Earlier this year, Microsoft announced the closing of Lionhead Studios and the ending of development for its free-to-play fantasy RPG Fable Legends. Today, as promised, the online servers have been shut down for the beta test to the Xbox One and Windows 10 game.
In a blog post, Lionhead stated:
All of us here at Lionhead Studios would like to thank you for participating in the closed beta and being a part of the game's development. All stories have to end eventually, but the memories of Heroic triumphs and Villainous plots will last forever. Thank you for your support - you are all Legends!
The blog adds that while some players who purchased in-game Gold have received refunds, the company is still processing the other refunds that will be put into each player's Microsoft account:
If you have not yet received your refund, please be patient and check back again soon. We will send another notification message to all players when all refunds are complete.
Recent rumors claim that a group of Lionhead team members have been attempting to continue development of Fable Legends on their own, under Microsoft's approval, but so far there's been no confirmation on those reports.
Reader comments
Fable Legends officially shuts down; some refunds for in-game Gold still being processed
Reminds me of 1313. It's been a sad day for sure.
I bought every Fable game that was ever released. Every subsequent release got worse, although I still enjoyed them to an extent. I never played the Beta but feedback wasn't good, by and large. Although I'm a bit saddened by the death of this franchise it obviously was a loser and you have to cut bait at some time.
NEVERMIND FABLE. WHERE THE FCK IS MY PHANTOM DUST. ALL DAT HYPE!!!!!!
i was also sad when EA closed down C&C but life goes on. i hope they concentrate on better titles
Well, at least worse sequels cannot come out now. I don't like the online dominant aspects of certain sequels to classic franchises.
I'm still angry Microsoft turned off Galaxy Reign!!!!! I hate them!!!!
First one was great as a new experience but not the following ones.
Online only wasn't interesting for Fable players imo
I was really looking foward to this game.
It has happened hopefully they will #befast and regain consumer confidance with another ip.
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
So the person who -1 me doesn't want microsoft to be successful in furture titles?
#I #-1 #you #because #this #is #not #twitter #and #you #do #not #need #to #hashtag #words.
but if you add a hashtag then search engins will search for that term. because there smart and recognise it. ;)
Who's searching "befast"? ... *facepalm*
Hi, I'm Microsoft, I want to be sucessful on the game market by closing studios and its games
Haha exactly. So much for their supposed commitment to gaming, huh?
Microsoft isn't the only ones who do this, Sony has closed a number of studios this year. The studio that made DriveClub, the supposed Forza killer, was shut down last month. If Sony is supposedly beating Microsoft left and right with the PS4, then why are they closing just as many studios?
DriveClub was finished and released to the public, and it was never shut down and rendered unplayable.
It was finished and released to the public as a terrible game with many problems, and now with the studio shut down will I and the other people who bought the game get updates?
Still doesn't diminish the fact that Sony also shuts down studios, including those that have been working on unfinished games. But, as usual, it is fine if one company does something but when Microsoft does the same it is some fu***** tradegy that is destroying them as a company and driving away customers in droves.
probably because the game wasn't very good...
Holy surface batman!
Sad, the game looked polished and ready, maybe in the future someone will take a weekend or two to reboot it
The problem with making (and buying) an online only game is that it costs money to keep servers running. Had this game been offline they could've more easily released it to the public (and recuperated some of their sunk costs).
This is the unfortunate try. Age of Empires Online suffered the same fate. I enjoyed that game, but it didn't last long. Now after this, I don't think I'd trust an online only game from Microsoft.
Welcome to the cloud, we're drinking water straight from the rain.
Game was far from polished. It felt like it was stuck in Beta Hell
There are some rumors that they might leave some people to finish it.
What a sad end to a genre defining game(fable 1). I purposely put of completing that game because I didn't want the story to end. A dark cloud fly's over Redmond today but I hope tales from Albion will be told again.
This. The original was a bright highlight in my time of gaming. I think the problem is; None of the other games had the same magic as the original. More so though; the following games never lived up to the expectations that Lionhead set for themselves - Time and time again. Peter has said that many times.
Stupid MS...better spending the money by creating the fourth Skype App. Or the third Groove Music App. Yeah. Stupid.
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
Microsoft... are u high?
Very high, and it's been a while
So how long should MS have kept ploughing money into LionHead with no expectation of a final game EVER coming out?
Got the mail. A sad day indeed.
Meanwhile worse games keep getting released an iterated as sequels...