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No Online Co-op Shipping With Fable II

by Erin on September 28th, 2008

I love the offbeat, irreverent humour of Lion Head Studios’ Fable II. It’s a cheeky, somewhat abrasive look at a fantasy world that is right up my alley, so to speak. As you can then imagine, I was more than a little disappointed at the announcement that the game would not be shipping with the online co-op as originally promised. No, like every other game studio in existence when under extreme deadline pressures to shove out less-than-finished products, they’re going to release a patch with the co-op hopefully during launch week meaning that gamers really won’t have to wait all that long for the chance at some socializing fun.

It kind of begs the question then, if the co-op is that close to being ready, why they can’t just delay the game release for a single week and ship the entire thing in one nice, cohesive package. The ship’n'patch mentality that seems to exist in the industry these days probably does more damage to the reputations of the companies involved than just announcing a very short delay and doing everything thoroughly and properly the first time around.

This smacks more of Microsoft than Lion Head’s Peter Molyneux, whose candid nature about difficulties and flaws has landed him in hot water in the eyes of the Microsoft PR crew on more than one occasion. Frankly I’d rather be told honestly that things are going to be delayed because of issues than to be fed horse sh*t from Microsoft’s PR machine designed to make sure that the hype stays high.

Via | videogaming247

Image courtesy of Microsoft.

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