This is related to the recent information out of the IGN Preview for Fable 2, in which Hillary Goldstein states that Peter Molyneux had Fable II Pub Games glitch intentionally, and that the super-rich will be "surprised" in-game.
This leads to two possibilities: Molyneux is a giant dick/troll, or his PR people are golden.
The first possibility is obvious, let me explain the second to you. In list form.
- Pub Games outsourced, not tested enough, has a large glitch.
- Lionhead freaks out. They were hoping to use Pub Games as another way of earning money in F2, at the most. It was of minor importance to them.
- Lionhead decides they will try working on a patch. Discovers patch would take too much work.
- Lionhead goes out and changes Fable II instead, adding yet another consequence (a system of code already in place) for the incredibly rich upon their transfer of gold to Fable characters.
- Super rich people who earned money legitimately are screwed. People who glitched are screwed. Lionhead catches flak, but at least Fable II economy isn't totally broken (arguably).
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