Lionhead Planning Microtransaction Store for Fable 3

Does anyone here actually buy weapons for any game that sells them?

Fable 4 - MMORPG.

Micro-transactions are macro-shit.

Well this might be the stopping point for Fable and Molyneux for me.

I'm not really worried this is Molyneux promising something new for his games :)

I have never, and will never buy items, clothing, pictures, etc etc with real life money. The only DLC I consider are "mini-expansions" with quest/explore/item/ whatever content. If someone somewhere is making money off these mini-transactions. Good for them, but I guarantee you if this practice becomes to invasive to someone who simply want's to buy and play though a game as a one time purchase, you will begin losing some of those sales.

Probably no amount of "micro-content" is going to add up to anything close to a full-blown expansion pack. Some weapons, a bunch of clothes, a few quests, and even a new map or two just can't be as coherent as Brood Wars, Throne of Bhaal, or Beyond the Sword. The cost to the consumer is the same, but the value is way less.

Most of the DLC makers are missing the point--what gamers want is something that adds to the story and makes the base game even better. Instead they shovel some goodies and a new side-quest shortly after release, but then they run out of energy and just go back to work on the next title. Remember all the new content we were supposed to get for Mass Effect? Same deal with Fable II. Both those games were just crying for fuller expansions.

Maybe I should just forget the 1990s and be a "good consumer" instead.

So many developers walking around with dollar signs in their eyes. It'd be nice to see some more new franchises on the market.

wow, wow, wow. How gaming if failing fast due to DLC. If it continues to head down this road I can actually see myself giving up gaming all together. A thought I've never considered in my dozens of years of gaming. Corporations suits involvement in gaming needs to die. :\

The only way I would even begin to agree with this model is if it was set up in the following fashion...

All items are obtainable in game with both game currency and real currency. By spending real currency you are able to get the weapon with the amount of effort it takes you pull out a credit card. In the real game, the weapons must be earned with cash and/or rep. Of course, to get the uuber weapons it may take 10 hours of game work, or 5 dollars, whichever you prefer.

This works well because it allows all gamers to enjoy the game in their own way, whether it be by choice or by circumstance.

For example: I had a friend who used to play Super Smash Bros blindfolded for a challenge, and played the entire halo trilogy through a mirror on legendary. He didnt do this because he was epic, but rather because he was so broke he couldnt afford bargain games, and the one game he did get he played the hell out of because he had a real passion for gaming. Now, if he were to choose to spend his next xmas wad completely on getting fable III, and found out he needed more money to fully enjoy the game, i can imagine he would be very upset.

I on the other hand, dont care about worthless gather-em-up quests and such, (See: The flags in Assassins Creed) so I would rather spend a few bucks to get a weapon that I KNOW I will never earn otherwise.

And of course it would only be fair to make his sword blue and mine green, so when we played online, everyone knew he was dedicated and I am just a lazy bum.

Sigh. I'm sure all games will be this way in ten years. At least by then I'll be 40 and too old to enjoy them anyway.

I guess this "might" be a way to do DLC within the game rather than externally? Doesn't sound like it, but I guess you could.

In that case, if we're using the MMO model, Fable 3 better be FREE.

haha im not buying swords unless its with ingame money.