Fable developers once tracked down and threatened a teenage troll

Fable developers once tracked down and threatened a teenage troll

By Emma Boyle

Lionhead Studios, best known for the Fable series, might not be creating games anymore but they’re still keeping us entertained with wild stories from when they were.

The most recent story has come from community manager Sam van Tilburgh, who revealed at a BAFTA function that he and his team tracked down a teenage “troll” who had obtained Fable development secrets and threatened to tell his mum what he was up to.

According to the BBC, van Tilburgh told the audience that back in 2003, before the studio had been sold to Microsoft, a group of trolls known as Kibitz “managed to get their hands on some screenshots” from the in-development Fable.

Troll hunting

He said that one of the screenshots they’d gotten a hold of depicted “the hero of Fable stabbing a little kid through the head which was “never meant to be released for obvious reasons”, as well as other materials “unannounced to this day.”

The group posted some of the images to Lionhead’s own forums, threatening the community team that they’d release them. Unfortunately for the trolls, the Lionhead staff had access to the IP address of the person who had uploaded them to the forum which …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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