A developer patching a broken game is not exactly a new concept. Fixing a broken game that is designed to give players access to more materials in another game is a totally different scenario. If you didn’t know, there is a pretty nasty exploit in the Fortune’s Tower Pub Game that lets players make an infinite amount of money. This money can then translate to Fable 2 and therefore get you the snazziest outfits, booze, hookers, and houses in the game. Recently CVG was perusing the Lionhead development blog and found that there is a patch coming to fix the issue.
I’m a bit disappointed, but I suppose I have a few more days to amass my fortune in Fable 2. I’ve been too busy with a few other games to even download these things, but I’m excited at the prospect of not having to kill countless Hobbes and sell meat to buy a house. You have a few more days to cheat your eyes out, so make sure you do it in the near future if you want to make it big in Fable 2.
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10:39 AM on 08.21.2008
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Then I played Fortunes Tower and Spinner box. F those games. F'em right in ol' Peteys bum-hole. I've used the cheat, and I'm not ashamed- but I've not gone anywhere near the amount most people have (40k in contrast to leader boards 1m+). Hipocritical? Yes. But I don't consider it so bad when compared to the alternative, in retrospect; which, by the way, was competely broke due to a broken game.
What would have been smart of Lionhead is- if youve amassed a certain amount of gold then you're waylaid more often by penniless, itemless thieves and hobbes. You may have your money- but now you have more to contend with, it might be fun.
I can't decide if I'll invest all of my money in real estate so if I really need gold later on in the game I can get it, or if I should just throw it all away at the start of the game.
And even with the patch, people can just delete the patch from their harddrive and play offline and use the glitch, as covah just stated.
And hell...if I have to play Spinnerbox tournaments where I have no control at all over what I may win (at least in the other two, you have to use the ol' noggin a bit), I'm going to use the glitch to win back my entry fee. I mean, c'mon...I'm in the top 5, and then suddenly, some CPU player comes from behind and bumps be out on my last spin.
Sure, the entry fee is a fraction of what you can potentially earn, but it's still a rip-off and I want it back, should I lose.
I think you might be missing the point. Yeah, you might be playing the game with money you won by cheating, and yeah, you might be ok with that. But you wont be playing that game for long- because theres no challenge.
And from a buisness standpoint, you not playing a game for more than a month that took them well over 5 years to make, is a slap in the face. And all because of a glitch.
The only reason they'd want customers to continue playing is for them to retain the prospect of selling them DLC, or perhaps pointing at XBL figures as a boasting point to share holders.
Buisness-wise the game may not be as appealing to many. I'm sure people will still buy it. I'm sure people will go along buying everything in site, but im sure it wont rate (either on peoples minds, or possibly on reveiw sites), as high as it could have. Much like a game thats too short- you kind of feel robbed.
Buisness-wise the game may not be as appealing to many. I'm sure people will still buy it. I'm sure people will go along buying it sight unseen, but im sure it generally wont rate (either on peoples minds, or possibly on reveiw sites), as high as it could have. Theres less of a challenge- its possible it wont last as long. Much like a game thats too short- you kind of feel robbed.