10 Lies Video Games Could Never Recover From

Peter Molyneux was the master of over-promising and under-performing. He helped to make some of the best-selling games of all time: Populous and Fable. Quite a step up from his self-funded first game, The Entrepreneur, which sold only two copies.

After The Entrepreneur’s failure, Molyneux got a lucrative contract with the Commodore computer company. The representative had mistaken Molyneux's baked beans company for a networking software company of a similar name and offered him a contract that included free computers. Molyneux, perhaps foreshadowing his eventual reputation as one of the biggest liars in the industry - strategically leaned into the falsehood.

Molyneux founded his own development company, 22cans, to return to the ‘indie’ space after the successes of the Fable series and they produced the strange multi-user game, ‘Curiosity: What’s In The Cube?’

Molyneux stated that whoever solved the final puzzle of the game first would receive a 'life-changing reward'. That reward was a cut of the profits from his next game: Godus. Unfortunately for the winner, Godus has never made a profit.

Despite a successful crowdfunding campaign, 22cans admitted after an early-access release they couldn’t deliver on the promise and would just stop and make something different. Molyneux promised updates by Christmas 2021 - which, you might guess, never came.

Between backers demanding refunds and continually begrudging Molyneux and his company as blatantly disgraceful liars, the company’s latest game to replace Godus’ development was announced as a remake of The Entrepreneur... with blockchain software!

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