Fable Legends Cancelled, Lionhead Studios May Close

[Kchrpm]

http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/7/11172408/fable-legends-canceled-lionhead-studios-closing

Apparently dedicating a studio to making remakes and fad-chasing games instead of the big main titles that they are known for is a bad thing. Who knew? Other than, as Ross pointed out on Facebook, EA.

[21Kid]

:down::(

[Kchrpm]

If you want to dig in to it: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-05-12-lionhead-the-inside-story

The article which linked me to this suggests the short version is that Fable Legends was too expensive to make, and no one wanted to make it anyway.

Edit: I just learned that Fable wasn't Peter Molyneux's idea, and he didn't do the initial work on it . Lionhead set up something to help small devs, and was working on The Movies and Black & White 2 while the studio Big Blue Box was creating Fable, until financial considerations made them bring Big Blue Box in-house. Alrighty then.

[Kchrpm]

Ha, Microsoft wanted it Legends to simultaneously be a showcase of all the features they were introducing (graphics-wise and XBox Live/Windows 10-wise), yet also a free-to-play game. The point of free-to-play is to start small and add things as people keep pouring money in and providing feedback, trying to make it the most beautiful game ever just to give it away for free and then start working on more most beautiful content.

[thesameguy]

Sometimes I think Peter Molyneux's ideas are a little too big for the world.

[21Kid]

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Flaming Fowl Studios is a brand new indie games developer started by a number of long term ex-Lionhead developers. We have been working on Fable Fortune within Lionhead for the last 18 months. However, Microsoft have kindly allowed us to acquire the rights, and therefore we now need your help to finish development and bring some more great LH developers back into our team.

[Kchrpm]

Meh.

Wait, no. For people who enjoy card collection games, which must be a large group considering the amount of entries in the market, this could be excellent.

Perhaps it will also allow the further employment of people that Microsoft boned through mismanagement/misuse of the Fable brand.

[21Kid]

I'm in! :D

[Kchrpm]

http://www.polygon.com/2016/6/1/11820966/fable-crunch-microsoft

[21Kid]

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