@BR4DL3I9H: Well I know that every house, dungeon, etc. will be for sale in Fable 2 so I bet getting alot of gold in the Pub games will pay off, maybe enough to buy some houses or so but in the big scheme it won't be enough to buy everything.

Dolgo

yep, i got my code yesterday from gamestop. it's free if you preorder for at least $10.

s0njas0n

Is there anything stopping people from playing the game continuously and starting the game with enough money to buy everything? I personally will not be buying it, but i do plan to pre-order the game, so maybe if its free with a pre-order then i might play it.

BR4DL3I9H

I don't see how anyone can say this is not a good idea. Free games (with pre-order), free achievements. I bet if this was some new Card Game thats featured in the next Final Fantasy it would be big smiles and woots!

Dolgo

@enewtabie: Thanks even better!

Dolgo

@Dolgo:
Yes it has achievements. The layout doesn't work,but this is it.

Earn a 3-star rating
High Roller's Club 20
Earn a 5-star rating
I Want It All 40
Earn all 15 unique items
No Stone Unturned 10
Get a jackpot in Keystone
Warrior's Luck 10
Get a jackpot in Fortune's Tower
Serious Stakeholder 20
Have a bankroll over 2,500 gold
Penultimate Player 10
Place in a tournament
Big Spinner 10
Win Big (at least 100 times your bet) at any Spinnerbox game
Fortunate Finder 10
Unlock a new game of any type
Lucky Locksmith 30
Unlock all games
Champion of Chance 30
Win a tournament
Fabled Financier 0
Play a pub game with your Fable® II Hero

enewtabie

@Moopman133: Except that the Gamestop is really far compared to the Circuit City near by which also gives me 10% off game purchases.

So I prefer CC.

karasu is my homeboy

@Mutton-Chops:

Chinchirorin.

Am I a nerd?

Wahrheit

@Dolgo: By the game I mean the Pub games.

Dolgo

@3inst3in: I think the Gamestops just got the cards, and the game comes out tomorrow so im sure you can get it anytime before the game comes out baring the store has not run out of cards. The store I went to had a large stack of them.

Dolgo

Does anyone know if you have to preorder before the pub games are released in order to receive the free doanload, or can I preorder anytime before fable 2 is released and still receive the pub games free?

3inst3in

OH by the way I picked up my download card and it says you unlock 15 items and 15 pieces of game art by beating the XBLA Pup games. So that is cool too. Not to mention I bet it has achievements too. For 10 dollars when you pre-order you get them which goes towards the purchase. This is a no brainer.

Dolgo

@enewtabie: Yes.. yes he did :| Perhaps not to the detail of your scenario but a promise he did make.

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

@nottsville: Pre-order Fable II and it's free. Otherwise it's $10.

XbhaskarX

@karasu is my homeboy: If you are going to get Fable 2 anyways you might as well pre-order it from Gamestop and get the pub games free.

Moopman133

@okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under):

Is that something Peter promised? Maybe you get too much gold and then have to go to the grocery store and spend it on dog food,but the dog eats too much and dies..then your character feels saddness and goes on a murder rampage and kills his future son in law.I don't know,it's possible.

enewtabie

My annoyance with this concept will entirely depend on how good these games are... Otherwise just seems like a lame cash-in.

thefais

Game of "Lucky Hit" this is not.

def PD

I wonder if you can order a hot coffee with your gambling?

dmcshinobi

I remember wasting tons of time playing that dice game in Suikoden II, racking up scads of cash for my party. Enjoyed it so much that I started playing it in real life with a couple friends, as a drinking game. What the hell was it called? Anywho, these pub games seem like a great idea to me. Better than say, microtransactions.

Mutton-Chops

Before you all go off becoming rich for the game, remember that that you will be come more portly with every gold piece you earn for being a lazy fat-ass!

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

It should be hoard, not horde! :|

Namos

I'm still torn on this. Don't get me wrong; I think that it's a brilliant idea from a marketing perspective. I'm just curious if the ability to get tons of cash in Pub Games before the release is going to tweak the in-game economy of Fable II. In a nutshell, will the fact that players will be able to effectively start with tons of cash mean that all prices in the game will be inflated? I don't particularly want to spend the points on this (800 MS Points, I thought I'd seen) if prices will be fairly standard and relatively easy to afford. But, if everything goes to a Lifestyles of the Rich and Adventurous pricing metric, it'd kind of piss me off.
Then again, I could just be thinking waaaay too much into this.

Malkiyyah

I never played Fable 1. But how important is the money in these games? Seems kinda like cheating to me.

liquid_kore

So basically, play the pub games and then play Fable 2.

Looks like I won't be doing that as I don't see the point in the whole "spend 10 real life dollars to have some extra fake life dollars in Fable" thing. I'll just make money as I play, as it should be.

I'm all for being creative, like ToV offering experience points for purchase. That's a cool new idea. This, not so much.

karasu is my homeboy

Though in theory its a nice idea, it could spoil the gaming experience for people. Part of the fun of playing an RPG is struggling for equipment (translates to cash) at the start of the game.

Though the Fable 2 team has been saying again and again that its up to you how you manage your game. Like for instance, since co-op is allowed at any time, if you choose to bring a level 50 partner into the world of a level 1, its your players decision. So I guess it makes sense

SansSanity

No thanks for me

tooji

Yeah any details on pricing for a small part of an actual game. If it was free they might be able to get people into the games so they will buy Fable 2. Just a crazy though.

JustJake

800points... but they are free if you preorder (in some places)

Moosebox

Anyone know how much they are? I don't really feel like shelling out a tonne of MS points just so i can have a fat wad of cash when i start my Fable 2 quest!

nottsville

Does it allow you to download a trial version of the games ?

DigitalBloodUK

I was just wondering if there will be downloadable doggy armour? and will it be purchaseable with pub games money or will it cost you microsoft points? Just imagine for 200 points you could have red doggy armour, 200 for silver, 300 for gold and a special bargain price of 550 points for the whole lot?

RogerGerald

@3inst3in: good idea

Dolgo

Well considering I liked to own everything in the first Fable, I like this. Especially since supposedly to own everything in Fable II requires GOBS of money (like millions of gold), then this couldn't hurt to help me in that process.

rabidkeebler

I have my code sitting next to my 360 just waiting for tomorrow. As others have said, it's free when you pre-order as long as the store has cards left to give out. I couldn't pass it up. I don't see myself sitting down just to play the pub games all that often, but free is free.

MantisDragon

well I'm not preordering Fable II so I will be purchasing this. I mean, you get achievements, AND there's items and such that won't be in the game that you can purchase through the Pub Games... seems like a pretty good deal to me.

offsafety

@Dolgo: well, I meant could I preorder fable 2 in a week or two and still get the pub games for free. but, w/e, I was going to preorder it anyway, I'll jsut do it after work today.

3inst3in

Interesting idea. I'm not totally sold on buying it stand-alone for XBLA, but I'll probably pre-order the game this weekend so I can get access to the games for free. I've been planning on getting Fable 2 anyway.

I'd think you would have to spend a whole lot of time with the Arcade title to really break Fable 2's economy. If the first one was any indication, there is going to be a lot more for sale than just gear such as houses and whatnot. Starting out with some extra gold could be pretty nice.

deadjesterx

Cool, gonna pre-order after work to get these. Gotta finish Braid before I start gambling though. I'm soooo stuck in that game, I feel like a moron :-(

Gray665

So if you live outside the US you're screwed as usual.

NorthernAvengeR

What's to lose with a pre-order.

Get rich-like and go buy some wild equipment first thing you do.

Wonder how the balance issues will work out?

sir_carrot

Is the pre-order and get the pub games free offer only limited to the US or is it worldwide? I've pre-ordered off Amazon as I usually do, but don't seem to of gotten an email etc about it.

Pudgey

I like the idea behind it. I don't really consider it cheating in any way, though, because you're spending time in-game "working" to make the money. In theory, you'd be able to do this if you just purchased Fable anyway.

It's a neat little preview of what's to come and the fact that it carries over to the actual game is novel. I wouldn't want to see things like this for every upcoming game, but it's still a cool idea.

beta_angel

I wouldn't be too concerned about breaking the bank in the pub games. The odds are significantly in the houses favour and even the cheap houses in the game cost 15.000g The castle costs 1 million. You'll be lucky if you start with enough money to buy a house and a sword. There are unique items you can unlock and buy in the pub games like dog tricks and new weapons. Worth it for the 12 unlockable items.

scroll33

I remember making Money in Fable... it wasn't that hard, and there where many different ways to do it.

the first one I tried was the realty trick... buy a house, put trophies on the wall (ups resale value), sell the house, break in to steal trophies, buy house again... etc...

The best one was the jewel trick... you run around and buy as many of one jewel as you could find... then go to a market and sell those jewels... once you have a stockpile of jewels, you can keep buying them and selling them to the same vendor...when you sell them, they will be worth big bucks because the vendor has none, when you buy them, they won't be worth much because the vendor has a ton of them...

Nside

What happens with this after Fable II comes out? If I just want to chill and gamble a little bit without hunting down the Fable II disk will my winnings (or losses) still go to or from to my in-game character? If so that would be kind of cool. Plus I'm always down for some gambling.

the-hypnotoad

Doggy gear is going to be the main selling point of this game.

...The Arcade pub games that is, not Fable 2.

Crawl to China

@Pudgey: I think the free pub games was a gamestop thing. I could be wrong but thats where I got mine from and I don't remember ever hearing Amazon doing something like that.

SimbaMaliki

/dwightshrute

QUESTION. I pre-ordered Fable 2 at Gamestop through the website. It says they'll e-mail me the code to download the game. Do I get this e-mail after I pre-order or is it something I'll see in my mailbox when Pub Games comes out?

Jerkfish

That's if you order at the store. On the website it says "Online / In-Store Pickup Customers: Codes and instructions for Pub Games will be emailed to you. Please provide valid email address at time of order. "

Just wondering since I've yet to receive any e-mail. I assume at this point they'll send it out tomorrow.

Jerkfish

This would be much more exciting news if this was made for a portable (hint hint, Microsoft).

boopadoo

@Jerkfish:

There's actually a card at gamestop you have to go pick up.

Terance!

:D Happy Face :D I can;t wait for it to be out. I Pre-Ordered it and got the code (Try Gamestop) But it don't work till tomorrow (Wensday) according to GS.

shisuka

definetly getting this,unfortunately it doesnt look like the pre-order thing is happening in the UK,so 800 points it is

Fable II is my most anticipated release this year

metallicorphan

@Nside: Yeah, the Fable economy was just as broken as most RPGs. At the very beginning, you're struggling to scrounge up enough for slightly better armor and weapons, but around the middle of the game you have piles of money and not a damn thing to spend it on. GTA IV was the same way.

Hopefully PM's claims about how much it would cost to buy everything proves true, so that there is an incentive to make more money.

seafisch

@s0njas0n: Huh, I only preordered for $5 and picked up my card yesterday. Guess i got lucky

goboard117

Yeah, Gamestop's website does say if you pre-order online for in-store pickup they'll email you the code.

I might call Gamestop today and ask if I can get one of those code cards because I pre-ordered, just to attempt to cover my bases.

MaxSteele

Update:

A person on the Lionhead forums emailed Gamestop asking about when they would receive the Pub Games code from pre-ordering online and choosing in-store pickup. The response was:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting GameStop.com.

We are preparing the codes to go out within the next 24 hours.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to respond to this
email.

Best Regards,
Travis
Customer Service Agent

MaxSteele

Disregard my question I just found out it does, makes it even more awesome. :)

WPack911

I pre-ordered today from Gamestop and got my code, totally looking forward to playing this tom. Anybody know if this game has achievements?

WPack911

I just got my Pub Games code in my email! 100 million gold, here I come!

MaxSteele

You don't get it for free unless you preorder from Gamestop? Well, that sucks for anyone outside the US. YEAH NICE ONE GUYS! CHEERS! I'll just pay the best part of a tenner for it then. Might as well buy some WoW gold whilst I'm at it, even though I don't play it any more.

That reminds me, I need to buy some more copies of Monopoly so I can take the money from that, keep it on my person at all times and have the edge if someone challenges me to a game, ever. It could happen.

Think I'll make my Fable 2 currency the old fashioned way... prostitution.

OddyKnocky

Ya, I understand what a lot of people are saying here about having a mass-amount of gold from the start might ruin the experience. But, if you guys remember, your characters have a limited amount of time to live before the grow old so grinding the quests for gold may damper the quality of life for your char. Anyways, if you want to own every building in a town, I don't see it happening without using Pub Games to get gold.

Cagny

Yeah well don't get too excited peeps. Ive unlocked all the items games and artwork. Now i'm in debt BIG DEBT. If this transfers over to the game i'll be a begger outside of the aforementioned castles!

Smidger666

yeah well don't get too excited peeps. I've unlocked all the items, games and artwork and now i'm in debt BIG DEBT. If this transfers over to the game then i'm gonna be begging outside the aforementioned castles!

Smidger666