Whats the deal with fable 3

[Shoko Asahara.]

I pose a plain question. If fable 3 being on pc is simply a matter of generating keys then what excuse do they have aside from being either lazy, cheap, or both? ( edit: they being whoever owns the rights to the franchise, the who literally does not matter)

[SoulSteppe]

It was dependent on Games for Windows Live, which was discontinued. so the entire game was brought down when that service closed. There are some workarounds somewhere, but I haven't tried.

[Shoko Asahara.]

Thats a pretty poor reason to not have it on pc, for how many years?

[Doc Shinpao]

I'm not so sure it's solely because of GFWL being discontinued.
I can still log in GFWL and play Fable 3 pc with my Xbox account.
The only thing not working anymore with it are the dlc.

Now, about Fable 3 being removed from the store, from what I can remember back in the days, Lionhead (rip) said there weren't anymore activation key being made, and Microsoft didn't plan in doing some more, so the game has been removed from the store.
They were probably too busy killing Lionhead with Fable Legends I guess.

Still, why keys ? Well courtesy of GFWL. (Okay, maybe it's 75% the fault of GFWL)
Halo 2 Vista, Gears 1, same issue. Well, Halo side, MCC is here now.

But Gears OG ? We have the ultimate edition, which is a remaster, on Windows Store only.
If I want to play the vanilla version on PC, for reason X or Y, like Fable, I can still log in and play it.

For Fable 3, what I don't understand is why they didn't transfer the game to be GFWL-less like some third party publisher did.

I have Bioshock for GFWL, and 2K converted the key to a Steam key, so I could redeem it on Steam.

They could either do that, or convert the GFWL login system to the current modern one on Win10/11. (Heck, I'm pretty sure its roots are from Win8)

Xbox team tends to really neglect some of their games on PC. If not most of them..

[Shoko Asahara.]

Originally posted by Doc Shinpao:

I'm not so sure it's solely because of GFWL being discontinued.
I can still log in GFWL and play Fable 3 pc with my Xbox account.
The only thing not working anymore with it are the dlc.

Now, about Fable 3 being removed from the store, from what I can remember back in the days, Lionhead (rip) said there weren't anymore activation key being made, and Microsoft didn't plan in doing some more, so the game has been removed from the store.
They were probably too busy killing Lionhead with Fable Legends I guess.

Still, why keys ? Well courtesy of GFWL. (Okay, maybe it's 75% the fault of GFWL)
Halo 2 Vista, Gears 1, same issue. Well, Halo side, MCC is here now.

But Gears OG ? We have the ultimate edition, which is a remaster, on Windows Store only.
If I want to play the vanilla version on PC, for reason X or Y, like Fable, I can still log in and play it.

For Fable 3, what I don't understand is why they didn't transfer the game to be GFWL-less like some third party publisher did.

I have Bioshock for GFWL, and 2K converted the key to a Steam key, so I could redeem it on Steam.

They could either do that, or convert the GFWL login system to the current modern one on Win10/11. (Heck, I'm pretty sure its roots are from Win7)

Xbox team tends to really neglect some of their games on PC. If not most of them..

Seems like a more elegant and concise way of saying they are being lazy and/or cheap please correct me if I am wrong.

[Doc Shinpao]

You're not wrong, that I can say.

But not everything are blue or red, even if it doesn't look too good on PC.

They stopped the backward compatibility program because they reached the end of what was possible.
But I'm looking at the Xbox catalog, and I'm seeing some Microsofts games left behind like ... Fable. Or Midtown Madness.

Honestly, some times I don't know what to think, on one hand they rerelease old games on Windows store for insider ring, and the on the other, there are no follow-up, they don't go further.

They're here going on giving money left and right for games on gamepass, to third party publishers, but the thing right in front of them, they just don't budge.

[Doc Shinpao]

Yeah they're kind of lazy aren't they ?

[skywalkerog007]

You can actually play Fable 3 on PC, but it's not through steam. You have to have a PC, have the Xbox app, sign up for Gamepass Cloud (the more expensive Gamepass tier for $15/mo I believe), then if you go under the cloud games that are offered you can find and play Fable 3. It totally sucks that its not on steam, but this is the only way I found to play Fable 3 on the PC. Also there's no way to mod the game or use a trainer since its cloud based, but if you dont care for that, then your best option is to sign up for gamepass and play it through there. Or just wait for the new Fable thats coming out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_03JQUc9Ao&ab_channel=GameSpot

[Shoko Asahara.]

Originally posted by skywalkerog007:

You can actually play Fable 3 on PC, but it's not through steam. You have to have a PC, have the Xbox app, sign up for Gamepass Cloud (the more expensive Gamepass tier for $15/mo I believe), then if you go under the cloud games that are offered you can find and play Fable 3. It totally sucks that its not on steam, but this is the only way I found to play Fable 3 on the PC. Also there's no way to mod the game or use a trainer since its cloud based, but if you dont care for that, then your best option is to sign up for gamepass and play it through there. Or just wait for the new Fable thats coming out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_03JQUc9Ao&ab_channel=GameSpot

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[GreenZone3oo2]

Fable 3 was my childhood, I tried making good choices but I would f up and at the end I was evil.

[permanent name]

tied up with the rights to the german production of the gothic 3 tv series announced in 2009.

the german license holders are squatting on the rights until someone pays them back for the tv series.