Fable Legends Director Doesn’t Know if the Game is Always-Online

Chatting with Official Xbox Magazine at Gamescom, Fable Legends game director David Eckelberry confessed that, at the moment, he doesn’t know whether the online-focused Fable Legends will require the player to be connected to access the single-player portions of the title. Here’s the relevant quote:

“I don’t know the answer to that,” Eckelberry confessed to us in a Gamescom interview, but added: “The fact that we want to do a lot of things, a lot of systems on a servers, characters on a server…If it’s online we can monitor you and make sure you don’t edit your character file, or do something nasty there.

“Because if you’re playing single player, all your accomplishments in the game are going to eventually matter if you’re playing against a villain player, or alongside other heroes,” he went on. “If you’ve somehow cheated your way to victory – so that’s a concern for us.

“If you’re somehow cheating, online is a way for us to track it, because your performance can be measured in the Xbox Live cloud.”

Thanks, VG247.