Looks like online co-op WILL be available on launch day (October 21st) for
Fable II.
According to the official Lionhead Community website, the patch will load as soon as you connect to Live, assuming it passes certification. it is a good job by Lionhead to get this taken care of by launch.
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Remember a couple of days ago (or was it a week) where on a blog it was mentioned that Fable II would be shipping 'without' Online Co-op? And remember we said we were busting our balls to get it ready in time for a 'Day One' release? Well - news folks! It looks like we've done it...for all of you who are connected to Xbox Live, when starting up your copy of Fable II (on 21st October in USA, 24th October in Europe and 18th December in Japan). So all of you getting upset and all, you wouldn't even have noticed... Sort of. Well done to the team.
Taken into account we don't fail certification!