that it could have only been intentional, to a level that the same Electronic Arts who killed Bullfrog would be envious.