March 16th 2009 10:12 am PT

Umm, little typo there?

“The award winning Xbox original game Fable, normally priced at 1200 points, is now available for Xbox LIVE Gold Members for 240 points, a savings of 40%.”

And to make it worse, neither of the figures are correct. It’s available for 800 points, which is a saving of 33%.

I wish it was 240 points.

240pts? =P

Haha. Exactly why I came here too. 1200pts to 240pts != 40% off.

240pts = Definite buy.

800pts = No thanks.

240pts = Definite buy.

800pts = No thanks.

aka JOECOOL 76 I dont think I would buy this for 800 pts

240!? Too good to be true? I’m sure these typos are intentional…

haha i was gonna be like no way

Hard to see how it can be an “accidental” typo… if either 240 or 40% had one, maybe two digits wrong (and were close to what they should have been) then you could understand it… but a difference this big surely can’t be an accident

I think it’s a ploy to get people to blindly buy it thinking it’s only 240 points

disappointed

not gonna lie Major, the typo is quite disappointing.

I’ve got the original disc, so I will skip this one

lol 800 not 240

240 points, 800 points, I don’t care how much it is as long as I’m able to buy it….but alas…..I’m not……….damn marketplace region lock >__>

this so would have got a buy at 240.. 800? will pass thanks, can pick up the hard copy cheaper at CEX

How about the first 50 replies get it for 240 MSP? C’mon you know it makes sense!

I paid full price for this before Christmas, and I still haven’t had time to even boot it up

Hehehe, proof reading FTW!!!!

I was gutted for a moment, as I already bought it when it first went up on originals. Not that I can play it as xbox orignals no longer work on my 360, for some strange reason. Ever since I bought the 120gb HDD. Anyone else have or had this problem?

nice… see now if this were I game store they would have to give us that price or get sued O.O

i bought this a while ago when it first appeared on the marketplace

the constant freezes and loud buzzes were very dissapointing especially when the game was cheaper to buy disc version(which i should of done,as i would of got the Lost Chapters)

Link says content not found .. is this the lost chapters, or just the original fable? I ask as I can get Lost Chapters for 99p in Game

it does not work like that @Shadow0810, it is a total misconception that you can order that an item is sold to you at a marked price..

“Under law, a retailer is entitled to decide the price he wants to charge for his goods. The price on display is simply what the law calls an ‘invitation to treat’. In the same way you don’t have to buy goods from anyone, a retailer is under no obligation to sell you anything. You cannot insist that a shop sells you anything at a marked price, whether or not they have made a mistake.”

That is the British trading standards law and I believe the US law is much the same.

For 240 points I’d buy it and not sweat ever playing it.

Maths not a strong point Major !! LOL

They should have lower the price of the Knothole Island DLC for Fable 2 instead of an old Xbox game that everyone have on disc and can backward play.

For anyone wondering, it’s not the superior Lost Chapters.

So much for that good start to the morning. What a massive difference in points. 800 is still good but 240 is far better

240 points, Yes Please

It is really 800pts. I had to check to make sure, for 240pts I would have bought it right now.

I’ve never played this, but still won’t buy it at this price…or whatever price it’s really being sold for!

1. @Shadow0810 and MikeCaelen – that is how it is in US too. The item in question is the property of the store. they can do what they want with it. They only drop the price to what it is marked to appease those who want a free meal and encourage them to come back. It’s not a very large issue since most states don’t even price items other than a few that have a mandatory pricing audit (ie Michigan). The only “law” that governs sale prices is the bounty law, but that gives you 10% of the overcharged amount or up to a MAX of $5 off depending on the circumstances.

2. 240 pts… if only.

It is 800 points. I have corrected the post. It was always supposed to be 800 points, that was an error on my end.

Kinda sad that Fable, a fantastic game you could play for countless hours, is now the same price is Peggle, lol…

add achievements.

240pts = Definite buy.

800pts = No thanks

If they really want us to buy all this downloadable content, how about giving us a deal on hard drives. Using the full game install on the game I play the most on my 20gig makes me juggle deleting and reinstalling all these pick up and play downloads.

I wouldn’t buy it for 20 points… I’d rather buy The Lost Chapters for $20. (I do have both versions on disk though )

Should’ve been around this price anyways. Almost every best buy I go to still has fable:TLC for 9.99. All ready played the hell out of it though so won’t be getting this.

I really can’t figure out the market for these xbox originals, I mean, you can walk into pretty much any gaming store and pick up old xbox games for 99p in some places.

The mind boggles that people would pay 800pts for one, let alone 1200pts!!!!!

In terms of the 240 points and 40% savings error, that is purely the amount and saving for the PGR4 pack that was last weeks deal.

Wow, deal of the week is basically a game which almost EVERYONE has on disc. I already have TLC. How about you put a deal on the Puzzle Quest expansion and we will talk numbers.

What a bloody waste You can stick that deal up your arse

Everyone has this already! I still have my Lost Chapters copy and Xbox 1. And this isn’t even the Lost Chapters version. Deals of the Week should have more universal appeal than this.

A lot of the Xbox Originals should only be 800 to start with. You can generally get the original disks for that price or less. And sense Xbox Originals don’t add achievements, why pay $15 for something you can get for less than $10.

I got the lost chapers version for £3

If you added achievements, I’d purchase this and other xbox orginals. Same with community games. Because there are no achievements, I’ve purchased 0 from either catagory.

This is not worth buying. Just a warning it’s full of bugs and glitches and it does not support widescreen.

this is a slap to the face. Xbox is scamming people. Fable has been discontinued from lionhead. The game you should be selling is Fable: The Lost Chapters!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fully agree.

240pts = Definite buy.

800pts = No thanks.

I didn’t manage to buy it when it was 600 points during the holidays but I wouldn’t buy it at 800 points now. The price point for this deal is 600 or bust.

i also have wondered why lost chapters isnt the one they put up… hell they put up Ninja Gaiden Black….

If it was Fable: The Lost Chapters I would buy it.

It would be cool if they added 200 achievement points to Xbox originals and get the whole DRM thing worked out. I was told from Xbox support that I could not transfer my licenses from a pro to an elite 360. They said it can only go from same SKU to same SKU. So the license transfer tool does not work for me on Xbox.com.

If this was The Lost Chapters version I would say it is an okay deal but since this is the original version I say to avoid it and just go spend $10US on a used copy of The Lost Chapters since it is way better than this version.

@Ganon255

Support BS’d you, my friends and I have both had our licences transferred to new consoles/sku’s.

Have you tried the licence transfer tool?

@Sonic Alpha – Yes and it did not work for me. That is why I called support.

@Ganon255 – I too have done a transfer from a Pro to an Elite. You should call support again and see if you get a decent rep this time.

#1 – When Halo was deal of the week it was 600.
#2 – This is STILL not Lost Chapters.

Fail.
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@BeLGaRaTh – Really?!

@Ganon255
You were definitely BS’d by a bad support rep. You can transfer licenses between ANY SKU. I transfered all mine recently from my Pro to a new Elite. I have friends who have done the opposite and also from Arcade to Pro.

Oh yeah, and this “deal” is rubbish. Why can’t Microsoft and developers see that if they dropped their Marketplace prices they would have soooo many more people buying their products. What would you rather have?, 1000 people buying the game at 800MSP or 3500 people buying the game at 240MSP?. And why would anyone spend 800MSP on a DLC game when you can pick up a hard copy from a game store for less than half the price??.

@ oO MG81 Oo

$500.00 is your argument and some people don’t want a hard copy.

If it was the lost chapters I would consider buying it

@CARNAGE RULES
Those figures I gave were purely to make a point. What I’m saying is its better to have more people playing your game by charging less for it and at the same time you’ll ultimately make more money. Also, the chances are that by charging so little for a game you’ll end up enticing new people who’ve never played Fable into buying it and they might then go on to buy the full Fable 2 360 game (+ any future Fable games or DLC). Greed and short sightedness seems to be the main reason we see old Xbox original games and trashy arcade games so grossly overpriced.

The point I made about hard copies is just my personal point of view. I really don’t get why people are happy to spend so much more on something that is locked down by DRM and doesn’t exist in the real world. I prefer to pay less and get a hard copy with box art, manual, can be added to the collection on my shelf + can be used in ANY Xbox I choose at ANY time.

MikeCaelen, I think you should do some research on the term “False Advertising”.

I see your point but, I would say the numbers game they’re playing is that they don’t believe there are that many consumers left for this title. Charging the 10.00 and getting everyone they can is probably a better bet than 3.00 when there just isn’t the demand for it anymore. Let’s be honest 3.00 is never a price we will see and I personally have too many games to put on a shelf and would love to put all of them on a hard drive but, they don’t make a petabyte drive. I throw the boxes away, just too many of them.

They need to actually discount stuff people haven’t bought yet… deals are worth a damn if you already own the content.

its funny because I purchased FTLC 2 years ago for 10 bucks

I paid $5 for a new disk copy 2 years ago.

I wold get it but it is just not worth spending 800 points on a game with no achievements

I really like the idea Major of discounted deals, but ever since the first week the deals have been basically worthless in my opinion. It would be nice to get discounts on some of the major downloads that people actually download. Maybe some Castle crashers for 800, banjo kazooie for 800. I would discount all the games that are 1200 points and make them 800 on certain weeks, bc 1200 is too much for an arcade game. I bought braid the day it turned 800. Anyway just a suggestion, and thanks, and hopefully keep the good deals coming.

Or you could go to Gamestop and buy a used copy of this for literally like 4 dollars

@WalkerTXRan9er
I downloaded Braid because of the deal of the week, If Castle Crashers was a deal of the week for no more than 800 I would also buy for sure

I went to Gamestop yesterday and they told me $17.99 for a used version of Fable:TLC. So I guess this Originals version is cheaper, but to echo previous comments it apparently does NOT include The Lost Chapters. I’m going to have to pass on buying this for $10.

Why wouldn’t Xbox sell this for $5 (400 points) instead? It’s all free money at this point. Xbox isn’t even paying to produce a physical disc. I’m not supporting this business model unless the pricing becomes more sensible.