Peter Molyneux drama is delicious.
I’m genuinely more surprised that it was still being sold. Wow.
No, it was on sale.
It is like fishing, and catching fish are different things.
I just wanted a successor to black & white God damnit. What a letdown it turned out to be.
I’ve been trying out The Universim recently. It has a lot of the same ideas, but gets rid of many which I felt didn’t work. Most notably, there is no creature bound to your will. I think the game is better for the omission. Version 1.0 is slated for January, and is supposed to include interplanetary colonization.
That’s the whole point of Black and White though?
I remember all the marketing and promises for Black and White 2 that were never realised. It doesn’t feel like they really managed the first sequel, let alone another one.
I remember playing this game when it first came out as a mobile game. Super cool concept, but I also remember hearing the drama from the start. I definitely thought this game had been abandoned a looong time ago.
I remember that during the development of Black & White they had a journalist writing about its development and how exciting it was going to be.
Black & White got realized, but these interviews seemed a very fishy way of hyping the game and it’s when I got wary of Molyneaux grand claims
I’ll always have a soft spot for mr. Molyneux. Yeah his plans don’t always work out but he’s a real visionary, not (intentionally :p) a scam artist.
Idk…telling lies to potential customers that you know to be bullshit to get money from them based on promises you know you’ll never deliver sure sounds like a scam artist to me:
(From the article)
Molyneux talked in interviews about the pressure to overpromise in order to secure funding, telling Tech Radar that “the behaviour is incredibly destructive, which is ‘Christ, we’ve only got 10 days to go and we’ve got to make £100,000, for fuck’s sake, lets just say anything’.”
I always thought he wanted to be the Steve Jobs of the gaming world and never found his signature product to sell his success.
