It's unfortunate, most of the hype for the game this time is coming from the gaming press not Molyneux.

Still, if even a few little things reviewers expected aren't in there they will screw the score over, even if the title is brilliant.

I'm not actually expecting a AAA score.

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=44583

Whilst "couch co-op" was unvieled ages ago, online co-op was only confirmed at E3.  Are you seriously suggesting that this amounts to the same sort of years-long hype received for features in Fable, Haze and Lair that were either non-existant or shit?

The power of the PC.

Causing double-posts everywhere since 1994.

Wow, nice spin there. You're defending the entire game by telling me it has had good previews and I'm telling you that a whole lot of other games have had similar previews. I don't belive I mentioned anything about preview of the features, but maybe your intelligence is so far beyond me that you can see more in between the lines than what I think is there....

When the feature was announced doesn't matter in the least bit. It was announced and it will not be present. It was then delayed but a day one patch and it's no longer even that. Molyneux should have just came out and delayed it. Word on the street is that the delaying when needed is a sign of good developers.

Ok I see where you are coming from now.  I thought you were trying to imply the game would be like Lair or Haze quality-wise.  I agree that the delay of online co-op is definitely bad (although it wont effect me).  But I am betting the lack of a game delay has more to do with Microsoft than with Lionhead......

I'd be willing to buy that Microsoft screwed over the studio, but going by Molyneux' general behavior I'd think that he may have either implied or outright added a line which said that he wished to delay the game but couldn't (due to some restriction which would have nothing to do with M$, of course).

I know I am gonna hate having to download that little patch come day one. Oh well.

Maybe you missed something... It's no longer day one. Or at least that's what they said.

Really?  Link?

Here we go, you would have been able to learn of this and avoiding spouting failed snide remarks if you had just read the OP a little more carefully:

http://kotaku.com/5055621/fable-ii-online-co+op-so-not-making-launch-date