Peter Molyneux Calls Microsoft a "Creative Padded Cell"

[Craorach]

I completely agree with him, if my employer hired someone to do this crap I'd tell them where to shove it.

Yes, staff OHS is important, it should also be their own responsibility. You are provided with chairs, if you don't want to sit in them properly that's your own fault.

Offices all over the world seem to be filled with this garbage, when a better solution to any "sitting too long" related problem is to allow your staff to get up and walk around on a regular basis without harassing them, and to employ enough staff that nobody needs to work overtime or be overly stressed.

 

[Lancer873]

Microsoft chair adjustment personnel... Not sure if I should follow that up with "Is the name of my alt-pop-rock band" or "dot tumblr dot com"

 

[SPF18]

Honestly, it sort of seems like he's making an excuse to me - but I guess we'll see come his next game.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

Hahahaha. So Peter was in the midst of a Coleridgian burst of inspiration when a modern day person from Porlock came and blew his creative high. "Fuck this", said Pete, "these conditions are positively Orwellian."

Only Molyneux could find a way to spin a story about what are probably regulation OH&S practices in a way that sounds like he's being watched by the thought police. Ergonomics in the workplace are actually a pretty serious thing, everyone I know who has a desk job has at some point had someone come to check they're not sitting in a chair that doesn't support them properly: because in our litigative-driven culture if you develop a curved back from sitting in a crappy chair 8 hours a day you could probably sue. But hey, fuck possibly getting a more comfortable workspace if it means you can be interrupted dreaming about what extra bodily functions you can cram into your next game and call it 'social interaction'.

 

[SargentToughie]

Wow... gotta give ol' Peter credit where credit is due. He may be one or two steps away from a REAL padded cell of his own, but the guy absolutely loves what he does. Who else can genuinely say that they would leave a job where they HAD to be making more money then any of us could ever hope for, just to try and create a truly great game and take that chance.

More modern day game designers should have the balls that this guy's got. As an aspiring designer myself, I'm actually rather impressed.

PART 2: That, and yeah, he may fall on his face every now and again, but he still has the ambition to try new things and try to create something grand. I mean, I get the feeling that he genuinely does love each fable game that comes out, even though they're not really the greatest games ever.

It's ages better then what Activision has been doing ever since they hit the Modern Warfare goldmine.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Peter Molyneux Calls Microsoft a "Creative Padded Cell"

Yes, it is. And...?

I'm waiting for Molyneux to start a Kickstarter campaign. I just want to see what wildly implausible things he'll fail to deliver for the upper-echelon contribution amounts.

Given his history, I wouldn't fund it, because I wouldn't get it until the day after he dies.

 

[Archemetis]

You mean to tell me that I can't even find a job filling shelves but there are people at Microsoft who are legitimately being paid to screw around with chairs?

'Tis a dark, dark world we live in...

 

[vxicepickxv]

Microsoft chair adjustment personnel... Not sure if I should follow that up with "Is the name of my alt-pop-rock band" or "dot tumblr dot com"

What about Creative Padded Cell? I think I'll call that one for my indie-pop band.

 

[weirdee]

Thing is, Molyneux's old office actually WAS a padded cell, of which no such thing as a chair, or people, had ever actually entered the room in years.

 

[Sansha]

I still prefer to imagine Peter Molyneux as the magical, omnipresent, disembodied head Yahtzee portrays him as.

But, good on him for this decision.
I've always admired his ambition and constantly listening to player feedback. Every Fable game he makes is another attempt at getting everything right, adding and removing according to feedback.

 

[Monsterfurby]

Just for reference, this "Chair Adjustment Personnel" person has probably been canned due to getting Peter Molyneux to quit.

Indeed. Molyneux says: "I don't want to work for a corporate overlord, be they evil or begnign."

Microsoft hears: "The chair-adjustment-administrator clearly underperformed in her responsibilities as a performance optimising part of this company. The gallows will be her payment - or, if already illegal (we have to check back with legal on that), a pink slip will do."

 

[Darkcerb]

It'll be alot harder to remake fable another 6 times without Microsoft.

He might have to actually deliver on one of any of his promises too, tough times.

 

[Detective Prince]

People give Molyneaux a hard time, but he's one of the people who you know really gives a shit. He'll admit failures and always want to do better.

That being said this will either lead to brilliance or we'll see him on the news doing something like

I don't really have much else to say (I've made my chair adjustment statement clear. And I also loved Fable 1 but haven't actually gotten into the other two. Black & White on the other hand, I adore.)

Quoted this though just for the 30 Rock reference

Captcha: less is more

Lol.

 

[Hexenwolf]

My respect for Molyneux just jumped several levels.

P.s. Well, if we're going to have to have advertisement captchas, I'd much rather it be for the American Cancer Society than for Ford or some such. So... Good job I guess?

 

[Mr.Pandah]

I love Peter. His drive is stuff the industry needs. It really is. I love how he takes risks with his games. Sure he makes them sound grander and can't deliver on some of the promises but damn does he try. Black & White is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm sure he'll make another great game before his time is through.

 

[Ishigami]

So what he is saying is that in recent years he produced shallow mediocre entrainment stuff that did not in any way contribute to the advancement of video games as a medium because he was in a perfect environment to do the contrary?

That guy is lost to me since 1997...

 

[Quellist]

Personally i can see the guys point of view. It was the final thing to make him realise just how far things had gone wrong. I salute Peter and i really hope we see something of the old game developer returning in his next projects.