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Fei-Hung on 13 May 2016
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pokoko said:
SvennoJ said:

I'm glad someone else actually read the full article.

Kinda funny how this one little marketing issue is blown up to portray MS as the bad guy, while if you read the article, Peter Molyneux was a far more destructive force on his own people. The whole Milo and Kate episode was all Molyneux which he simply couldn't let go. Several times during his career his ambitions got the better of him, which marked the turning points in the studio, adding to its ultimate demise.
The acorn. Or, according to one former Lionhead developer, "that fucking acorn." sums it up nicely.

He's a great visionary that inspired a lot of people and made some great things, yet not suited to lead a big development studio. I hope he can get back to former Bullfrog glory at 22cans, although Godus is not a good start.

I still don't know what to make of Molyneux.  One paragraph, someone is talking about a brilliant idea he had, then the next, they're talking about him lying to the public and how his late additions almost screwed everything up. 

The Milo and Kate stuff, though, even with his excuses, it just sounds like a disaster.  What he supposedly envisioned sounds like something that is still years away from being possible, even with VR.

Also, to be honest, some of those Lionhead guys seem like assholes.  They made a LOT of poor decisions even before the Xbox One mandates started rolling in.

 

It's just my own thoughts on molly but I think he was given more credit than he deserved from the PC simulation game era and he never managed to live up to the pedestal he was put on, but felt as if he had to say things to make up for his short comings. 

 

By no means am I saying he was rubbish, but he never lived up to the status, and this article even states Fable wasn't his game. 

 

Your point about the devs there was the thing that annoyed me about the shortened rip off article, where so much has been spoken about yet people are fixated on a very tiny aspect out of a huge conversation with barely any context. 

 

I'm not the greatest fan of MS, but the article was pure clickbait.