There are two reasons, really. The first reason is that I had a look at how many active Live users there are - I don't know the exact number but it's 10 million or something like that - and compared to the number of people that have bought Fable II, about three million, and there are a big divide.
so I should say that we should give away the very first 45 minutes of
the game, completely free, and just before you get to Browerstone up comes this message saying, 'If you want to continue playing this game press this button, but if you want to buy the rest of the game, press this'.
"comes this message" は、副詞句 Before you〜 のために倒置文になっている。
There are a lot of policy decisions to go through, and it's really great to have been through that process already and not be burdened with that for forthcoming titles without saying anything particular..
forthcoming ... これからの
without saying anything particular ... 特に言うまでもなく
be burdened with〜 ... 〜に悩まされる
The fascinating thing is that he wrote them as episodes in such a way that there would be cliffhungers so peole would go out to buy the next episode, but if you've got the whole book it doesn't feel them episodic.