Fable 2 Collector's Edition shrinks News

Would apreciate to know when this shrinking starts... do you know EG?

As I placed my order on the 29 July, don't realy want money, I want the whole package.

haha... not only do lionhead constantly disappoint by dropping promised features.... now they're even cutting content from the packaging.

fable 3 will be a version of pong supplied on a beer mat.

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Pre-order cancelled.

Miiguel: It's the whole UK and US. No-one is getting them.

What an absolute joke. Figures I can understand; harder to manufacture etc.
But the fate cards can't be so damned hard surely?

PDF art work and downloadable MP3s? Do they not understand that collectors want decent tangile items?

/slow clap for Microsoft.

What a fucking disaster this is turning out to be, features culled again now they won't give you your wee toy.

They should've just delayed the release.

"Miiguel: It's the whole UK and US. No-one is getting them. "

What I asked was, will I be affected as I pre-ordered on the 29 of July at Amazon.uk (at the time everything was included - in the product description), or only the pre-orders starting now will be ?

TBH I ordered mine for the extra dungeon. Fuck material extras that end up in a corner of the room with the dog chewing on them.

What features have been culled? I'm not doubting you, just want to know...

miiiguel i think this affects all pre-orders

ok... sorry..., I think I understood now. No one is geting, no matter when the pre-order took place.
Shit.

edit: thanks all. My bad... I'm kinda annoying, I know. ;)

Miiguel - it doesnt matter when u preordered Fable 2 they are all receiving less goodies

Oh for fuck's sake. This would have been a great Collector's Edition.

>What features have been culled? I'm not doubting you, just want to know...

None.. I guess he is referring to the "no co-op in box but maybe at launch" PR mistake.

Fablol 2

I wasn't expecting Molyneuex to be able to deliver the goods in any way, shape or form.

Co-op not in from the start, despite a smug "its done" attitude ages ago. Now this? People will still continue to buy into his bullshit, which is the most tragic part.

As I said on the forums this is fucking bollocks.

What features have been culled? I'm not doubting you, just want to know...

just trolling really, but what fable (along with every other Lionhead game ever) was touted as right up until the end, and what it ended up as were two very different things.

This makes no sense to me. I couldn't care less about art cards or figurines or any of that crap, but the Collectors edition gets extra content?
I just don't get it. Why force people, if they want the full experience of the game to pay an extra tenner? I don't understand why they won't make the game as good as it can be right from the off. You just know this crap will be added as DLC for an extortionate amount of points.

Bit of a shame, but like Dizzy said, I only preordered really for the extra in game content, so if I save money on my pre order and don't get the Hobbe then thats fine by me

I only heard about Fable 2 the other day! Watched a gameplay of it on Youtube with Molyneux (filmed by someone inthe room). It looked really promising. What are the general thoughts on this game? As good as Oblivion?

Glad I never got round to preordering - may just rent it now

I cancelled my LE copy and reordered the normal edition at £35 from GAME today. I realised that I wasn't that bothered about the extras anyway and preferred the standard box artwork. I'm sure the ingame extras will appear as DLC eventually too and even if they don't I'm sure the game has more than enough content for me.

"I only heard about Fable 2 the other day! Watched a gameplay of it on Youtube with Molyneux (filmed by someone inthe room). It looked really promising. What are the general thoughts on this game? As good as Oblivion?"

It seems you aren't too aware of the first Fable. A lot of us find that a huge disappointment compared to the hype. Too short, and other general suckiness. It was hyped to have been better than TES III which turned out to be a huge joke.

In this case, again, there is not a chance that it will be better than Oblivion.

"Supply problems mean no goodies."
There, fixed that for you :)

Pre-order cancellations ahoy!!!

The fun starts here.

Oblivion and Fable aren't quite the same you know...

I'm happy actually, a free music download is better for me than a little figurine that's going to have to go straight into my drawer of "crap and other assorted items" anyway. The game being cheaper is also a nice bonus.

Got an email from GAME today saying they reduced the price to 39.99. So, not too bad at all!

I wasn't expecting Molyneuex to be able to deliver the goods in any way, shape or form.

Co-op not in from the start, despite a smug "its done" attitude ages ago. Now this? People will still continue to buy into his bullshit, which is the most tragic part.

It doesn't sound as if you are in the least bit interested in this game - which is fine - but why feel the need to put multiple posts on here slagging a game that isn't even out yet?

Yes, co-op is not in from the start, but who actually gives a damn? The fact is that a few days after release, they'll release a FREE patch to fix it, so you're not actually losing anything. Wouldn't you rather have working co-op, as opposed to something that was tacked on at the end to keep idiots like you happy? And as you're obviously not interested in and hence not going to buy the game in the first place, it doesn't really matter to you does it?

But back to stuff being left out of the Limited Edition version - yes its not great news, but is it really life-threatening? Will it spoil the actual game? No. If the games shit, it'll be shit on its own merit, not because some junk was left out of the gamebox. The stuff in the box is merely a distraction. And if they're going to drop the price as well, its not like you're being asked to pay more for less.

Amazon didn't send me any email...

I don't understand why people are riled by the co-op being delayed. It will be a free patch and surely you can wait. It's not as if crucial elements are missing such as characters or locations!

As I've only just discovered this game I am keen to read a review to know whether to add it to my worryingly growing wish-list

@Donnelly

Exactly, and with the 10 USD or 5 Quid they save, they can buy any type of little doll/figure they want! They are being given the freedom of CHOICE! :)

Glad I just pre-ordered the normal edition. Surely they could of had everything sorted out ages ago when it comes to supply chains? Oh well, bye bye fancy box, cards and Hobbe figurine. Let's hope the update to sort out the online co-op isn't messed up due to "supply chains".

All complaining because your not getting some little crappy toy.... I just want in game content with my limited edition anyways :)

Seriously Moleneaux should be taken aside and left in a dark room or something. First we find out that the multiplayer stuff that they have been shouting about and demoing to us isn't in the intial release (so what the frak where they showing us then?), Their live pub games were so bug ridden that it allowed players to get super rich before ever stepping one foot into the game world and now the special edition isn't special anymore.

Some comapnies promise the world and deliver a continent. Lionhead constantly promise the impossible and then get caught out every fraking time!

Cancelled...

this is great news for me - wanted the extra content but didn't want a huge box/toy/cards/assorted shit cluttering up my house. now i can just get the extra-content edition - sweet!

and all those blaming lionhead for 'cutting content' from the box - you do realise that they don't actually make these toys + boxes + stuff in-house right? it's not their fault if microsoft can't organise a competent supplier...

Hmm. Some people here seem to be intent on making mountains out of molehills...

I mean, removing some items from the LE game and making us wait a few days (!) for co-op is hardly enough reason to start calling for Moleneux's head. That is, unless you already have a pre-existing agenda, of course! ;)

@penhalion: the multiplayer stuff that they have been shouting about and demoing to us isn't in the intial release (so what the frak where they showing us then?)

it's just the online co-op that's gonna be patched in surely? local co-op is definitely included out of the box - which is what they were showing, obviously...

I was mainly after the ingame items/ bonus dungeon anyway, but it is slightly disappointing. At least Game reacted quickly and discounted my pre-order...

Well, repeating what I said on the forum;

"If the Fate cards and the figurine are no longer to be included, does this mean the Special Edition will now come in a normal box? If so, then I'm quite pleased. I quite enjoy watching the 'making-of' stuff and the extra game content sounds good.

In fact, I just tried to pre-order from GAME, but it seems to be temporarily out of stock. I hope they get it back in again. :-("

With all these people supposedly cancelling their Special Editions, I was hoping that GAME would have some to sell again, but it still seems to be Temporarily Unavailable. Are these people really cancelling their Special Editions, or just claiming it to try and make a point? :-)

The promotional stuff on the album sounds good, and I'm not really interested in the figurine. My Big Daddy figuring is still in his mighty BioShock box.

Grr, but why can't I get the Special Edition from GAME? What the hell is going on!?

I think collectors edition stuff is bollocks really. In the past, standard editions may have got a free making of DVD thrown in, but this market for trinket edition stuff is a bit crap.

Funnily enough, if they do actually cut the price in line with the content, I would consider buying the CE now when I wasn't before.

I have no interest in figurines, cards and boxes. They just take up space, never get used and waste my money. I'd happily watch the making-of DVD and take the extra game content though. That stuff I like.

Thalanos, that's pretty much my thinking as well. I'd rather have in-game content and a cheaper price, than all the extra gumph.

Also cancelled.
I don't think that many people are saying "i won't be buying this game then" purely because of a plastic toy. The game will most likely be another top quality title even if it doesn't quite live up to the hype.
I think it's more the feeling that you've been misled. Saying "go on, put your name down for a copy early and you'll get all this" and then changing that a few weeks before launch to "actually we're not really going to give you half that stuff" does feel a little bit of a con (especially if you consider that the supposed extras left in the package would have come as standard with the normal edition of the game a couple of years ago).
I shall buy the game at launch provided it gets good reviews now and save a few quid. I don't suppose cancelled pre-orders will damage the company that much anyway. It's still a hugely anticipated game and it's only nerds like myself and the rest of us posting on here who give a crap about special editions anyway.

"It seems you aren't too aware of the first Fable. A lot of us find that a huge disappointment compared to the hype. Too short, and other general suckiness. It was hyped to have been better than TES III which turned out to be a huge joke.

In this case, again, there is not a chance that it will be better than Oblivion. "

What a load of crap. Fable one was all kinds of awesome and the people who actually played it say that it most likely will be this years goty.

The only feature that's been cut is online co-op, which was only announced at e3, and may be patched in before the game is even released anyway, but will certainly make it within the first week. The lack of goodies here is kind of disappointing, but it's not Lionheads fault, and they have lowered the price to make it the same as the regular version, just with some bonus content.

One side of me is feeling this is a disappointment, the other is feeling relief that I won't have to explain away buying two full price games with little plastic figurines during a market recession when I should be saving that money for less awesome things like food and clothing.

/ cancels pre-order. Is grateful because now can afford Far Cry 2

Food and clothing are overrated...

You're cancelling your pre-order because you don't get a stupid toy and cards?

*sigh*