Fable Legends is Now Free-to-Play

<p><em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;fable-legends-pc-announced&sol;">Fable Legends<&sol;a> <&sol;em>won’t cost you one penny to start playing according to new reports out of Lionhead Studios&period; The 4 vs&period; 1 RPG is now going free-to-play rather than a retail or premium digital game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Talking with Kotaku UK&comma; Lionhead creative director David Eckleberry elaborated that the company intends to implement the same business model that the MOBA scene&&num;8217&semi;s experienced lately&comma; rotating heroes and all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re taking on a lot of risk&comma;” Eckleberry said&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I accept that and so does Microsoft&comma; but there’s no risk for you&comma; as a player&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game will release with a number of missions and expansions planned for the near-future&period; According to Lionhead&comma; there won’t be traditional free-to-play paywalls or recharging energy&period; Whether there will be an in-game currency that can be earned to unlock characters &lpar;like League of Legends offers&rpar; has not yet been revealed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Four characters will be available at any one time and should you choose to keep playing after they&&num;8217&semi;re off the free roster&comma; you can pay up for them&period; When those characters to rotate back in&comma; you keep your experience and equipment you’ve earned for them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While Lionhead plans to grow the ongoing closed beta&comma; the game&&num;8217&semi;s still slated for release this year&period; It was further announced at a Windows 10 event last month that the game will allow cross-platform play on both Xbox One and PC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kotaku&period;co&period;uk&sol;2015&sol;02&sol;26&sol;fable-legends-indeed-free-play-bad-thing">Kotaku UK<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;