Molyneux: industry wasn't ready for Milo & Kate

[Mr Khan]

Acevil said:

TruckOSaurus said:
The bottom line is that Milo & Kate would have been a really really boring game (and also slightly creepy).

I am pretty sure many would have said that to Nintendo about Nintendogs, but Nintendogs worked out for Nintendo. I think a huge market exists for simulated kids, that play with you. Namely for kids. 

However I don't think Molyneux could make such a product. 

It only sounds creepy because of American paranoia about pedophilia. It's gotten around to the same point as the paranoia about homosexuality, where in the case of Milo and Kate it wouldn't be weird because pedophiles might like it, it would be weird because liking it might make you a pedophile (like how American culture proscribes doing "gay" things like antiquing or drinky fruity alcoholic drinks, because if you enjoy it, then you must be gay or people will think you are, even if they, at the same time, think there's nothing wrong with being gay per se)

The point is that it sounds like a bad idea, but really wouldn't be, and also shouldn't sound like a bad idea. What Molyneux described was a good idea, the problem was he described it with the bitter undertone of "we made something that was too good for all of you, so fuck you all, we didn't release it." The key takeaway was that it really wasn't a viable project the way he pursued it, not that it isn't a viable project, which is where he comes off sounding a bit like a liar in this case.