"It was tempting to retire…"

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Peter Molyneux has changed. He's a new man with a new plan, after what he tells me was the most difficult year of his career.
Almost one year ago, things changed forever for Peter Molyneux, his studio 22cans and his controversial game Godus. In a week he'll never forget, Eurogamer revealed the plight of Bryan Henderson, the Scot who won mobile game Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube? but never received his prize. Then, a couple of days later, PC game website Rock, Paper Shotgun published an interview with Molyneux that sent shockwaves throughout the industry. It began with a question: "Do you think that you're a pathological liar?"
Molyneux had, for years really, come under fire for overpromising and under delivering, but Godus was the straw that broke the camel's back. Godus, a crowdfunded game billed as Populous for the next generation, had in many players' eyes turned out to be the opposite. At best it was a mildly interesting god game that involved way too much clicking. At worst it was a cynical cash grab designed first for the free-to-play, microtransaction fuelled mobile market, with PC consigned to an afterthought.
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