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PwerlvlAmy said:
I actually applaud the interview for being aggressive. Peter's bs needs to stop lol


This x2. This was a long time coming.



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oh come on, the interviewer is annoying because Molyneux is the biggest liar in the video game industry. The interview is 100% accurate to express annoyance from the fanbases, after all it's absurd that people donating 100+ Euros for this game's development, it reached its goal, and its been delayed for years. it's just terribly poor organization and planning on Molyneux and his team's side

 

I understand traditionally an interviewer is supposed to ask questions in a relatively unbiased manner, but in this case this guy Peter is just an absolute tool. him repeating over and over that his lies were simply him getting excited and exaggerating with 'hope' is just stupid. lame.



GhaudePhaede010 said:

He lied to people on kickstart and then just blamed kickstart by saying he should lie to con people into giving him money. How can anyone be, "solidly" on his side?


people are just too soft, the ones defending him and acting like he's getting a hard wrap don't include anyone who donated or who has previously donated to game projects and been let down like this 

literally legally speaking Molyneux probably already could be sued (if he had big enough donors) as their is something really suspicious with his claims and the actual developmental time of this game



Teeqoz said:
naruball said:
What a horrendous interview. I'm surprised the "journalist" didn't pull a knife on him or something. There's aggressive and then there's that. There's no way I would have continued the interview had I been in Molyneux's shoes. I'm utterly disgusted.


With these questions I'm surprised Moluneux didn't pull a knife on the journalist...

 

Peter might have overpromised and underdelivered on a lot of occations, but this is just being a pure asshole against him. You can ask people out on mistakes without being a dick.

mistakes? sorry but tricking people to donate to your game with fake descriptions, release dates, rewards for donors, etc. etc. etc. that's a bit more extreme



That interviewer makes molyneux look like the sympathetic person.



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I say while the interview is long, and it gets emotional from the interviewer stand point. It was really NECESSARY. Someone should hold him ACCOUNTABLE.



 

I think that the interviewer was a dick, but that Peter did a terrible job of answering the questions. I mean Peter says he has ALWAYS taken longer than expected to make a game.

OK! So if you ALWAYS take longer then why don't you account for that when you tell people how long it will take you to make a game?!

He doesn't have any credibility anymore. He lost it with Fable 3.



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3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

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mountaindewslave said:

the ones defending him and acting like he's getting a hard wrap don't include anyone who donated or who has previously donated to game projects and been let down like this

Probably true. I'm really resisting the urge to be smug right now!



Terrible interviewer. And I say this as someone who HATES the sort of person Molyneux is and who just wishes he'd go back to a big publisher and never, ever try crowdfunding anything he makes ever again, while also never talking to the press while he's at it. I also say it as someone who firmly believes that anytime Molyneux hypes up a new game (like the one he is already talking about before Godus' corpse has cooled) every media outlet on the planet should include, with their report on the new game, a detailed list on Molyneux's many, many, many broken assurances and starry-eyed fictitious shortcomings, just to make sure that even the most fresh-faced consumer is well aware how full of nonsense the man is. Heck, I even say it as someone who'd WANT to have seen Molyneux get finally called on his bull and held accountable to the actions he always shrugs off with 'Yup, totally my fault, BUT MY NEXT GAME WILL BE AWESOMESAUCE!'

So why do I disapprove of the interviewer? Because it IS too aggressive. I'm not saying 'Poor Peter,' I'm saying 'Jesus, Maintain Control Of The Narrative, Walker!' As frustrating as Molyneux's evasions, half-truths and either-foolishly-or-conveniently-terrible-memory was, you need to highlight his lies, his inconsistencies, his foolish qualities, present them in such a way that the reader cannot fail to miss them, and then move on. Do not try to convince the MAN you are interviewing that they exist, especially when he is so notoriously hard to pin down on anything as Molyneux. This isn't about Molyneux, as unfortunately no legal action can be taken for his particular brand of Snake-Oil-ness, but instead about creating a concise and rock solid piece of journalism that, for a new generation of readers, will introduce them to 'Why You Should Not Trust Peter Molyneux,' and for an older generation of readers who already kiiiind of know he schtick, hammer home just how extensive it is. Sure, Molyneux can choose to defend himself if he so chooses, but he should be the one trying to lay siege to Walker's castle, as it were, not the other way around, and simply because Molyneux's attempts to justify his actions would only serve to highlight just how unjustifiable they all are.

Heck, I've known Molyneux was like this for years, but it wasn't until I saw the most recent Jimquisition on the subject, (basically, pointing out the cycle of Molyneux hyping up his new game while trashing the old one, great episode, unforgiving tone but NOT nearly as combative as this article's interviewer,) I didn't know just how incredibly CONSISTENT and predictable it was. o_O The man has basically gotten away with pulling the exact same trick over and over and over and over, and this is the first time to memory anyone's really pointed it out to him.



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badgenome said:
gooch_destroyer said:

Fuck that interviewer.

It's not a great first question. But it's not entirely unwarranted, either. Some of this stuff is just incredible.

Peter Molyneux: Again you’re going down a very emotional line. But it’s born out of– when I did Curiosity and I thought of putting into the center of the cube a royalty share of the revenue for Godus, as soon as his role of God of Gods started, I thought that was a pretty good thing. And as soon as that comes to pass and as soon as we’ve got the technology to do that, I think, he will be getting that money and his reign will last six months and I think it will be an amazing feature.

RPS: OK, so you said that Bryan will be God Of Gods for six months. Just to double-check on this. When we spoke to you on 2012 you told us that it would be a significant amount of time, you estimated five or ten years.

Peter Molyneux: We what?

RPS: You said five or ten years, is what you told us.

Peter Molyneux: For what?

RPS: For being God Of Gods.

Peter Molyneux: No, I’ve always said that his reign would only last a certain amount of time but the God of Gods role, if Godus continues to be as successful as it is on mobile, could last that long. I mean there are mobile games that are being played now – and there are webgames that are being played now – that are decades old.

RPS: Let me quote, you said: “By the way, there would need to be enough time to make it meaningful for him in every sense of the word, but we could make it five years, we could make it ten years. I think I wanted before–”

Peter Molyneux: And then later on I came out and said it would be six months. And I said that again and again. What are you trying to do? You’re trying to prove that I’m a pathological liar, I suppose, aren’t you.

RPS: I’m trying to establish that you don’t tell the truth.



 

 

"We could" is not a promise. It's merely stating that it's a possibility. Had he said, "we WILL", than that quote would mean something.