june gloom on 29/5/2013 at 19:07
I don't actually care one way or another. You're being an asshole. Apologize to the man.
henke on 13/2/2015 at 16:30
My favourite quote was Peter saying, a good hour into the interview, "Let’s carry on going. Let’s make me more depressed.". That was a pretty phenomenal interview, there were times when I felt for both of them. I don't think Molyneux is a bad guy. He's a guy who dreams big and gets swept up in his own wild ideas, and occasionally he even delivers. What disasters like this, Stephenson's CLANG, and that Yogscast game shows is that if you're gonna overpromise and underdeliver it's way worse to be funded by regular people. Your public image isn't going to be ruined just because you burnt through the money of a bunch of rich investors in a board room somewhere while chasing your impossible idea. Burn through the fanbase's money though? Not good.
Renault on 13/2/2015 at 16:48
This particular quote re: Kickstarter really rubbed me the wrong way:
Quote:
"There's this overwhelming urge to over-promise because it's such a harsh rule: if you're one penny short of your target then you don't get it. And of course in this instance, 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 f**k's sake, lets just say anything'. So I'm not sure I would do that again."
What kind of a scumbag thinks that way? Yeah, blame Kickstarter, that's the answer. This guy is supposedly an industry maven, and he's acting like some amateur dude who's trying to publish his first game. He deserves every ounce of criticism he receives, IMO.
Tony_Tarantula on 13/2/2015 at 17:19
Honestly, I'm kind of used to it by now. Game development seems to attract a disproportionate number of immature man-children
henke on 13/2/2015 at 17:43
Much like gaming in general then.
Starker on 13/2/2015 at 20:55
This has to be the most awkward interview I've ever read.
Quote:
Peter Molyneux: What are you doing at the moment John? You’re trying to find any crack you can to actually destroy us. That’s what this article is going to do, isn’t it?
RPS: I think I’ve found enough cracks already. I think what I’ve done there is fill in one, that’s brilliant news. I’m really glad that that existed and that you did it and that’s good.
Peter Molyneux: Well what cracks have you found?
RPS: [laughs] I think with the whole conversation.
It's hard not to imagine John Walker jumping up and down and fist pumping.
Fafhrd on 14/2/2015 at 00:12
I couldn't get through much more than a fraction of that interview, since John basically started it off in the most combative way possible and it went downhill from there. But at the same time, it's been far past time for the press to start calling Molyneux on his shit.
I feel really bad for all the guys at 22Cans who aren't Peter, since having worked there can't be anything other than a black mark on a CV at this point.
Malf on 14/2/2015 at 08:19
'cept that Jack bloke in the videos. Something about him annoys the piss out of me.
Sulphur on 14/2/2015 at 09:39
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
I couldn't get through much more than a fraction of that interview, since John basically started it off in the most combative way possible and it went downhill from there.
Same. Peter should get called out on the stuff he does, but that interview was a disgrace for the entire site because of its assholishness. There's a difference between interviewing someone and trying to cave their face in with a hammer, and this interview was the latter. If John had just presented the facts without exposing the awfulness of his own personality, that would have been enough. As it stands, it reads like an angry douchebag forcefully yanking someone's chain for schlock entertainment value and website hits.
Ridiculous. Molyneux should be asked to face the facts and answer the difficult questions with as little waffling as possible, but this interview was one of the most unprofessional things I've seen a gaming website do.
Walker: you need to dial it down. And even though the man's in the wrong, you probably owe him an apology. It's not on, and it's not good for you or the reputation of your media site when the interviewer seems to be doing worse at being human than the person being interviewed.
