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Fable II Not Shipping With Online Co-op

Published By: Sam Collins On: 02/10/2008 11:36

According to a recent post from Microsoft’s Gamerscore blog Fable II will not have online co-op out of the box. Offline co-op, however, will work fine from day one and if you’re online and playing Fable II you’ll still be able to see your friend’s orbs and chat / trade but the drop-in drop-out play will need to be patched in after the release.

According to the post ”Lionhead and Microsoft Game Studios are looking to get the update out within the first week of launch in North America.” No word has been given yet as to a date for the patch or when it will see release in other regions.

I think this will be frustrating news for everyone that was looking towards Fable II as an online co-op RPG. However, as mentioned above, offline co-op will be working fine out of the box so you’ll still be able to adventure with your mates on day one, albeit locally.

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ReplyPosted by Ron on 2 October 2008, 12:04PM

Wow, this is bad news I feel... ;-(

ReplyPosted by Flea17 on 2 October 2008, 12:05PM

Is this 100% certain? Because I had a look at the Lionhead forums yesterday, and there were lots of people arguing either side, saying that it might've been a leaked rumour, etc. Doesn't really worry me anyhow, I was planning to go singleplayer for a couple run-throughs before letting my mates kill off my entire family...

ReplyPosted by Lifeforce on 2 October 2008, 12:18PM

Bad news indeed. Microsoft just changed the contents and price of the LCE of Fable II.

ReplyPosted by Ubercuber on 2 October 2008, 12:27PM

Offline is where its at. Could care less about online co-op.

ReplyPosted by Insanctity on 2 October 2008, 12:54PM

Yeah defintely gonna play offline for a while, it's just gonna be too temtping to kill other peoples families and ransack their houses, hehehe the joys of being evil!

ReplyPosted by tim705 on 2 October 2008, 01:16PM

Oh well... Guess I can't own you nubs until later on. ^_^

ReplyPosted by TheDark1 on 2 October 2008, 01:28PM

I hope NZ gets online co-op within a reasonable time frame. I don't mind waiting a few weeks though, give me to time to hone my skills.

ReplyPosted by Grunt of God on 2 October 2008, 02:14PM

Hmmm, sad. Oh well :p

ReplyPosted by Munkah on 2 October 2008, 02:48PM

Posted by Lifeforce on 2 October 2008, 12:18PM
Yeah. Pity they changed the contents but not the price for us! At least GPStore are still charging the full price.

ReplyPosted by tim705 on 2 October 2008, 04:21PM

Only $89 at Gamesman online now.

ReplyPosted by Daniel1987 on 2 October 2008, 05:06PM

^

Online co-op worth $10??

That would be a good argument.

ReplyPosted by Koopa18 on 2 October 2008, 05:19PM

Agree with Uber - online co-op is pretty lame.

Co-op is about sitting next to someone and sharing the same game - not someone you dont know being half a world away and killing things you dont want to be killed.

ReplyPosted by tim705 on 2 October 2008, 06:51PM

You know you can online co-op with people from your XBL friends list... They also have these things called headsets. Oh! Peter Molyneux also added an in-game feature called saftey so people can't stuff your game.

ReplyPosted by Koopa18 on 2 October 2008, 07:26PM

Well then why dont you marry Peter Whatshisface?

(Haha, well played Koopa, well played)

ReplyPosted by tim705 on 2 October 2008, 08:10PM

I would but we are both males. I can't marry him because there is no such thing as same sex 'marriage'. 'Gay marriage' is just a colliqual term for homosexual civil union. There is a big religeous controversy over this.

ReplyPosted by tim705 on 2 October 2008, 10:15PM

And yes I noticed the amount of typos.