'Fable' Will Be Open-World RPG, Not MMO, Confirms Insider

There's been some confusion surrounding the new Fable since its announcement last week. The incredibly brief teaser at the Xbox Series X game event confirmed two things: That the game is called Fable - not Fable 4 - and that it's being developed by UK-based Forza studio Playground Games.

There may be online elements like co-op functionality or limited, optional shared spaces," the publication notes. "But nothing to the extent that would justify classifying the game as an MMO."

This should come as a relief to those of us who were a little hesitant about the idea of missing out on a single-player Fable adventure. This also tracks with some of the earliest job listings for Fable, which were first shared by Playground Games way back in 2018. 

Red Dead Redemption Clown Protest

For months the Red Dead Redemption online community have been dressing up as clowns in protest Rockstar not providing any new content or communication to the community for nearly a year despite consumers paying for the service.

It’s been over a year since Rockstar has meaningfully update the open world MMO which has people feeling exasperated by content drought. Rather than complain about the situation the Cowboys of Red Dead Redemption stayed a protest. Dressing up like clowns was a creative way to protest. You don’t see any other gaming community that are very angry about the lack of content or the lack of communication and issues with the over all experience like Fallout and Anthem.  It’s better than others who hack Rockstar employees social media accounts or send them horrific and disturbing messages.

What does the clown protest mean?
It means players are calling themselves clowns for continuing to support this live service.

Months Later the Protest Are Paying Off
Rockstar went to their news wire to announce their next update. They acknowledge protest by players and said updates are coming for both GTA and Red Dead Redemption. For Red Dead Redemption specifically a large update is coming July 28, 2020 featuring the frontier pursuit that will introduce players to secrets about naturalism as part of an all new role plus a new outlaw pass plus tons of more features and bug fixes.

To be honest this cycle of protest and content drought will Not be over.  I hope for a compromise with a mix of single player dlc to expand on the story of other players in the gang and occasionally updates to the online side of things.  This will never happen bc its all about the money. Online multiplayer is cheaper to produce and a lot more profitable. Many gaming companies have given up on single player dlc or games with that feature as the focus like gears or war, halo or call of duty that give a few hours of single player content but push for the online multiplayer as the focus of the game.

All well think consumers got to stop living the past of good single player games and continue to let companies to dig in our pockets whenever they feel like it to
Get the most money from us for the least amount of
Effort or return.

Ubisoft Joins the List of Tech Companies Fostering Discrimination Culture

Well the tea has been spilled about Ubisoft discrimination practices against women and minorities for years with a total of over 150+ claims and equal employment opportunity violation cases to HR not being addressed and ignored despite the company taking money from investors and the government that enforces EEO. Not only have Ubisoft come under investigation for EEO violation with the threat of losing funding but the company has also been exposed for sexism/racist culture that has put a limit on development of games featuring women and minorities as leads bc the upper management and marketing do not believe either sales games.

Public reports revealed Ubisoft knew about bad behavior in the company for years and took little action until recently when the investigations went public bc that’s how these big corporations operate.  Big corporations do not care about the oppression or discrimination cases until the public finds out and then it’s panic mode to save their funding.

A whistleblower revealed Ubisoft mistreated women at the company and Ubisoft creative executives believed women don’t sell games due to market research. These guys didn’t make female focus games bc of who they are what they think.

Reports said Serge Hascott is leading the way to push content that did with less linear narratives and cutscenes. This push was systematic discrimination that impacted the development of three Assassin Creed games. 

1. Assassin Creed Syndicate 

Jacob and Evie Frye were suppose to have equal time in the story, but executives made Jacob the focus of the story and its marketing.

Assassins Creed Origins

The original plan was to kill Bayek off early in the game then his wife Aya would take over the story. In the end, that plan didn’t happen. After marketing and upper management direction, Aya‘s role was significantly reduced. This was very disappointing and bc Aya was a cool character with a compelling  character and potential. Aya was sidestepped so Bayek story came shine. 

Assassins Creed Odyssey 

This game is what really caused the community and whistleblowers and ethics committees to go into action. Kassandra was suppose to be the only lead of this game but the upper management and marketing team used their influence again. The idea to have Kassandra as the lead was rejected and the option of sibling choice made its way into the final game. The reasoning behind this choice is a troupe that male leads make more sales.  It’s easier to believe this when it’s more games out there that  have male leads. Even if you buy into all that conjecture, it doesn’t take into account games like Tomb Raider, Horizon Zero Dawn or Metroid Prime that have female leads and earned a lot of money for their companies.  

This only showed Ubisoft distant itself from the progressive elements they claim to have they didn’t have much faith in their creative teams. The last assassin creed games could have broke the trend of no female leads games, but they were literally not allowed to by upper management marketing which is awful.  This Only shows Ubisoft is another fake progressive company that lies about its diversity and progressive elements. How did they get away with this?

During a recent conference call Ubisoft executives with their investors, the CEO of Ubisoft was asked about how he is addressing the over 150+ Open discrimination cases. The CEO dodged the questions which lead me to believe 2 reactions to his dodge. 

1. Ubisoft CEO is an incompetent Leader 

2. Ubisoft CEO does not pay attention or care about his business. 

There are 100s of HR claims that are ignored with testimony so horrible the public needed to know.