Fable Legends Officially Shuts Down, Refunds Available

Stupid concept anyway. Should of went with Fable 4. Sad to see Lionhead go though. I really enjoyed the Fable series.

Well, there is no reason for me to wait Black and White 3 right?

At least fable 2 now runs well on BC, too bad EA can't be bothered with ME.

This made me dislike Microsoft, liked the game a lot. Next gen no Xbox for me, just full of disappointments.

With the onset of Fable 2, Lionhead went downhill with this franchise.
It took most of the charm of Fable 1 and changed it. (You always ended up as a lard ass... Unless you spent most of the game snacking on celery)
With Fable 3, they tore the rest of it out and gave us a steaming pile.
Then they gave us Fable Heroes... Followed by Fable: The Journey (Peter Molyneux is the father of lies in the gaming industry. "Not an on rails shooter" my hairy aunt)
Thereby telling us all what they thought of the Fable universe. They didn't care.
Then they tried to give us all what we wanted. A step back into the wonderful world I loved and still hold dear... Then proceeded to rip out all of the charm, again, and give us a steaming pile of crap.
Am I surprised to see Fable Legends gone? A little.
Am I happy that Legends is now dead? Oh, God, yes.

Rest in pieces.

This story ended before anyone even read it.

Only reason i was going to get the xbone one, well this and phatom dust

I'll admit, I didn't even know this was a thing. Either I need to pay more attention to gaming sites (not likely to happen, admittedly,) or things need to be advertised better.

It wasn't a good game as it was. They should have kept the single player adventure and made it still look as good as this game did look and it would have been a seller.

I guess all of that "Microsoft are going to work with them" was bullshit. Well...at least Sony wants ya lol

It says a lot if it only lasted a little over a couple of years.

Such a shame, Fable had a couple of games that changed the way other games were made and this could have been the one to bring greatness back to the franchise.

RIP Fable.

Its too bad. Sony doesn't have anything that looks that good.

Does this mean that players will be able to post vids from it if they were ever recording while playing? I'd like to see what could have been.

After playing Fable 3 I honestly cannot say that this is a surprise!

They made people pay to play during the beta? They're beta testing your game for you and you force them to pay still? Wow.

Phill Schiller making the right moves

It's disappointing to read the comments on this game. Most have never played it and yet they pass judgement about it. It was not Fable IV and for those that loved the Fable I,II,II I can understand why you are so bitter. However you missed out on a fantastic time. It was a lot of fun. @kloffolk, you're right the 4 v 1 is a challenge and no one had got it right, but Fable Legends was very close. It just needed a few tweaks here and there and the balance and matchmaking would have been just right. I played so many games both as the hero and villain and I loved it. I feel privileged that I got to play. I feel sad that so few got to experience the game. While Fable Legends may be gone the friendships formed will continue for years to come.

Good. That game would suck anyway.

A failure of epic proportion. Microsoft seems to be specializing in failures of this type lately.

Such a shame. Should have stuck with making Fable IV. Making a new IP is one thing, completely reinventing an established IP is quite another and doesn't always work out so well. I'd be willing to bet this game would have suffered from a serious lack of community within a few weeks of launch anyway.

Visually, it looked great. I wasn't so sure about the gameplay. They should take these assets and at least use them somewhere else.

RIP

Personally, I think that after Evolve's disappointing post-launch sales and rapid player drop-off, the industry realized that these asymmetrical 4-v-1/team-centric type games don't work on a broad scale. Conceptually, they sound awesome. In practice, not so much. Refer to Rainbow Six Siege as another similar example.

Why? Because these games have a fundamental design problem; teamwork and communication are integral parts of the experience. Therefore, it is best played with a group of your friends. However, it's not always easy to get a bunch of your friends together to play at the same time. So what happens? You end up playing with random people instead, which diminishes the overall quality of the experience.

Basically, this genre was a fad that died out faster than the Guitar Hero/Rock Band music genre.

Should just have made fable 4

And nothing of value was lost :P