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Peter Molyneux, founder of Bullfrog and Lionhead Studios, is notorious for overhyping his games. Back in the day, when I was a lot younger than I am now, this was considered a kind of adorable foible\u2014the guy just got so excited about the stuff he was making he couldn’t help but make wild, unfulfillable promises about them.<\/p>\n

That perception dramatically changed, I reckon, around the time of massively multiplayer Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube<\/a>. It was a game in which, well, a lot of players all tapped on a cube, removing layer after layer until they eventually hit the centre. Molyneux promised the prize for the single player who reached that centre would be “life-changing”.<\/p>\n

It turned out to be the role of ‘God of gods’ in Molyneux’s then-upcoming game Godus, plus 1% of the game’s revenue. The winner\u2014an 18-year-old named Bryan Henderson\u2014never got any money, and told Eurogamer<\/a> that he was largely forgotten by Molyneux’s studio after a single visit to its office in 2015.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to today, and an interview with the most recent issue of Edge<\/a> magazine, and Molyneux seems contrite about the whole saga, but I don’t know that he’s learnt the right lessons. Molyneux frames the game as a social experiment more than a money-making exercise, and says that\u2014if he had his time again\u2014he would “love to go back and put inside the cube something graphical, nothing more than that.”<\/p>\n

And then, like a lemming who simply cannot resist an especially steep cliff, he muses that “In fact, if you were to go back, what you would give, now, would be a cryptocurrency thing. And if it was launched back then [2012], in the early days of cryptocurrency, it’d probably be worth a fortune now.”<\/p>\n

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Somehow, I doubt that jamming crypto into the Curiosity cube would have made the whole sorry saga any better, but Molyneux will Molyneux, and this is, after all, the man whose very next game after Godus was some benighted NFT thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Either way, Molyneux regrets his verbiage at the time. “I shouldn’t have said ‘life-changing’\u2014I should have said there’s something ‘amazing,’ and I think the experiment would have worked just as well.”<\/p>\n

Though, just speaking personally, I don’t think it would have been any more true. A grand total of no<\/em> money and a honcho role in an unsuccessful game you can no longer purchase<\/a> isn’t much to write home about.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the strangest part of Molyneux’s recollection of the Curiosity\/Godus debacle relates to its microtransactions, though. “The other thing I wanted to work out was monetisation. I made this horrendous mistake. I said, ‘We’ll have some addons you can buy to help with the tapping of the cube, but they’ll cost \u00a310,000,” said Molyneux, who said he was inspired by tales of people spending millions on World of Tanks. Curiosity promised ahead of its launch a mega-chisel DLC that would cost \u00a350,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Alas, “That broke [Apple] App Store guidelines, so we had to remove that monetisation. It was only later on that we monetised Curiosity at all.” True enough: it was only after launch that Molyneux and co added microtransactions to do things like remove 500,000 bits o’ cube without having to tap, or (admittedly, this is quite funny) pay the same amount to add<\/em> 500,000.<\/p>\n

But almost in the same breath, Molyneux defends his record by claiming “We never took a penny of money from people,” which is straightforwardly not true. I assume what Molyneux means is that Curiosity didn’t bring in a profit, but that’s simply not the same thing. In 2013, the man himself told Wired<\/a> it had generated “a few tens of thousands” in revenue.<\/p>\n

So I don’t really know that Molyneux has learnt the right lessons from his chequered past in game dev, and I can’t say I’ve got my hopes up for his next\u2014and supposedly final\u2014game, Masters of Albion<\/a>. Especially when I consider the poor fate of Bryan Henderson, Curiosity’s winner.<\/p>\n

“It was<\/em> life-changing for [Henderson],” declared Molyneux. “It came true. He was just a kid, and suddenly everyone wanted to talk to him. But it was a mistake, and I apologise for it. I should never have said ‘life-changing'”.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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