Though the game has already gone gold, the development team for the action RPG, Fable II hasn’t quite finished their task. Microsoft community manager Sara Nicholson has state that the game’s online co-op aspect will not be available from day one, as Molyneux and the rest of the team are still busy polishing it up to make certain everything is completely functional and bug-free.

The developer, Lionhead Studios, plans to make the online co-op mode available within a week after launch in the form of a title update. However, even without the co-op patch, you’ll still be able to see the people on your Xbox LIVE friends list as glowing orbs in the single player mode. You’ll also be able to chat and trade items with your friends when you’re connected to the internet.

From my experience with Molyneux and Lionhead Studios, it sound as if they found some serious issues with the co-op mode and decided to play it safe rather than sorry. EA has come under lots of fire for releasing games which they knew had major bugs in it, and it looks like Lionhead Studios is doing the right thing by holding off on releasing co-op. On the other hand, I know how Peter Molyneux likes to promise grand ideas, such as in the case of Black & White 2. Some of the things he promised simply did not make it into the game. We’ll see if we get co-op mode within a week, or if Molyneux was blowing steam again. Fable II is set to be released on October 21st.

XBOX Rumors.net

Close Bookmark and Share This Page

Save to Browser Favorites / Bookmarks

Ask backflip blinklist BlogBookmark Bloglines BlogMarks Blogsvine BuddyMarks BUMPzee! CiteULike co.mments Connotea del.icio.us

Digg diigo DotNetKicks DropJack dzone Facebook Fark Faves Feed Me Links Friendsite folkd.com Furl Google

Hugg Jamespot Jeqq Kaboodle kirtsy linkaGoGo LinksMarker Ma.gnolia Mister Wong Mixx MySpace MyWeb Netvouz

Newsvine oneview OnlyWire PlugIM Propeller Reddit Rojo Segnalo Shoutwire Simpy Slashdot Sphere Sphinn

Spurl Squidoo StumbleUpon Technorati ThisNext Twitter Webride Windows Live Worlds Movies Yahoo!

Email This to a Friend

Copy HTML: 

 If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed.

Powered by Bookmarkify™

More »