Today at the Game Developers Convention, developer Peter Molyneux announced some new details about Lionhead Studios highly anticipated sequal, Fable 2. Molyneux explained that players will be able to get a head start making money for Fable 2 before the game is even launched. Lionhead Studios has plans to release an XBLA game that provides you with a few different gambling opportunities to make you some gold. When the actual game launches, you’ll be able to import your money over to the game so you don’t start out poor.

Molyneux also announce true co-op play in the Fable sequel, where you and a friend can connect to either one of your worlds and explore it together. Your character keeps all the experience, items, and money that you have gained while adventuring in your friends world as well. This makes me wonder if your “friend” would be able to steal items that only drop once in your game. That would be awful.

But that wasn’t all. Molyneux delved deeper into why the money making mini-game would be released prior to the launch of Fable 2. Apparently Lionhead Studios decided that wolves shouldn’t drop swords when killed, nor should they drop gold. That means your going to have to earn your money the hard way: stealing it from your friends.

Source: Kotaku