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Fable III's Online Auction House Scrapped
Game designer Peter Molyneaux is infamous for promising too much of his upcoming games, and it looks like Fable III is no exception. At this year's Gamescom, Molyneaux revealed that Fable III's planned auction house, which was to be used to sell your custom-crafted weapons, will no longer be a feature in the retail game.
Citing the burden of running an online server for the auction house, Molyneaux told OXM that the decision to scrap the feature was a matter of priorities. "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."
It's hard to argue with that kind of logic, and luckily the game's unique weapon evolution system is still completely in tact. You can also still trade weapons with friends via your Friends List or in-game antics. Hopefully we won't lose any more of the ambitious additions to Fable III before its October 26 release.
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