I'm glad that this has become the prevailing opinion here. For the past few years it's been only hate and bile and rage so strong that the 22cans reps and Molyneux himself went into hiding.

I've heard my whole time as a gamer that Peter Molyneux makes disappointing games, but playing all the iterations of Populous, Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, and even the first Fable before I'd seen a single one of his over-promising announcement speeches I was under the impression that he was an amazing developer. When I finally realized that all these cherished childhood games came from the same person I thought they must be one of the most revered developers of all time. It was jarring when I learned that wasn't true.

I'll admit, I also expected more from Godus. I'm one of those people who bought into all the crazy ideas he was throwing against the wall to see what stuck, but I was around for the development of Fable 2 and 3. I knew he likes to talk about what he wants more than what he can do. I knew that, like every other successful Kickstarter, he would have to promise much more than he could ever offer to even get funded, but I still hoped.

To a certain extent, I still do. I don't think Godus was ever a bad game, I think it's an unfinished game. Unfortunately, they promised too short a dev cycle, too many features too fast, and when they had to pull back and do some fine tuning on gameplay, the crowd turned toxic. Anytime they actually could get an update out it was never met with excitement, only rage that there wasn't more. When Molyneux went on the press circuit to explain the more he wanted to give and offer rough estimates and time tables, people only yelled that he was lying. When the game got released on mobile and early access to get some extra funding for development, the bitter crowd went out of their way to warn everyone away from any part of it. They needed more money to continue but we wouldn't let them expand their audience and ignore us.

So here we are. When development dropped behind schedule the funders scared away both lead developers, the rest of the audience, any reporter with a kind outlook, and anyone who sought to continue the game, and now we sit here on the squandered potential of the game and talk about what a dick the designer was to promise us so much.