Again with the overpromising.
Press X to doubt.
Another overpromise to put previous overpromises to shame.
Godus anyone?
And I loved Godus. Such engaging gameplay
IIRC I played it a little and it was just mobile microtransaction hell after a certain point, no?
It’s been awhile since I played Godus, but I don’t remember micro transactions. May have forgotten, but remember it just being a super simplified version of populous. I only played in early access though, not sure on changes or if it ever had a full release.
Sounds like a big promise.
Not the Onion material.
I actually forgot about this clown. The Elon Musk of gaming.
BURN
lol
I don’t believe him…
I’m not sure that Pete has actually played a game he wasn’t directly involved with since like… 2010?
What we’ve seen of his new game really isn’t that interesting in the modern landscape. Maybe a decade ago it would have been fresh and had enough of a hook to compete for gamers’ attention, but today? It looks pretty forgettable.
Then when you consider Molyneux’s propensity towards feature creep, it’s probably safe to assume that even if the game is a ‘success’ by most conventional metrics, it won’t be profitable because the amount of money spent to make the damn thing will have been completely insane.
Arguably the issue isn’t so much in the gaming landscape as the history behind the game.
His previous “game” was a crypto/NFT scam where they sold land (as NFTs) to people who were speculating they could make IRL money from renting out this “land” to plebs.
It was a complete failure. I played it for an hour on a free sever (or something similar). The gameplay was complete shit, it was tedious and grindy (like mobile titles), a repetitive and uninspired experience, graphics were ugly, the multiplayer elements didn’t really make much sense.
All the NFT buyers got destroyed while Molyneux collected tens of millions.
Allegedly that money was used to “invest” in Masters of Albion.
But the real kicker is that Masters of Albion seems to be based on that NFT scam game engine (which IMO is beyond saving).
I wouldn’t be surprised if this a managed exit from his previous crypto/NFT scam “game”.
Scamming a bunch of NFT idiots is an arguably better funding model than promising a bunch of stuff to Kickstarter backers that you aren’t going to deliver on.
I would prefer if neither one was a thing.
I can’t even finish the trailer with how boring and stale it looks. Calling it pretty forgettable is stating it nicely… I’m convinced this game will be released and nobody will even notice. He even sounds bored out of his mind himself.
Maybe there is a market of mobile gamers gone PC that he’s trying to capture, much like Godus? I don’t see how this will entice anyone else.
Basically he has no clout left, even though I still wish for a good Black and White sequel, B&W 2 doesn’t count.
Carnie promoter says carnie shit, more news at 5
He’s like that shitty husband that keeps cheating and getting caught, and keeps saying he has changed.
I ultimately don’t think he’s a bad guy so I’m rooting for him to show us wrong.
I think he always just believed in his vision too much and didn’t realise that he and his team couldn’t end up delivering on it. And then he’d be so excited about what he’s working on that he just couldn’t not share it with others. I don’t think he ever intended to mislead.
I know there’s the milo thing but with that I feel like he still thought they could do it in the end but Microsoft just needed something right there and then to show. I think that issue ends up more squarely on whoever sold him on what the hardware could do and he had not yet fully hit those walls of limitations enough to realise they weren’t coming down at all. (I also think this goes for Sean Murray too when he did the talk show circuit that Sony put him on - although without the hardware stuff and more on whether or not they could deliver on time since they’ve shown what they wanted was actually possible with future updates)
I’m taking the bait again for old times sake if nothing else. I hope he proves everyone wrong, it will be a fantastic end to his saga, and we’ll get something great.
When we’re let down again, we’ll still have something fun to play with and getting tricked by Molyneuxs big ideas will be like opening a time capsule from a more civilised age.
This is true. Black and White might have been awkward and buggy but it pioneered a whole sub-genre.
Oh yeah, falling for Molyneuxs hype again. Take me back to when things made sense. Thats the good stuff.
Alexa play Little Lies
Bullshit
