Project GODUS, the ultimate Peter Molyneux fiasco

[Astral Rag]

 

[Mr. Pink]

Year 3191:
Several centuries after humanity was wiped out, deep underground, one man remains.
a rotting corpse without eyes or mouth kept alive by machines and sheer hatred,
still waiting for a response from 22 Cans Studios.

 

[Astral Rag]

Edit:

 

[Astral Rag]

Community Herald: Volume 103 (Year 5, Week 43)

22Cans may be working on another Godus unrelated project.
https://twitter.com/spphillips/status/923235385353924609

Molyneux and Godus were featured in an article called "10 corporate♥♥♥♥♥♥moves in gaming history".
http://www.pcgamer.com/10-corporate-dick-moves-in-gaming-history/

Game status
Radio silence. The 5th and final cycle?
Last Godus game update: 2. April 2015 (940 days ago) - Easter reskin
Last Godus opt-in update: 27. March 2015 (946 days ago) - Very basic combat
Last Godus Wars game update: 2. March 2016 (605 days ago) - Champions & Third Continent
Last official post for Godus: 3. February 2016 (633 days ago) - Godus Wars
Last official post for Godus Wars: 18. March 2016 (589 days ago) - Birthday Sale

Godus is free-to-play and finished

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[SausageInYourFace]

How do they expect to ever recover from this? Whats the point of shifting resources to a different game when your first game is such a massive fiasko, in fact even a fraudulent one, that releasing another game will only cause an epic shitstorm, regardless of what actual qualities the new game might have? Can they not see that they and their reputation are done for?

 

[Astral Rag]

How do they expect to ever recover from this? Whats the point of shifting resources to a different game when your first game is such a massive fiasko, in fact even a fraudulent one, that releasing another game will only cause an epic shitstorm, regardless of what actual qualities the new game might have? Can they not see that they and their reputation are done for?

gamers are not learning animals

http://store.steampowered.com/app/584370/The_Trail_Frontier_Challenge/

 

[LESS T_T]

Steam version seems flopped though (despite generally positive reviews).

Opposed to the seemingly very successful mobile versions: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.thetrail.google

Installs
5,000,000 - 10,000,000

 

[SausageInYourFace]

Oh god, jesus. I'd rate that facepalm if I could.

 

[Astral Rag]

Opposed to the seemingly very successful mobile versions: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kongregate.mobile.thetrail.google

Installs
5,000,000 - 10,000,000

 

[Astral Rag]

Inactivity Report 116 (Year 6, Week 4)
I started doing these with the intention to roundup all the news surrounding the development of Godus. But since there were basically none for the last two years, I think a rename is in order. If you have a better idea for the title let me know.

Game status
Radio silence. The 5th and final cycle?
Last Godus game update: 2. April 2015 (1031 days ago) - Easter reskin
Last Godus opt-in update: 27. March 2015 (1037 days ago) - Very basic combat
Last Godus Wars game update: 2. March 2016 (696 days ago) - Champions & Third Continent
Last official post for Godus: 3. February 2016 (724 days ago) - Godus Wars
Last official post for Godus Wars: 18. March 2016 (680 days ago) - Birthday Sale

Godus is free-to-play and finished - SOURCE[web.archive.org]

Reporting Godus
(the flag icon on the store page > Fraud/Broken/Legal violation)

• It has been YEARS since the last Godus update.
  
• We haven't heard from 22Cans since 18. March 2016.
  
• They provide no tech support. Their support desk is offline.
  
• According to their creative lead and company owner, Godus is FINISHED.
  
• The game is still being falsely advertised and sold on Steam Early Access.

Store page links:
Godus
Godus Wars

 

[Astral Rag]

Inactivity Report 121 (Year 6, Week 9)
Looks like they ported The Trail to the Switch.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-02-28-peter-molyneuxs-the-trail-out-on-nintendo-switch

Game status
Radio silence. The 5th and final cycle?
Last Godus game update: 2. April 2015 (1052 days ago) - Easter reskin
Last Godus opt-in update: 27. March 2015 (1065 days ago) - Very basic combat
Last Godus Wars game update: 2. March 2016 (724 days ago) - Champions & Third Continent
Last official post for Godus: 3. February 2016 (753 days ago) - Godus Wars
Last official post for Godus Wars: 18. March 2016 (708 days ago) - Birthday Sale

Godus is free-to-play and finished - SOURCE[web.archive.org]

Reporting Godus
(the flag icon on the store page > Fraud/Broken/Legal violation)

• It has been YEARS since the last Godus update.
  
• We haven't heard from 22Cans since 18. March 2016.
  
• They provide no tech support. Their support desk is offline.
  
• According to their creative lead and company owner, Godus is FINISHED.
  
• The game is still being falsely advertised and sold on Steam Early Access.

 

[Astral Rag]

Inactivity Report 136 (Year 6, Week 24)
Game status
Radio silence. The 5th and final cycle?
Last Godus game update: 2. April 2015 (1164 days ago) - Easter reskin
Last Godus opt-in update: 27. March 2015 (1177 days ago) - Very basic combat
Last Godus Wars game update: 2. March 2016 (836 days ago) - Champions & Third Continent
Last official post for Godus: 3. February 2016 (765 days ago) - Godus Wars
Last official post for Godus Wars: 18. March 2016 (826 days ago) - Birthday Sale

Godus is free-to-play and finished - SOURCE[web.archive.org]

Reporting Godus
(the flag icon on the store page > Fraud/Broken/Legal violation)

• It has been YEARS since the last Godus update.
  
• We haven't heard from 22Cans since 18. March 2016.
  
• They provide no tech support. Their support desk is offline.
  
• According to their creative lead and company owner, Godus is FINISHED.
  
• The game is still being falsely advertised and sold on Steam Early Access.

Store page links:
Godus
Godus Wars

 

[Makabb]

Isnt Molyneux making a new game

 

[Kruno]

Didn't the courts take away his right to make new games?

 

[Eli_Havelock]

IT LIVES!

18 months to change engines because the one they picked died (RIP Marmalade), The Trail was Le Fail of a literal walking simulator, Curiosity already blew its load and left the bastard child god Bryan Henderson out on the street (a clicker with a finite shelf life - fucking genius), and I think everyone knows by now NFT Legacy was going to turn into making the most elegant industrialized Peter jokes, so they had to turn towards something they could exploit.

Oh my. 18 months? That's longer than it took us to develop the original release. Wow. How much platform dependent code did we add that it could take that long? That's crazy. I've engine ported a few games in my time, and the longest was a two month job going from Unreal to unity, and that takes a language change from C++ to C#.

At least it's not... that... again...

 

[covr]

This news is almost one year old

 

[Eli_Havelock]

This news is almost one year old

The funny part is that hardly anyone really noticed then. Recently, there's been some more movement on the PC version for internal testing and the mobile update that more expanded units recently:


A PC update is probable if it meets their satisfaction.

 

[Agesilaus]

I just want a populous 2 update, is that too much to ask for

 

[Eli_Havelock]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/319560/Reprisal_Universe/

And if you're feeling particularly masochistic
https://store.steampowered.com/app/238890/Skyward_Collapse/

But even this is closer to Populous than Godus:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/352720/The_Universim/

 

[Agesilaus]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/319560/Reprisal_Universe/

And if you're feeling particularly masochistic
https://store.steampowered.com/app/238890/Skyward_Collapse/

But even this is closer to Populous than Godus:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/352720/The_Universim/

I've played Reprisal, but at the time it wasn't on steam. It was a browser based game and was definitely a fun experience, but it fell far short of Populous 2. It had the right paintjob and mechanics, but was a fraction of the game. They should have made something of the same breadth, or even expanded it, rather than put out some tiny little demo version.

Skyward Collapse just annoys me. Can't work up the motivation to play universim (does it even have greek heroes, why bother). Thank you for reminding me of Reprisal though.

 

[Fedora Master]

You had to bump the thread for this?

 

[Eli_Havelock]

You had to bump the thread for this?

A likely PC update seemed like a good reason, if just to see what tricks Peter has his new victims performing. There was some changes to a few of 22cans' Steam DB stuff back in March and now there's another update they're showing. Who knows, maybe by ditching Marmalade they might actually do something here?

 

[Mr. Pink]

The last inactivity report. Man has ascended samsara some time last year.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/422420/discussions/3/3104642254793792509/