What happened to MatthewAllen?

I've seen him tweet a couple of times recently. So it looks as though he is still alive.

Or someone is making it look like he is.

I was also wondering where he wondered off to. One post a week if we are lucky and the one Augur around still using that account not his own as he promised.

Not really.  Still shite.

Matthew came on to the scene with a lot of fanfare and a great reception, but it's quickly become apparent that he has no power at all beyond what anyone else had before him.

Early on he insisted he was working FOR the community, and claimed to be putting in long hours 7 days a week to... he wasn't exactly clear on this, write reports for the dev team I think? That report must be the length of War and Peace by now. He seems like a pleasant and well-intentioned person but he's also a champion bullshitter. There's no pretending that any of the promised changes have come to fruition, and his role on the Steam forum (I don't have access to the backers' forum) has been reduced to that of Muir: cheerleading and promising fervently that he's "passing feedback on to the devs" and that fixes and updates will be "soon".

I asked him when he first appeared if he was able to speak freely or if he had to run everything past either of the PMs. He said he could speak freely. Not sure I believe him.

Sam got tired of having to deal with the lies.
He had the questions to PM.
PM said, yes just let me review them.
PM then went off to do GDC ignoring Sam's pleadings.
Then the "oh, yeah, the whole premise is a mobile game with micro-transactions, oh sorry must use the marketing term, "invest to play", and then the hypocrisy was too much so he gave notice.

Mathew is an intern given the job no one wants. He has just gotten to the "how do I tell them, 'yeah, the design plan..., um PM is right on it, just needs a bit more cleaning up so isn't naughty.", knowing full well there either isn't and never has been one or the exact steaming PoS cash grab was the intent all along and PM committed fraud in the kickstarter.

rough job. no envy.

I don't think Matthew is an intern. By the looks of his linkedin profile he's got plenty of experience.

And he didn't get given a job nobody wants, he grabbed it with both hands. This is what he does. As far as I can see he is a community manager and has been in the past. His job is basically to keep people sweet. He'll spin words, and agree with people and jump into threads and chat and try to convince everyone that stuff is happening, regardless of what's really going on. His job is to convince you that he's a gamer just like you and with a bit more patience Godus is going to be great. Just like what Sam was doing...

Except, Matthew isn't a developer having to take on an additional PR responsibility; this is what he does.

Hi everyone, Matthew Allen here! I've been lurking around these forums for a couple of months now, but figured it was time I got myself registered over here and say hello. So...hello! Just wanted to pop in and assure you guys that I've not disappeared and that my fervor for this community is just as high as it's ever been (probably higher, if I'm being honest). The reason for this is that I've been very hard at work behind the scenes over the last few weeks and although I might not be posting 20+ times a day I still lurk and pop into the forums to post daily in addition to collating and organizing feedback and all that fun stuff.

So what's got me so jazzed up? We just welcomed aboard a new member of the team named George Kelion. George will be helping to head up the community team in the office and in the brief period of time (two days now) that I've worked with him, I can tell you that I'm very excited about what he's going to bring to the table. You know all those community ideas and requests that you've been voicing and that I've been laying some preliminary groundwork on? Now that this groundwork is put in place, coupled with the fact that George and I will be partnering up on all this, means that we'll finally be able to get the ball rolling on so many things; things that I've been mentioning and working on regularly over the past few months. They're now very close to getting put in place. I know that it might seem a bit ridiculous of me to ask for even more of your patience, but do know that some great things are brewing on the community side of things right now and that having George in place will mean that you'll have yet another individual on the team that's going to support this community in some really great ways which will, in turn, help support the game itself by making sure your voice and feedback impacts the game in the way that it should.

Also, George will be making a proper introduction sometime next week. We just wanted to get a few preliminary things taken care of first as we wanted to make sure we actually had something to show for our efforts when he introduced himself, as opposed to just a well intentioned introduction. He joined us only yesterday, so yesterday was primarily dedicated to getting him settled into the office and attending some preliminary meetings and saying hello to team members and getting his desk sorted and all that fun stuff (in addition to me personally trying to resist pulling any 'first day' pranks on him). Today's only his second day on the job and he's wanting to get as familiar with the game as possible, which I'm sure we can all agree makes perfect sense. Over the next few days and week we'll be pulling many late nights to get him registered in all the various communities, getting him proper access set up, and more importantly discussing some community initiatives and ideas that have been brewing for a while.

Anyhow, just wanted to assure you that I've still been hard at work and that you guys aren't rid of me yet and, even better, we've added another team member whose sole job is to work with and support the GODUS community. On the development side of things I know that you've all been waiting for a handful of weeks for the next update and we hope to have more to share on this soon. On the community side of things, George will be introducing himself and getting to know you all more closely next week. I know it's been a bit of a wait, and I genuinely understand that you guys are anxious, but some really great stuff is just around the corner. Talk is cheap, I know, but I can't tell you how excited I am to see some of this community stuff finally coming to a head and we'll have some proof in the proverbial pudding very soon. Thanks again for your patience, your candid thoughts, and your passion in wanting to see GODUS reach its fullest potential. See you around the community!

Howdy.  I appreciate your being here.

Tell them, "hi, welcome.", please.

Bringing a scrapping of the P2W touch screen, utterly dumbed down, insultingly offensive, and kindergarten age mechanics resulting from the "bait and switch" to a mobile game?

Removed the fluff, as a test for readability.

Lots of words weren't needed there to make his message. Oh dear.