Peter Molyneux interview: 'It's over, I will not speak to the press again'
“I think people are just sick of hearing from me,” he says in one disarmingly dark moment. “They’ve been sick of hearing from me for so many years now. You know, we’re done.” - Peter Molyneux
He sounds like a broken man. I'm one of his biggest critics, but I can't help but feel bad for him here.
Someone needed to ask these questions as unprofessional as the whole interview sounded. Peter was slaughtered but as another said, he kinda deserves it. Like one of the comments in the article says:
"Seems appropriate. This is not an out of the blue instance, everything Molyneux has done (or in many cases not) for years and years has been building to this moment. He has my pity like a pathetic Gollum-like creature, but we’re (finally) past forgiveness."
Given Molyneux's evasiveness for over three years, these aggressive direct questions were warranted. He brought this on himself. I have no sympathy for him. If anything, he got treated like a politician because he acts like one. That interview reminded me of the direct questions some journalists will throw at dodgy slimy politicians.
http://kotaku.com/pe...lems-1685009738
Despite Kotaku's other faults this is a pretty good assesment of the problems with the game and with Peter. They compare him to being a friendly Steve Jobs
Someone needed to ask these questions as unprofessional as the whole interview sounded. Peter was slaughtered but as another said, he kinda deserves it. Like one of the comments in the article says:
"Seems appropriate. This is not an out of the blue instance, everything Molyneux has done (or in many cases not) for years and years has been building to this moment. He has my pity like a pathetic Gollum-like creature, but we’re (finally) past forgiveness."
Given Molyneux's evasiveness for over three years, these aggressive direct questions were warranted. He brought this on himself. I have no sympathy for him. If anything, he got treated like a politician because he acts like one. That interview reminded me of the direct questions some journalists will throw at dodgy slimy politicians.
I'm aware that Peter has been evasive and slimy at times, but this isn't the first time RPS came off as crass.
Someone needed to ask these questions as unprofessional as the whole interview sounded. Peter was slaughtered but as another said, he kinda deserves it. Like one of the comments in the article says:
"Seems appropriate. This is not an out of the blue instance, everything Molyneux has done (or in many cases not) for years and years has been building to this moment. He has my pity like a pathetic Gollum-like creature, but we’re (finally) past forgiveness."
Given Molyneux's evasiveness for over three years, these aggressive direct questions were warranted. He brought this on himself. I have no sympathy for him. If anything, he got treated like a politician because he acts like one. That interview reminded me of the direct questions some journalists will throw at dodgy slimy politicians.
I disagree. The interviewer was being incredibly disrespectful. Holding Peter accountable to his own words is perfectly fine and something I want more of in journalism, but to personally attack the man in the first question and then become even more hostile as the interview goes on is really uncalled for. The whole interview reads like something I would find on TMZ.
Everyone should be held accountable, to a point, for their failures. To go at someone like that though... What's the interviewer trying to prove? What was their goal with that interview other than to break Molyneux? To get him to say " You're correct, i'm worthless. The craft i've devoted my life to would be better off without me"? It was brutal reading, and incredibly disrespectful. That's modern gaming media in a nutshell though.
Like i said RPS can barely do there job and as a result they came across as arseholes.
like i said BS needs to be called out but it needs to be done professionaly.
It would be better off if he kept to his promises or stopped over promising features that would never exist.
Did you read the escapist article about the God of Gods?
On the contrary guys, RPS did their job because the controversial interview has probably generated more revenue for that site than other articles have done for months. Also, it's getting actively discussed across the internet and that will generate more hits for them.
I've not seen what that writer has posted before on that site but from reading the comments, I understand that this is a first for him. He probably planned for the "interview" to go like that. In fact it was more an interrogation lol. 
Also I don't know why people expected "proper" journalism from RPS. It's a gaming blog not a game site like Eurogamer or Gamespot.
Well mission accomplished for them, though it does nothing for their credibility.
Fable 3 hella sucked
This was just shameful and cowardly, attack a man who's reputation has already been ground into dust, lets see them pull the same **** on Anita Sarkeesian and see where it gets them. I do believe that interviewers do need to be asking the hard questions but this is just a hit piece against an easy target.
It is a shame too because I don't believe Molyneux is deliberately being misleading, I honestly believe that it is his passion and big ideas are what cause him to overreach his boundaries and promise more than he can deliver.
This was just shameful and cowardly, attack a man who's reputation has already been ground into dust, lets see them pull the same **** on Anita Sarkeesian and see where it gets them. I do believe that interviewers do need to be asking the hard questions but this is just a hit piece against an easy target.
I would love them to tell that question to her. But we already know where that'll lead.
Guest_EntropicAngel_*
I stopped taking Molyneux and Lionhead Studios seriously long ago. I used to be a huge fan. The Movies, Black and White, Black and White 2, Fable 1. These great games all came out around the same time period, spread apart of course but these were games that made me proud to support Lionhead Studios.
Then Fable 2 came out, Peter Molyneux, who previously announced there would be five Black and White games said that Lionhead weren't making any after the second game (although he had no choice because Lionhead and the producer split apart and they both shared the license and neither can make the game without the other's consent,) the Movie's going belly up, a slew of broking promises regarding Fable 3, and Lionhead's absolute refusal to develop any other franchise. It's stuck in the Fable rut, and it's getting worse each game.
I stopped paying attention to him long ago. I'm not buying any more Fable games. I already know they're going to suck. And Lionhead has no desire to branch out of Fable.
Guest_EntropicAngel_*
I stopped taking Molyneux and Lionhead Studios seriously long ago. I used to be a huge fan. The Movies, Black and White, Black and White 2, Fable 1. These great games all came out around the same time period, spread apart of course but these were games that made me proud to support Lionhead Studios.
Then Fable 2 came out, Peter Molyneux, who previously announced there would be five Black and White games said that Lionhead weren't making any after the second game (although he had no choice because Lionhead and the producer split apart and they both shared the license and neither can make the game without the other's consent,) the Movie's going belly up, a slew of broking promises regarding Fable 3, and Lionhead's absolute refusal to develop any other franchise. It's stuck in the Fable rut, and it's getting worse each game.
I stopped paying attention to him long ago. I'm not buying any more Fable games. I already know they're going to suck. And Lionhead has no desire to branch out of Fable.
It's kind of weird how you're talking so much about Fable when this interview is about Godus. And they're working on a new title that's unrelated to either.
Guest_Catch This Fade_*
Fable 3 hella sucked
It could've been better. People call it one of the worst games ever sometimes and that kind of statement regarding its quality is foolish to me.
It's kind of weird how you're talking so much about Fable when this interview is about Godus. And they're working on a new title that's unrelated to either.
Like I said, I stopped paying attention all together. lol.
Sorry, I really don't know how to lie. I'm really honest.
Just read through a chunk of the interview, stopped after a bit.
That interviewer was being a huge jerk. I took a journalism class in college and helped edit the school paper, so I have a basic idea of what a journalist should do.
This guy fails miserably on all fronts.
It's one thing to call Peter out on his huge exaggerations in the past, it's quite another to, by the tone of the questioning, make him hate something he is passionate about. Calling him a liar, getting more aggressive. He wasn't asking hard questions, he was verbally harassing Molyneux and covering it up as an interview.
This interview should get hits and the headline should be "101 on how to not interview someone."
This was just shameful and cowardly, attack a man who's reputation has already been ground into dust, lets see them pull the same **** on Anita Sarkeesian and see where it gets them. I do believe that interviewers do need to be asking the hard questions but this is just a hit piece against an easy target.
It is a shame too because I don't believe Molyneux is deliberately being misleading, I honestly believe that it is his passion and big ideas are what cause him to overreach his boundaries and promise more than he can deliver.
I think John Walker fancied himself some cutting edge reporter interviewing the likes of Al Capone. When in reality he was venting like a little schoolyard bully. He can forget ever being taken seriously again, big man that he is, bullying Peter Molyneux.
That interview was so disgusting I had to stop reading it. It was completely unprofessional and it quickly devolved from an interview into some guy (the RPS author) trying to feed his his narcissistic needs. The idea of the interview is sound, trying to get to get some answers about why Peter Molyneux does what he does would be great, but the entire tone of the 'interview' was hostile from the start. It was obvious the RPS author didn't give two shits about the actual consumer, all he cared about was trying to be the guy who got Peter to admit that he's been blatantly lying to us all these years. I'll be honest, I don't read Rock, Paper, Shotgun, but I sure as heck plan on never visiting that website again if those are the kind of 'journalists' (Journalists meaning hack) they have writing their articles over there.
I'm by no means on Peter's side, I've honestly stopped caring about what he's had to say after the days of Fable 2, but my god does that interview go about things in all the wrong ways.
I think that is quite possibly the worst and most unprofessional interview I've ever read. The interviewer often came across more like an irate fan hammering away an angry rant on an internet forum than a journalist. You can ask tough questions without being a gigantic douche about it. He's no Tim Russert.
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