Xbox Live Deal of the Week: Fable 2's Knothole Island [update]
by David Hinkle 
{ Jun 29th 2009 at 11:50AM } 
For all of you wannabe Meteorologists out there, the problematic weather of Fable 2's Knothole Island awaits you and all of your cunning. The Lionhead community blog reveals the DLC will be discounted up until July 5. Normally 800
, the DLC will receive a price cut of 30%, knocking it down to a more manageable 560. You already know our thoughts on the add-on, so we suggest you stock up on mainland items and head to Knothole Island for some rare goodies in the Box of Secrets. And, you know, tackle a dungeon or three.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
BONSOIR!!! @ Jun 29th 2009 11:56AM
...How is this even remotely related to the story?
Snowblind @ Jun 29th 2009 11:58AM
This is a more reasonable price for the content, this is what it should have been to begin with. The plot isn't particularly interesting, it'll only take you a couple of hours to get through, but it's easily worth the 500 points for the items you get, some of them are really cool.
Courtney @ Jun 29th 2009 11:58AM
Dangit, I bought this a few weeks ago and haven't even got into it yet (got distracted by other games). Should have waited.
MystileArmor @ Jun 29th 2009 12:01PM
Good news since I have a couple of spare MS points and I actually bought See The Future, but not Knothole Island. i might just pick this up.
Hopefully this will be a trend in the good deals, since alot of them have been shitty.
Captain Planet @ Jun 29th 2009 12:03PM
Unrelated post #2:
Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.
Iran began recounting some of the votes cast in its disputed presidential election Monday in an apparent attempt to placate opposition protesters, and the government dismissed the idea of downgrading relations with Britain despite accusing that country of stirring up unrest.
The regime's standoff with the West over its crackdown on demonstrators sharply escalated Sunday. Britain denounced the detention of nine local employees of its embassy in Tehran, and the European Union condemned what it called Iranian "harassment and intimidation."
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi told a news conference broadcast on state television Monday that five of the Iranian embassy staffers had been released and the remaining four were being interrogated.
Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseini Ejehi claimed he had videotape showing some of the employees mingling with protesters, and said the fate of those who remain in custody now rests with Iran's judiciary, which is tightly controlled by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But Qashqavi played down the dispute, saying Iranian officials were in written and verbal contact with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who called the allegations "wholly without foundation."
"Reduction of diplomatic ties is not on our agenda for any country, including Britain," Qashqavi said.
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Jun 29th 2009 12:04PM
Is this a Gold only Discount????
Rhamsey @ Jun 29th 2009 12:12PM
im pretty sure the deals of the week always are.
Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Jun 29th 2009 12:45PM
gat dammit.....
Rick Mesler @ Jun 29th 2009 2:31PM
@Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO
http://www.buy.com/prod/xbox-live-12-month-gold-subscription-card/q/loc/108/211086907.html?adid=17070&dcaid=17070
Get yer butt over to this site my friend and get gold...
$33.00
Courtney @ Jun 29th 2009 12:05PM
Griffin handles the hardware sales post and has been traveling for an assortment of things during the summer, hence both the hardware sales and webcomic wrapup have fallen by the wayside some weeks.
flameofdoom666 @ Jun 29th 2009 12:06PM
The link posted was for See The Future, and I accidentally bought it. Grr...
incubeezer @ Jun 29th 2009 12:15PM
Yeah I almost bought it... maybe the poster should change that...?
MarkHawk @ Jun 29th 2009 12:16PM
Thanks for the Heads up. Sorry for your loss of points :(
MystileArmor @ Jun 29th 2009 12:19PM
7 bucks for a good piece of DLC isn't too bad. The colloseum is very enjoyable, especially with a friend.
flameofdoom666 @ Jun 29th 2009 12:44PM
I am highly annoyed though. I was waiting for this DLC for over a month (it was revealed in the xbox magazine). I feel like Joystiq screwed me >.<
I am highly disappointed
I spent 1120 points instead of 560...
No Kills @ Jul 1st 2009 4:30AM
I'm with you there bro.
I saw this news, ran to my xbox, saw the 560 price, flipped shoes over and bought the wrong dlc.
LESSON LEARNED. read before buying
Rhamsey @ Jun 29th 2009 12:11PM
ill just wait for the game of the year edition to come out.
tabicat @ Jun 29th 2009 12:14PM
Are you sure there will be one? There's a GOTY edition of Fallout 3 coming in October, but I haven't heard anything about Fable 2.
MarkHawk @ Jun 29th 2009 12:17PM
I already have the game... but there was a GOTY edition for the original... it was on PC though right?
Rhamsey @ Jun 29th 2009 12:22PM
reply fail, my post is below...
Elranzer @ Jun 29th 2009 12:18PM
I liked this quest, but it was too expensive for the add-on. Same thing with the second one. It made the game essentially cost $80.
I've completed the add-on quests in about an hour each (it doesn't help that I already had an end-game level character ready to smash through any "challenges" the add-on areas brought on).
Oneiroi @ Jun 29th 2009 12:18PM
Since this happened to me, I want to be the first one to say it:
"I just bought this last week! ARGHGhghhgh!"
incubeezer @ Jun 29th 2009 12:21PM
Courtney
Courtney @ Jun 29th 2009 11:58AM
Dangit, I bought this a few weeks ago and haven't even got into it yet (got distracted by other games). Should have waited.
You mean second one to say it.
fwacce @ Jun 29th 2009 12:18PM
It's not related to this story. However, since joystiq doesn't have a forum, this was the only option. I understand if you think it doesn't belong here, but some members only visit this site for information. I'm just providing that information for them. That's all.
And now back to your regularly scheduled blog post.
Tiptup300 @ Jun 29th 2009 12:20PM
Seriously, I don't think ANYONE actually cares about those numbers. Why are you bringing it here?
Rhamsey @ Jun 29th 2009 12:21PM
well, with all of the awards it one, i would assume it would have one, and if not, then at least a platinum hits should be coming soon, since its already been bundled with a 360 and its price is 30 bucks. so there is a chance that it will be released with dlc. not 100%, but a high one.
max stubbs @ Jun 29th 2009 12:58PM
One and won are different words my friend.
Oneiroi @ Jun 29th 2009 12:24PM
Sadness! I failed at the comment even!
Drew @ Jun 29th 2009 12:38PM
Amen, Tip.
JOYSTIQ OVERLORDS!!!
We request that you cease the hardware sales updates, in Japan at least. Its a bore to read, leads to flame wars, and I'm sure must be a waste of your server space, what with your witty references abound. Just throw in sales figures when relevant to an article; theres no real need to have an article about them. I'll probably get downvoted for questioning you though. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!!!
Captain Planet @ Jun 29th 2009 12:44PM
Unrelated post #3:
Monica Conyers, the chairwoman of the Detroit City Council and wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), pleaded guilty Friday to federal bribery charges, the latest blow to a city still reeling from the collapse of the U.S. auto industry and the jailing of its former mayor.
Monica Conyers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with a city sludge-hauling scandal. As a member of the Detroit City Council in 2007, Conyers cast the deciding vote in favor of awarding a $1.2 billion contract to Synagro Technologies Inc.
Monica Conyers’s attorney said Friday that she would be sentenced to between 30 and 37 months in federal prison.
John Conyers, who did not attend his wife’s court session, declined to say anything to Capitol Hill reporters about his wife’s guilty plea, but his office later released a statement on the case.
“This has been a trying time for the Conyers family and, with hope and prayer, they will make it through this as a family,” the statement said. “Public officials must expect to be held to the highest ethical and legal standards. With this in mind, Mr. Conyers wants to work towards helping his family and city recover from this serious matter.”
Terrence Berg, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, whose office has conducted a two-year investigation of the Detroit City Council, said no other council member will be charged in the Synagro case, and added “that the evidence offered no suggestion that United States Representative John Conyers, Ms. Conyers’ husband, had any knowledge or role in Ms. Conyers’ illegal conduct, nor did the congressman attempt to influence this investigation in any way.”
Monica Conyers initially opposed the Synagro contract with the city but later reversed her position and cast the critical vote approving it. Her reversal caused uproar inside the city council, and federal investigators soon began looking into allegations of payoffs surrounding her vote.
According to Monica Conyers’s plea agreement with the Justice Department, “During the summer and winter of 2007, both before and after her vote, defendant received cash payments … from an individual sent by Rayford Jackson, a paid consultant for Synagro.”
Jackson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery 10 days ago, leading to heavy speculation in Detroit political circles that Monica Conyers would soon accept a plea deal of her own.
Jackson’s payments to Monica Conyers totaled at least $6,000, according to news reports.
Monica Conyers, 44, was elected to the city council in January 2005, and in September 2008, she was named the council’s interim president.
Her tenure has been marred by controversy and complaints about her personal behavior. Last year, in a dispute during official council proceedings, Conyers called then-council President Ken Cockrel “Shrek.”
Earlier this year, Councilman Kwame Kenyatta accused Conyers of making fun of his poor hearing and lack of a college degree in a confrontation outside his office. Kenyatta also said Conyers had started rumors about him having cancer.
Monica Conyers also came under fire after the city’s pension board said she owed the city $5,600 in unpaid travel advances from last year.
With her guilty plea today, Monica Conyers joins former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in the ranks of now disgraced Motor City politicians.
Following a long, winding investigation that convulsed city politics, Kilpatrick, son of Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), pleaded guilty last year to obstruction of justice charges, resigned from office and served more than three months in jail.
The House ethics committee announced on Wednesday that Carolyn Kilpatrick would be among the five lawmakers that it would investigate as part of its probe into who paid for Caribbean trips in 2007 and 2008.
SecretAgentHam @ Jun 29th 2009 12:45PM
purchase see the future... its a nice price for such a great quality DLC.
you will not regret it!
flameofdoom666 @ Jun 29th 2009 12:50PM
Unfortunately, See The Future is always 560 points. Knothole Island is on sale for 560 points, and Joystiq posted the wrong link.
SecretAgentHam @ Jun 29th 2009 1:40PM
i know that is its normal price, i purchased it for that price the day it was released.
i guess what i'm trying to say is pick up both!
and for those who accidentally purchased the wrong DLC, dont fret! you wont regret this accidental blind buy.
flameofdoom666 @ Jun 29th 2009 12:47PM
David Hinkle,
See The Future (the DLC you linked us too, and made me wrongly purchase) is always 560 points.
Knothole Island is usually 800 points, and it is this week only, 560 points.
MystileArmor @ Jun 29th 2009 12:50PM
Hey, he didn't make you wrongly purchase anything. The faulty link isn't his fault, it's a fuckup by MS. And besides, you're the idiot that didn't read the description and bought it.
flameofdoom666 @ Jun 29th 2009 12:52PM
Um, no. The wrong link was posted, and I saw it was Fable 2 DLC for 560. I didn't think that I had to inspect every aspect.
flameofdoom666 @ Jun 29th 2009 1:01PM
Plus, how is it a Microsoft mistake? See The Future is always 560.
Knothole island usually 800 points, but it is on sale for 560 this week. The discounted Knothole island IS on the marketplace, and the WRONG link was posted.
Glitch W @ Jun 29th 2009 1:06PM
Did he change the link because when I click it it brings me to the page with all of the DLC for Fable II, including Knothole Island and See the Future.
flameofdoom666 @ Jun 29th 2009 1:08PM
Yea he did. It was a direct link to See The Future before.
MystileArmor @ Jun 29th 2009 1:10PM
Well, before they updated it, it was the right link, just forwarded to the wrong DLC. Maybe it's fixed now, but it wasn't when you bought that.
If you're really that frugal about 7 bucks, well.. I'd be more then happy to find the nearest soup kitchen for you, if you'd like?
Professor Lario @ Jun 29th 2009 1:51PM
O Noez! Teh interwebs made mae do eet!
Quit complaining and just enjoy what you bought.
Anthony M. @ Jun 29th 2009 1:53PM
Blaming him for not realizing what you were doing makes you a tool.
renegade11x @ Jun 29th 2009 12:50PM
OMG! I'm so happy, I was just about to buy this yesterday, but I thought it would be best to wait to see if there's gonna be an XBL Deal of the Week later on in the summer! Looks like I didn't have to wait long. This is the second Deal of the Week in a row that I will purchase!
Access Granted @ Jun 29th 2009 1:08PM
I think I will buy this before the price goes back up! :)
nutman @ Jun 29th 2009 1:17PM
See the Future is also 560 points right now!
flameofdoom666 @ Jun 29th 2009 1:51PM
It always is
Anthony M. @ Jun 29th 2009 1:56PM
I've actually JUST started playing Fable II, the only reason I purchased it was because my sister asked for it.
Should I download this content now while it's on sale even though I've barely started? Will it let me access it now or later when I'm assuming you're "supposed" to be able to?
JBabey @ Jun 29th 2009 2:18PM
it appears to ONLY be for see the future, knothole is still 800 pts
Anthony M. @ Jun 29th 2009 2:21PM
You have to log into your xbox live (Read: Gold) account. I noticed the same thing, logged in, and the price changed.
Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ Jun 29th 2009 4:44PM
fwacce nobody gives a sh*t,only fanboys give a sh*t about hardware sales.Go back to gamespot n00bcake.