I think this thread confirms one thing: Codexers literarily give more of a fuck about sticking it to the SJWs than hating shitty video games and people scamming them of their money.
"HURR, MOLYNEUX DID SOME BAD THINGS BUT JOHN WALKER WAS A MEANIE TO HIM"
Fuck you and your bullshit. Peter Molyneux took over half a million pounds and just took a shit on them, doing whatever the fuck he wanted and not following one simple promise. Even some shmuck like Tim Schafer (and anyone who've read the DF threads knows I hate him as much as the next guy) was never this big of an asshole. For all that counts, at least you can't buy ingame items (for now) with real life money in Spacebase DF9 or whatever. At least he didn't promise some poor sod some money and fame and gave him the finger. And whatever he did wrong, we criticized him for it just as much as we do this asshole.
I don't give one tiny amount of fuck of who John Walker is and what did he do with his life. He means literal zero to anyone actually giving a fuck about video games in this day and age. He didn't just scam people of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars by abusing their nostalgia and memories of good video games. He's as relevant to the general context as Infinitron or me or anyone on this forum are.
Peter Molyneux means/meant much more, due to his past history of making both good and disappointing and absolute shit games. Whores like him and Warren Spector or Ken Levine, with their pretentious speeches and lack of proof to show anything worthwhile for the last 10+ years, those are the real problem in here. People who are venerated by hundreds and thousands of people for no explicit fucking reason and who fool their audiences into throwing tons of money at their feet. While the raw, passionate and young talent sit in the dust and and is happy if their campaign gets a few tens of canadian dollars.
I'd say fuck Fargo too but at least that one tried to fulfill his promises and he succeeded for the most part. Wasteland 2 was not the greatest thing ever made but it's a fun romp and it does its job. When the games needed extra money, he gave them out of his own pocket, not make a phone version with publisher deals and other bullshit. Even if InXile has done a lot of shady bullshit, it wasn't as blatant or annoying as project Godus or Star Citizen.
Remember when Fargo was talking about some social network implementation in W2? Remember the backlash and how they quickly changed their minds?
If Peter Molyneux was in charge of InXile, not only would Wasteland 2 have Facebook integration, but he would also hype it as the most original and most interesting thing he ever did in his life and the reason why he's so forward-thinking. And you'd also have to pay extra if you don't want it.
So no, RPS was actually quite nice to him by starting the interview with that pathological liar question. If I was doing the interview, my first reply would've been to tell Peter to go fuck himself.
That's 6 years. It would take 8 hours a day every day for 18 years to do that many hours of interviews. Common tactic of people who lie constantly to use hyperbole and pity to defend themselves. I'd be willing to bet he doesn't work 16 hours a day regularly either, but who knows. If he does and he's sacrificing his family's needs just to put out this game, that still doesn't absolve him of his responsibility to consumers. It also just makes him look like a shitty father and husband. Your family problems aren't relevant when it comes to a reporter asking if you should refund the backers' money.
