Peter Molyneux Calls Microsoft a "Creative Padded Cell"

[synobal]

I'd never make it at Microsoft, my first day at work at my current job I brought in a huge bean bag chair and stuff it into my office and then work from there. My boss didn't seem to mind, though some of my clients gave me some odd looks. How are they going to adjust my chair huh?! huh?!

 

[Icehearted]

Peter Molyneux making a remark about padded cells? Why oh why did I laugh so hard?

 

[xPixelatedx]

I don't like this guy, and I find his promises on Fable to always be horrific exaggerations and his recent games simplistic drivel.

That said; good for him. I am glad to see someone so high up start to realize they aren't in an environment that promotes creativity or imagination at all.

 

[MartianWarMachine]

Endearing, is the word I've been using.

I always say he's kind of like a video game character in and of himself.

Both of these work for me o.o

if i had to choose? Peter. his kinda loony is better then Microsoft's kind of loony

ether way, will he finally do all the stuff he says he will?

Yes, it i x3

By the Emperor, I hope he does o.o

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Chair. Adjustment. Personnel. I don't know how, I don't know why, but SOMEHOW this is Obama's fault.

That should totally be the slogan for the Republican party in the next Presidential elections. I mean, it pretty much already is...

 

[Lugbzurg]

And I thought putting those plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces sounded like a looney job.

I mean, it's like... They could probably have five-year-olds doing thing. No older.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Well, at least him leaving MS has made him a bit more humble.

 

[Jumplion]

Man, I just cannot dislike Molyneux, he's just so goddamn passionate about what he does. He is definitely his own worst critic, always striving to do the best goddamn job he can and please as many people as he can, and in that regard I can relate to him to an extent.

Sure, he makes lavish promises that often times he can't keep, but damnit, he wouldn't make those promises if he didn't want to keep them. The guy's a real trooper, I tell you. Keep doing what you're doing, the industry could use more passion like you have, Molyneux

 

[Hitchmeister]

I don't think posturepedically is an actual word.

 

[Klonoa Prower]

Just for reference, this "Chair Adjustment Personnel" person has probably been canned due to getting Peter Molyneux to quit.

 

[Craorach]

I completely agree with him, if my employer hired someone to do this crap I'd tell them where to shove it.

Yes, staff OHS is important, it should also be their own responsibility. You are provided with chairs, if you don't want to sit in them properly that's your own fault.

Offices all over the world seem to be filled with this garbage, when a better solution to any "sitting too long" related problem is to allow your staff to get up and walk around on a regular basis without harassing them, and to employ enough staff that nobody needs to work overtime or be overly stressed.

 

[Lancer873]

Microsoft chair adjustment personnel... Not sure if I should follow that up with "Is the name of my alt-pop-rock band" or "dot tumblr dot com"

 

[SPF18]

Honestly, it sort of seems like he's making an excuse to me - but I guess we'll see come his next game.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

Hahahaha. So Peter was in the midst of a Coleridgian burst of inspiration when a modern day person from Porlock came and blew his creative high. "Fuck this", said Pete, "these conditions are positively Orwellian."

Only Molyneux could find a way to spin a story about what are probably regulation OH&S practices in a way that sounds like he's being watched by the thought police. Ergonomics in the workplace are actually a pretty serious thing, everyone I know who has a desk job has at some point had someone come to check they're not sitting in a chair that doesn't support them properly: because in our litigative-driven culture if you develop a curved back from sitting in a crappy chair 8 hours a day you could probably sue. But hey, fuck possibly getting a more comfortable workspace if it means you can be interrupted dreaming about what extra bodily functions you can cram into your next game and call it 'social interaction'.

 

[SargentToughie]

Wow... gotta give ol' Peter credit where credit is due. He may be one or two steps away from a REAL padded cell of his own, but the guy absolutely loves what he does. Who else can genuinely say that they would leave a job where they HAD to be making more money then any of us could ever hope for, just to try and create a truly great game and take that chance.

More modern day game designers should have the balls that this guy's got. As an aspiring designer myself, I'm actually rather impressed.

PART 2: That, and yeah, he may fall on his face every now and again, but he still has the ambition to try new things and try to create something grand. I mean, I get the feeling that he genuinely does love each fable game that comes out, even though they're not really the greatest games ever.

It's ages better then what Activision has been doing ever since they hit the Modern Warfare goldmine.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Peter Molyneux Calls Microsoft a "Creative Padded Cell"

Yes, it is. And...?

I'm waiting for Molyneux to start a Kickstarter campaign. I just want to see what wildly implausible things he'll fail to deliver for the upper-echelon contribution amounts.

Given his history, I wouldn't fund it, because I wouldn't get it until the day after he dies.

 

[Archemetis]

You mean to tell me that I can't even find a job filling shelves but there are people at Microsoft who are legitimately being paid to screw around with chairs?

'Tis a dark, dark world we live in...

 

[vxicepickxv]

Microsoft chair adjustment personnel... Not sure if I should follow that up with "Is the name of my alt-pop-rock band" or "dot tumblr dot com"

What about Creative Padded Cell? I think I'll call that one for my indie-pop band.

 

[weirdee]

Thing is, Molyneux's old office actually WAS a padded cell, of which no such thing as a chair, or people, had ever actually entered the room in years.

 

[Sansha]

I still prefer to imagine Peter Molyneux as the magical, omnipresent, disembodied head Yahtzee portrays him as.

But, good on him for this decision.
I've always admired his ambition and constantly listening to player feedback. Every Fable game he makes is another attempt at getting everything right, adding and removing according to feedback.