IGN AU: Nice. Plus, if you don't want to do blacksmithing and want something more involved you could always be an assassin or go out and rob shops.
Peter Molyneux: Exactly. Like everything in this game, whether it's your relationship with your dog or your relationship with your family, it's up to you. Now, one of the coolest things that I love about jobs is this idea of investing… you're going to end up, in the early part of this game, with two or three thousand in gold… what are you going to do with that? You've got a really interesting choice. You've got the choice of buying another weapon, you've got a choice of customising yourself with clothes, or you've got a choice of buying housing, of investing. If you invest there's a little, tiny mechanic that I love.
If you invest, you'll notice that over your hero's head, every five minutes of real-world time, you'll get the income from that investment. So if you have a stall in Bowerstone market, every five minutes you'll get ten gold, doesn't matter if you're out in the wild, or you're questing, or whatever it is, you'll get that ten gold. The cool thing about that ten gold? If you turn your Xbox off, you'll still earn the ten gold every five minutes. So if you go to bed at night and you get up in the morning and you turn on your 360 and go into the Fable world, there'll be one hundred gold waiting for you. For me, I found I was compulsively going round and buying things before I went to bed...
IGN AU: It's also a great mechanic to draw people back into the game if they've put it down for a while because they'll know that they'll have all this money waiting for them.
Peter Molyneux: That's exactly right, and I want you to feel like that. After you've finished
Fable II and you've left it… [one day you'll realise] 'I haven't played the game for three months. How much money would I have?!' It would be brilliant.
