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Putting the fable in Fable II
Here's a little puzzle for you. What's wrong with the following two statements:
Along with more choices, and the consequences associated with those choices, Fable II boasts an improved combat system for mastering weapons and magic, an AI canine best friend and the much-anticipated Dynamic Co-op Mode, adding multiplayer functionality for you and your friends.
- EB Games newsletter
Lionhead is still making some tweaks to the online co-op formula. They assure us that online co-op is still coming, and that the goal is to have it launch within the first week after the release in North America. They also clarify that you will still be able to see your friends as glowing orbs prior to the update, but the online interactions will be limited to chat.
Did you spot it? The little lie. Or not so little, depending on whether you think claiming a product has something that it won't actually have is a 'little' lie. I'm sure the goblins in Marketing are so desensitized to hyperbole that they don't even categorize outright lies as lies anymore. Perhaps if pressed they'd explain that "It depends on whether 'has' means current tense or future current tense. Because in the future it'll be true. Almost certainly. Probably. Unless it will cost us too much money. Anyway, where's the harm?" The harm is in lying through your bungholes to get people to buy something that doesn't actually *do* what you claim it can do. We used to call that 'consumer fraud', and it got companies in trouble. Ah.. those were the days!