Diamond Member Steam 0 Posted April 27 Diamond Member Share Posted April 27 This week, players are being asked to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , a This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up that legendary designer Peter Molyneux (Populous, Dungeon Keeper, ****** and White) This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . But the players who This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up into Molyneux’s previous game, Legacy, say they're still bitter about getting swept up in Molyneux’s broken promises of a best-in-class economic simulation and the opportunity for “play to earn” riches. Legacy players who spoke to Ars Technica described pre-purchasing thousands of dollars' worth of NFTs, in some cases, to buy into the crypto-fueled vision offered by Molyneux, his development studio 22cans, and publisher Gala Games. Those players said the Legacy they got was a pale shadow of what was promised, with a broken-by-design economic system that caused players to abandon the game en masse within a couple of weeks of its 2023 launch. Despite the game's almost total failure as a going concern, though, Legacy rode the crest of the crypto hype wave to pre-sold economic success that Molyneux said “[gave] us the money to fund Masters of Albion," This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . "That's what we used the majority of the money for…” This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/310747-steam-how-legacy-became-a-costly-crypto-bust-for-players-and-a-business-win-for-peter-molyneux/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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