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Online Weapon Auction Dropped from Fable III

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Online Weapon Auction Dropped from Fable III​

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Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has told OXM that the studio has dropped one of the Xbox Live features from Fable 3 because of a shortage of resources.

When the game was first announced, it was to include an advanced form of weapon trading: weapons would evolve depending on how you use them and the size of your Gamerscore, and you would then be able to trade the custom weapons online.

No longer, we were told at Gamescom. The weapon customisation and evolution is all present, but the auction system proved too much. "The burden of running this online auction server became a burden too many," said Molyneux.

"It was on our list of features to do, but we had the choice of doing the main co-op right, and balancing the game, or we could do the trading house. And we decided to do the co-op."

You can still trade weapons, but you have to do it one-on-one with people on your Friends list: as in Fable 2, they appear as orbs within your world which you can interact with. Or you can haul them in as a henchman using the aforementioned co-op; any loot or skills you earn can be taken back into your game.​
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Hmm...that's a little disappointing. But I suppose if there's any certain kind of weapon that I'm dying to buy, I can probably come on here and try to buy one, right?
 
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Who wants to bet PM is going to remove several more fun features before the game is released?
 
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Well, I'm glad that Peter Molyneux announced that an expected feature was removed. However, this wasn't an important feature anyway.
 
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GrimWhim;418569 said:
Who wants to bet PM is going to remove several more fun features before the game is released?
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yeah lionhead will prob get rid of some more features that i was looking forward to. this did look pretty damned awesome but nevermind. i know its unlickley but they might release it later on in an update or DLC
 
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Wait...why didn't I hear anything about this weapon auctioning system? Bah, whatever. I just expected to be trading weapons one on one like in Fable 2. This didn't change anything for me.
 
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I was never really that interested in this feature and im glad he informed everyone well in advance.
 
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Hopefully this will be the only feature taken out. Not too big of a deal I suppose.
 
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oh well we can just add people for friends on the marketplace join co op trade remove friend and we happy
 
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Really? I'm only glad about that they informed us early and that they used the extra time to improve something else.
 
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Necromancer11;418586 said:
Wait...why didn't I hear anything about this weapon auctioning system? Bah, whatever. I just expected to be trading weapons one on one like in Fable 2. This didn't change anything for me.
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I think you can only trade weapons while in co-op, so no freelance auctions on bowerstone clock either.
 
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I'm glad that PM informed us in advanced but honestly it doesn't seem like it would have been that great of a thing anyways. I just hope that they don't remove any of the big features that they have been bragging about. Im really looking forward to the changing weapon system.
 
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that would have been so beast
 
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DarkONI;418577 said:
Well, I'm glad that Peter Molyneux announced that an expected feature was removed. However, this wasn't an important feature anyway.
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Are you kidding me? This was one of the features I was looking forward to. I had plans to just get a bunch of different weapons, level them up and then sell 'em on the marketplace for gold to fund my kingdom. I thought it was a great idea but hell, I should have known better.
 
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Yeh, this feature didn't really mean much to me anyway, I was only ever going to one on one trade with friends.
And what does he mean Henchman? I hope he's just used the wrong wording.
 
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GhostlyIcicle;418686 said:
Yeh, this feature didn't really mean much to me anyway, I was only ever going to one on one trade with friends.
And what does he mean Henchman? I hope he's just used the wrong wording.
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Eeh...I figured he was still referring to Fable II's multiplayer but it seems that you might be right. I hope they aren't secretly telling us that they're bringing the henchman thing back...
 
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GrimWhim;418674 said:
Are you kidding me? This was one of the features I was looking forward to. I had plans to just get a bunch of different weapons, level them up and then sell 'em on the marketplace for gold to fund my kingdom. I thought it was a great idea but hell, I should have known better.
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I thought you were a magic only kind of guy.

GrimWhim;417242 said:
That would be terrible. Why would I want enemies to become more resistant to my attacks? That would force me to use something I don't want to use which in turn would kill the whole "Pure Will" play style that I'm so fond of. At that point, I'd have no interest in the game. I don't know if others would feel the same way but I can tell you this, there would be quite a few people unhappy with something like that.
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As it is, I'm not remotely upset about the loss of this. You can still trade for gold with people here, or other forums, if you add them as friends. I'm glad they are focusing on co-op, since everyone likes *****ing about how much THAT sucked last time around.
 
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POOP;418704 said:
Eeh...I figured he was still referring to Fable II's multiplayer but it seems that you might be right. I hope they aren't secretly telling us that they're bringing the henchman thing back...
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Yeh, let's hope not. They'd be taking out probably one of the more looked-forward-to features. That'd be a HUGE mistake
 
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they should put it back ok
 
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Lynne;418715 said:
I thought you were a magic only kind of guy.



As it is, I'm not remotely upset about the loss of this. You can still trade for gold with people here, or other forums, if you add them as friends. I'm glad they are focusing on co-op, since everyone likes *****ing about how much THAT sucked last time around.
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I do use magic. However, that doesn't mean I can't use melee weapons or guns simply to level them up and then sell them to benefit myself or to buy myself better clothing, gauntlets, etc. I don't know if we'll actually have to purchase gauntlets or not or how that works but I assume it's something like that.

Good for you.
 
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