Peter Molyneux Is Not Retiring Any Time Soon

[AldUK]

I honestly took his original quote to mean he was planning to retire after Godus. So I'm a little surprised, but hey, love him or hate him, the man's been an important figure in game development for a while now. Whether he's been important in the sense of his own games or in the sense of other developers learning what to avoid, well, your mileage may vary.

 

[Evil Smurf]

keep making games, you beautiful bastard.

 

[Olrod]

"I'll retire when I die," he said. "Or when people tell me to shut up, I guess."

We've been telling you to shut up ever since you released the beta version of Fable 2, but you've just had your fingers in your ears going "la-la-la I can't hear you!".

So we'll tell you again: SHUT UP!

Who's "we"? I've been shouting "KEEP 'EM COMING" non-stop for the past eight years.

So, Peter,

KEEP 'EM COMING!

OT: Cool. I like Molyneux's projects.

So you LIKE half-assed, unfinished games with zero QA testing before release?

 

[lacktheknack]

"I'll retire when I die," he said. "Or when people tell me to shut up, I guess."

We've been telling you to shut up ever since you released the beta version of Fable 2, but you've just had your fingers in your ears going "la-la-la I can't hear you!".

So we'll tell you again: SHUT UP!

Who's "we"? I've been shouting "KEEP 'EM COMING" non-stop for the past eight years.

So, Peter,

KEEP 'EM COMING!

OT: Cool. I like Molyneux's projects.

So you LIKE half-assed, unfinished games with zero QA testing before release?

Da hell have YOU been playing?

All the games I get from him are half-assed unfinished games with LOADS of QA testing. And yes, they're fantastic.

 

[Bigsmith]

"I'll retire when I die," he said. "Or when people tell me to shut up, I guess."

We've been telling you to shut up ever since you released the beta version of Fable 2, but you've just had your fingers in your ears going "la-la-la I can't hear you!".

So we'll tell you again: SHUT UP!

Who's "we"? I've been shouting "KEEP 'EM COMING" non-stop for the past eight years.

So, Peter,

KEEP 'EM COMING!

OT: Cool. I like Molyneux's projects.

So you LIKE half-assed, unfinished games with zero QA testing before release?

Da hell have YOU been playing?

All the games I get from him are half-assed unfinished games with LOADS of QA testing. And yes, they're fantastic.

Regardless of how much QA testing the games get how can you say that a half-assed unfinished game is fantastic.

I mean we constantly dig at Zynga for exactly that.

Plus I didn't like what happened to the fable line, the first one was pretty good and then I feel that what happened to the leveling up system ruined it. Don't get me started on how spells work in Fable 3.

 

[lacktheknack]

"I'll retire when I die," he said. "Or when people tell me to shut up, I guess."

We've been telling you to shut up ever since you released the beta version of Fable 2, but you've just had your fingers in your ears going "la-la-la I can't hear you!".

So we'll tell you again: SHUT UP!

Who's "we"? I've been shouting "KEEP 'EM COMING" non-stop for the past eight years.

So, Peter,

KEEP 'EM COMING!

OT: Cool. I like Molyneux's projects.

So you LIKE half-assed, unfinished games with zero QA testing before release?

Da hell have YOU been playing?

All the games I get from him are half-assed unfinished games with LOADS of QA testing. And yes, they're fantastic.

Regardless of how much QA testing the games get how can you say that a half-assed unfinished game is fantastic.

I mean we constantly dig at Zynga for exactly that.

Plus I didn't like what happened to the fable line, the first one was pretty good and then I feel that what happened to the leveling up system ruined it. Don't get me started on how spells work in Fable 3.

Because Zynga are lazy, anti-creative and don't even try. At least Molyneux really tried to do six or seven innovative things at once and failed. I love games that fail to do something awesome versus games that succeed at being badly designed.

 

[crazyrabbits]

I'll give Molyneux credit - he would have had one hell of a career as an actor. The fact that he fooled RPS into believing he was on the verge of a mental breakdown (going so far as to cry in front of them) and got half of NeoGAF on his side says a lot about his mentality. He could probably fool you into believing your own mother died if it would help him sell another copy of his game.

I'd have a higher opinion of his games (several of which I enjoy) if he wasn't so prone to lying through his teeth all the time about his mental condition.