Lionhead confirms Fable II DLC delay

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 December, 2008

Following Xbox.com report. Late Jan now.

Lionhead has confirmed to Eurogamer that the Fable II: Knothole Island downloadable expansion pack has been delayed until January 2009.

An announcement on Xbox.com yesterday said the pack had been pushed back from 22nd December until "late January", which the developer confirmed this morning.

Xbox.com cited "unexpected technical difficulties".

Knothole Island, which will cost 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60), introduces a new area full of quests and other bonuses off-shore.

Fable II, which came out in late October, is one of our favourite games of the year, as you probably established with our Fable II review.

Check out last week's post-mortem interview (on video, too) for more.

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Comments (33) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • systems #1 3 years ago

    Presumably that means the patch is delayed as well and they'll both be the same day?

  • Dizzy #2 3 years ago

    Pity.. wanted to play it over Xmas. Oh well.. more time to save for Castle Fairfax and play my evil, lesbian highway woman alt ;)
    Edited by 1 at 18/12/08 @ 10:52

  • menage #3 3 years ago

    Shame, was looking forward to it.

    Still better to delay and iron out the bugs than release something in a shoddy state. Should do that more often.

  • j1m.ch053n #4 3 years ago

    Shame, was looking forward to it.

    Still better to delay and iron out the bugs than release something in a shoddy state. Should do that more often.

    ....like with the retail copy of the game

  • kangarootoo #5 3 years ago

    Bit of a shame, but no biggy. I can wait till next year and I still have a few loose ends to tie up before I need DLC to add something more to the game.

    I have to say I have been surprised at how much I have enjoyed Fable 2. I expected it to be pretty good, but on relflection I think its great. A few rough edges in places, but hey what can you do.

  • kangarootoo #6 3 years ago

    I seem to have happily avoided pretty much every bug that other people are experiencing. Not one crash or freeze, and not one mission breaker. Touch wood and all that.

  • comedian #7 3 years ago

    Bugger, I was looking forward to investing some time in this over Christmas.

  • asphaltcowboy #8 3 years ago

    @beholdthelantern: nice spoilers ;)

  • menage #9 3 years ago

    @j1M

    Kinda what I meant, but whatever.

    Still, awesome game.

  • Roachdog #10 3 years ago

    Getting back into this - fantastic game

  • bushwod #11 3 years ago

    Hmmm, I might actually get round to playing this then.

    beholdthelantern, welcome to my ignore list you spoileriffic

  • Garulon #12 3 years ago

    DELAYStation3 LOL - oh wait hang on...

  • Lutz #13 3 years ago

    Well that answers one question over xmas.

    Fallout 3 it is.

  • Entity #14 3 years ago

    Wow... most posters so far only see it as a 'shame'.

    It's a bloody piss-take after the fiasco of the LE copy (OK, the white hobbe looked shit, but I still wanted it). Freakin' game has had more bad luck attached to it than even Jesus had!

  • sneetch #15 3 years ago

    The no-furniture furniture store is the only bug I've had so it's not so bad for me. This was just about the only DLC I was really looking forward to but I'm glad to see at least one software company deciding to push something out until next year, enjoy Christmas Lionhead: mine simply must meet that December deadline (we produce hardware design tools so it's not like there will be a whole lot of people eagerly awaiting them over the Christmas period). Christ, I'm sick of unnecessary December deadlines.

  • Mongoose #16 3 years ago

    Promises, promises...in fairness they should never have tried to release it so soon after the game came out. I wonder how much development time this has actually had.

  • kangarootoo #17 3 years ago

    "Wow... most posters so far only see it as a 'shame'"

    Well that is surely because its not actually that important.

  • spimmy #18 3 years ago

    the xbox live bug is really annoying

  • dryden555 #19 3 years ago

    very not shocked that its late

  • mazzl #20 3 years ago

    Damn! i wanted to play this.... still working on more cash for the first save game.
    i havan't had any bugs, and my launch xbox still works i must be the luckiest person alive!


    ;)

  • Dizzy #21 3 years ago

    "Damn! i wanted to play this.... still working on more cash for the first save game.
    i havan't had any bugs, and my launch xbox still works i must be the luckiest person alive! "

    Same here mate.

  • sneetch #22 3 years ago

    @kangarootoo
    "Well that is surely because its not actually that important."

    Indeed, the DLC will keep.

    The bugs, however, are an incredible annoyance for those suffering them (thinking about it a little more, I've had the furniture and unresponsive child bugs but as the child is obviously not mine I wasn't that pushed, I'm sure his real father will take care of him ;) ) and the delay in releasing that patch is undoubtedly costing them in terms of goodwill as a lot of people are pretty much still unable to play the game they bought two months ago. However, I don't believe they've specifically tied the release dates of the patch and the DLC together so it's entirely possible that we will still see the patch this month.

    That said, I wouldn't hold my breath for it. :)

  • CreepinJesus #23 3 years ago

    Reading the word 'Knothole' with poor vision is not a good idea.

  • ronuds #24 3 years ago

    Bastards! I was looking to forward to playing this over my Christmas vacation!!!

    Scuba Steve, damn yoouuuuuu!!!
    Edited by 1 at 18/12/08 @ 14:52

  • metalangel #25 3 years ago

    Molyneux in unable to meet deadline non-shocker. Honestly, how can anyone be surprised? I bet he was born late!

  • ronuds #26 3 years ago

    I don't think people would be "gagging" for DLC if it WASN'T a great RPG. Like, "oh yay, can't wait for DLC to that crappy game I just played."

    You lose! :p

  • metalangel #27 3 years ago

    I would say that DLCs should not be done for story based games.. Your first playthrough is always the most memorable (even if you replay as a different character type) so it is people who buy the game a bit after release who get the full experience of the main game plus all the addons.

  • JahB #28 3 years ago

    @metalangel

    that doesn't make any sense. you're basically saying that there should be no dlc for story-based games because if there is, the people that wait for it get a better first playthrough?

  • FortysixterUK #29 3 years ago

    MEH! I would have probably bought this if it had made the release date this week, but by the end of Jan I will be well into other games and Fable 2 will be a distant pleasant memory....probably won't bother with DLC for it now.

    Still, not to mind, lots of other games out there. Kind unfortunate for them though, ( Lionhead ) talk about missing the ideal spot for a release date.

    Next time I see Fable will likely be when Fable 3 gets released now.

  • CapnCloudchaser #30 3 years ago

    This is good, I have assignments I would rather get out of the way over Christmas!

  • LowEnergyCycle #31 3 years ago

    I only started Fable 2 last week. The belated DLC really isn't too important.

  • Entity #32 3 years ago

    @kangarootoo
    Fable 2 was supposed to be my answer to my otherwise boring real-life. Instead; compared to Fable 1, it felt as though a cack-handed moron created it. So... in response: It's bloody important to me! Although you've got a level-head about this situation, I haven't and now I'm annoyed with myself and Lionhead/Microsoft.

    N.B: I loved the other Lionhead games out there, but this was shoddy and should've been 'held-off' for another year imo. Now my memory of the Fable franchise is tainted :(

    Still looking forward to their secret game.

    and again: It's bloody important to me, I don't give two shits about others, it's all about me, me, me!

  • TexMurphy01 #33 3 years ago

    Hey beholdthelantern,

    You're a cock. That is all.