We know more curiosities about the closure by Microsoft of Lionhead Studios and the goodbye of Fable

We all know the news of the closure by Microsoft of Lionhead Studios, responsible for a masterpiece like Fable and what has caused this IP to go down in the memory drawer unless a dramatic turn of events remedies it.

A situation that in these years of crisis we have seen repeated many more times than desired, with closures, franchises that were going to wasteand above all, many employees and workers who saw their jobs disappearBut then there is the inside story, those data that come out after the fact and that we now know in the case of Lionhead Studios.

And it seems that, before its sale by Microsoft, potential buyers were interested in acquiring the study, on all because of the sales and growth potential that Fable had, as well as because of its pull among the player market.

These offers are also mandatory and are carried out in a consultation process, something similar to a public auction, which must necessarily be done and during which the company looks for an exit that allows it to avoid closing and remain open.

In this period and among those interested there were big names in the world of video games and above all a lot of money, but from Microsoft they adopted the position If it's not mine, it's nobody's. And it is that they only agreed to sell the company if the publishers agreed under contract to release new installments of Fable for Microsoft, so that the company could be sold, but not the known IP.

This fact caused the creators of Fable to refuse to sign this agreement and although from Redmond they could have managed to close a lucrative and interesting deal, they preferred to close Lionhead Studios before any other label could have an IP like Fable in their catalog in the future.

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A pity, because with this movement Fable will be diluted in the drawer of memories and the players will not have the opportunity to continue enjoying one of the best games on the market, the one that has stolen so many hours of sleep from many gamers."

Via | Bill Insider In VidaExtra | Microsoft officially shuts down Lionhead and Press Play and cancels Fable Legends