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Fortune's Tower glitch fixed ... why the repercussion? photo

Awhile back we reported on a Lionhead blog update that directly stated a fix was coming to the Fable 2 pub game Fortune’s Tower. A week ago, Peter Molyneux seemingly knicked a fix when he stated that the glitch in Fortune’s Tower was on purpose and players would be “in for a surprise” for their nefarious money grabbing. Apparently the developers at Lionhead didn’t get Molyneux’s memo. As of yesterday, the glitch has been patched.

1UP (via X3F) is reporting that the patch also wiped the leaderboards for Fortune’s Tower to eliminate those who cheated to gather gold in the game from the listings. Of course, this turn of events raises the question, “Why the ‘surprise,’ Mr. Molyneux?”  

Thankfully, I’ve already put in enough time with the glitch to buy a small city. Yet, I’m left to wonder what my repercussion is, and furthermore, why the game was fixed to begin with. Is this some great Lionhead conspiracy to separate the good and the bad seeds? It’s obvious that Molyneux is a brilliant guy who really gets into what he creates, but this sort of maneuvering just doesn’t make sense to me. Why do you think Lionhead went ahead and fixed this supposedly intended glitch?

[Thanks, Brian!!]








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Aertyr's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 09:02
Aertyr
I could see this being a whole set up and certain people being very unfriendly against you for tricking the system. Good old Las Vegas.
Phantom Spaceman's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 09:05
Phantom Spaceman
Caption is lacking.
masterledz's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 09:36
masterledz
It's simple; Molyneux's QA testing missed the glitch and he had to play damage control to justify why the patch was late.

My question is, 'why did he create all this false hype over something so trivial'?
Cyberxion's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:09
Cyberxion
@ masterledz

What this guy said.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:15
GuitarAtomik
I heard that IGN actually misquoted him (they never actually directly quoted him) and they have since changed that line to not include the "intentional" part. There are still going to repercussions though (probably in the actual game).
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 10:28
TrailerParkJesus
It makes it look like they're doing stuff. Aww, devs that care.
Lolthien's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 13:51
Lolthien
Probably because as Molyneux is wont to do, he freaking lies and makes shit up during interviews and his team has to scramble and keep up. God knows I'll never forget "Real Time Raytracing" that was supposed to be in the first Black and White
kce05d's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/22/2008 22:19
kce05d
or maybe the "repercussions" are in the patch.
Crackpot360's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/23/2008 01:53
Crackpot360
Im not patching anything till the game comes out.
Sneaky Mr. Molyneux.
Bogard's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/23/2008 10:43
Bogard
My friend's profile got jacked by Xbox Live and his pub games progress all erased and switched with a random broke character, so there's Molyneux's "surprise".
Bogard's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/23/2008 10:49
Bogard
PS: He was able to recover his profile, that's how he found his switcheroo'd pub games progress.
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