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Fable Legends will be free to play

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Fable Legends

When I told people that I was actually keen to play Fable Legends, they laughed at me. Then they made fun of my gigantic money-hat, occasionally stealing a loose R20 note when my back was turned the other way to avoid their scorn. Well who’s laughing now, huh? Because Fable Legends is going to be a completely free to play game! HA HA!

Lionhead will be dipping their feet into the free to play waters later this year with Fable Legends, which will adopt a style similar to other F2P games on the market, such as Dota 2 and League Of Legends. Previously, the game had already established a quartet of heroes who would take on a fifth player, a dungeon master who would lay traps for would-be adventurers.

Now, the game will instead rotate through heroes every two weeks. Once the free hero is off the roster, the character will take all of the experience points saved and the items earned with him, until he reappears. Of course, to avoid waiting for said hero to return to active duty, you can always purchase him for keeps.

As for the players with a bastard streak who want to be the villain (such as myself), they’ll be able to obtain a free creature that is a native of the particular storyline that they’re taking part in. Creatures who aren’t inhabitants of those storylines, will need to purchased with either actual cash or the in-game currency. Additional creatures, heroes, creatures, quests and villains will be added to Fable Legends in various seasons, with every player having access to season one.

Chests will also be available, containing the usual armour, weapons and various items. They can either be found or, yes you guessed it, bought with real money. “There are free-to-play games like World of Tanks out there that are very much a pay-to-win kind of experience,” Fable Legends director David Eckelberry told Eurogamer, explaining how there would be no pay walls or time limits in the game.

For me the better ones for the customers are the ones where you get to enjoy all of the content without paying money. And then you pay if you want to. I want them to have such a fun experience that some percentage of them go, okay I’m going to buy a hero that just came out, or I’ll get a new hairstyle and a cool-looking hood.

That’s the kind of feeling we want to generate in our players where, we’ve offered them such a good time that they’re spending time in it that they feel valuable.

Eckelberry explained that players could indeed earn their way to glory, citing an example where it would take around 14 days to earn enough silver to buy a hero with in-game currency. “Microsoft isn’t about extracting the last nickel of players, or something silly like that,” Eckelberry said.

We want to create a great community of players that is playing for a long period of time. That doesn’t work if you buy something and regret it a day later. That just doesn’t make any sense. Even though most of our players will never pay anything, that’s still immensely valuable to us to have players playing on Windows 10 and Xbox One.

It’s a risky move, but it makes sense for a game such as Fable Legends, which is primarily a 4v1 title. I always see F2P games as glorified demos, and after the tepid release of the last two Fable games, I’m willing to try something new.  And as a game that will be available on PC as well as Xbox One, there might be a market for the game that could keep it alive beyond launch week. Now pass me my money-hat, and stop picking at my R100 embellishments on it.

Last Updated: February 27, 2015

37 Comments

  1. Free to play*

    *Requires xbox live gold/Pint of virgin’s blood

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    • Ranting Raptor

      February 27, 2015 at 11:14

      Xbox Live Gold or Xbox Live Black?

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      • Martin du preez (D4RKL1NGza)

        February 27, 2015 at 11:15

        Nee man fok. The last time a dress got so much attention it was covered in Bill Clinton’s semen

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        • Ranting Raptor

          February 27, 2015 at 11:18

          hehehehehehehehe

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        • Blood Emperor Trevor

          February 27, 2015 at 11:35

          Exactly, so it’s not gold, more of a cream. *cough*

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        • RinceThis

          February 27, 2015 at 11:47

          Agreed. I haven’t been feeding that nonsense. Just shows how many bored people are out there. Also, work productivity on a Friday must be at an all time low!

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      • Pariah

        February 27, 2015 at 11:32

        I still can’t believe you’re buying into that stupid fucking trend. Seriously, there’s dumb. There’s dumber. There’s retarded. There’s Zuma. THEN there’s this dress debate.

        GAH.

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        • Admiral Chief

          February 27, 2015 at 11:34

          There is 7 main arguments about that dress, that is why he is so interested

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          • Pariah

            February 27, 2015 at 11:39

            Or maybe he’s just deciding on whether or not it’ll go with his shoes?

        • Ranting Raptor

          February 27, 2015 at 15:08

          Dude, did you honestly just call me worse than Zuma? And what do you mean buying in to? Seriously dude. If you don’t like it great. You can even voice it. But don’t insult me for it.

          Don’t be that guy

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          • Pariah

            February 27, 2015 at 15:22

            I’m insulting the trend, not you. I believe you’re well above it, which is why I can’t believe that you’ve jumped on the bandwagon. YOU are not anywhere near as bad as Zuma, but the TREND certainly is worse.

    • Jaded_Reprobate

      February 27, 2015 at 11:16

      refresh

      edit: we may be out of luck on the pint of virgin’s blood

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      • Martin du preez (D4RKL1NGza)

        February 27, 2015 at 11:17

        LOL!

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      • ReaperOfSquirrels

        February 27, 2015 at 11:19

        hahahaha!

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      • Admiral Chief

        February 27, 2015 at 11:30

        Bwahahaha

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    • Pieter Kruger

      February 27, 2015 at 11:41

      Can a borrow a pint of blood please?(I have Xbox Live Gold already)…????

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      • RinceThis

        February 27, 2015 at 11:46

        Can a borrow? Eh? 0_O

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        • Pieter Kruger

          February 27, 2015 at 11:51

          Betterer now?

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          • Blood Emperor Trevor

            February 27, 2015 at 11:52

            Just tell him you’re Scottish & he’s being racist.

  2. Travis

    February 27, 2015 at 11:22

    Im actually excited for this now.

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  3. Pieter Kruger

    February 27, 2015 at 11:22

    Great!!!!! ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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    • Hammersteyn

      February 27, 2015 at 11:35

      Enjoy!

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  4. Hammersteyn

    February 27, 2015 at 11:23

    A 4v1 title that’s F2P just like Evolve should have been.

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    • Jaded_Reprobate

      February 27, 2015 at 11:24

      according to the dev it is fun to pay?

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      • Jaded_Reprobate

        February 27, 2015 at 11:27

        I should’ve added “trolololol” but i can’t even type that without thinking of Baymax

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        • Hammersteyn

          February 27, 2015 at 11:28

          XD

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  5. FoxOneZA

    February 27, 2015 at 11:24

    FREEEEEEEE!

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  6. Travis

    February 27, 2015 at 11:32

    Also the graphics look stunning.

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  7. RinceThis

    February 27, 2015 at 11:38

    Really not interested in this for some reason.

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    • Pariah

      February 27, 2015 at 11:40

      #ForeverSP maybe?

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  8. Viking Of Science

    February 27, 2015 at 11:42

    Just Remember, It’ll only be available for Windows 10…. And I’m not upgrading to 10 for Fable…. F that noise!

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    • Admiral Chief

      February 27, 2015 at 11:48

      YOU MUST, DX12!!!

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    • Travis

      February 27, 2015 at 11:49

      Serious, that will block a lot of people.

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    • Pieter Kruger

      February 27, 2015 at 11:50

      Yeah, DX12, AND that’s ALSO FREE! ????

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      • FoxOneZA

        February 27, 2015 at 12:16

        And that Spartan Browser to stream

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  9. Rock789

    February 27, 2015 at 12:18

    Hmmm… May give this a go, seeing as it’s F2P… But it really isn’t interesting me. It seems to be on the pile with Evolve for me – sounds interesting, but not enough that I will fork over money to get it.

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  10. Victor "Vicky" Moolman

    February 27, 2015 at 13:31

    I just came…….

    into the kitchen to get some coffee. Anyone want some?

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