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I wrote a guest post for Kate’s blog! It was a lot of fun to write, and it was based on a game I spent a lot of time playing lately.

The purpose of this post is to document the link and the screenshots above.

Fable III was released for Windows not long ago, after a long delay from the original promised date. Fable III was promised for Windows as a renewed commitment to PC gaming by Microsoft. Microsoft had a heavy hand into the development making Fable III highly depend upon its Windows Live Marketplace platform and active internet connections.

Installing this game is a nightmare. It seemed to be and endless loop of errors telling me that I need to exit the game to install the required update then it would tell me to open the game to login. It repeated constantly. I had to recreate, recreate, recreate profiles. It took me over an hour to install the game. Let alone, at first, I had to manually install the autorun, as the autorun kept getting stuck on trying to ‘configure’ Windows 7 for it. Microsoft and Lionhead Studios did a horrible job with this. Also, it seems the DRM is super tight and there is a live software that is scanning to make sure you’re not stealing it. It hurts!

Read the full post at Kate’s blog.

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