Lionhead Studios announced that Fable Legends is a free-to-play; in practice the developer explains that the game will contain a history divided into a number of different missions, but they will be joined by others with future update should be issued within a few months. The whole thing will be playable for free and there are no time limits, but the characters that you can use for free will be replaced periodically, as already happens in the free version of Killer Instinct; the difference is that here we do not have a free character only a week but four, so you can create diverse groups with our friends. If we decide to want to keep one in particular, we will have to pay it with the game currency earned in-game, or with real money.

The same will be for the "bad" characters of the game, an essential part of this asynchronous multiplayer game; even the villain will rotate every few weeks, and you can pay to unlock definitely one.

If we decide not to buy a particular character you're impersonating, when this will be removed from the free rotation we must hope that you come back to use it again: the character retains all the equipment, experience and skills acquired in earlier.

This means that all will be kept abreast of every character used: it will be for the player to decide whether to wait until these become free again or unlock them definitively so.

There will be, at least initially, about ten playable characters that will be available in rotation, in groups of four and mixed in different ways, every two weeks.

It is however an ongoing closed beta that should ensure developers to throw the game to the market without this has then bug problems, crash or otherwise; the intention of Lionhead is getting progressively more and more players to test the best of everything.

We are waiting for further information;  Fable Legends should be released by the end of this year. Following a video released at the time of the announcement that illustrates the novelty of today and shows some of the characters in the game.