Interplay Calls Bethesda's Fallout Claim "Absurd"
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but really guys dont troll til the end then depending on what happens to the case might deserve trolling... i dont mean offence but their just defending their franchise is all
im not surprised... i really never liked bethesda anyway, ever since they completely ignored me when i had problems with fallout's bugs. bastards
I dunno, I'd play a Fallout-based poker game if it was like Telltale's Poker Night at the Inventory. They might have stumbled into gold here.
Interplay releasing a poorly funded, partially redacted, probable failure does constitute a clear and present danger to the intellectual property Bethesda has nurtured into a full-blown blockbuster.
The only reason interplay hasn't lost their rights to the franchise already is that they were able to convince the courts that a few mock up drawings constitute real progress on the MMO.
Interplay made some great games with fallout-- well, two great games-- and during their descent into financial apocalypse they attempted a Jay Leno style waiting-in-the-wings approach to get out a fallout MMO. Interplay dropping out of the game would actually give bethesda the opportunity to develop the MMO themselves, should they so desire. Instead, my prediction is that interplay will continue to hold the rights, and trickle along a few images periodically, going the route of Duke Nukem Forever. I also predict that after 10 years bethesda will acquire the material, and revive the project from the brink of oblivion. <-- pun
The only reason interplay hasn't lost their rights to the franchise already is that they were able to convince the courts that a few mock up drawings constitute real progress on the MMO.
Interplay made some great games with fallout-- well, two great games-- and during their descent into financial apocalypse they attempted a Jay Leno style waiting-in-the-wings approach to get out a fallout MMO. Interplay dropping out of the game would actually give bethesda the opportunity to develop the MMO themselves, should they so desire. Instead, my prediction is that interplay will continue to hold the rights, and trickle along a few images periodically, going the route of Duke Nukem Forever. I also predict that after 10 years bethesda will acquire the material, and revive the project from the brink of oblivion. <-- pun
Interplay is both a publisher and a developer.Ultratwinkie said:
They sold the IP but licensed back the rights to develop and publish the MMO. They actually offered to sell the MMO rights to Bethesda too, but Bethesda declined, because that would cost them extra. So now they're trying to get these rights for free by claiming that all Interplay had rights to use was just the title, which is ridiculous.mikozero said:can't really make a call on this without seeing lots of boring legal paper.
as much i'd like to see a Fallout MMO (as long as it wasn't too populated) if Interplay sold the IP to Bethesda (which afaik they did) then they sold the IP to Bethesda.
you can't sell an IP to someone and then use the same IP to make another product regardless.
I'd be inclined to agree with all the Bethesda hate if Interplay hadn't fucked Black Isle Studios over by taking all of their funding and making a crappy Fallout spinoff that bombed with it. Sorry guys but in Bethesda's hands is where Fallout seems best.
Correction, Black Isle made two great Fallout Games. And many other great games. Interplay fucked them over by taking their funding and using it to make Fallout Brotherhood of Steel, which was a commercial and critical failure. Most of the Black Isle guys became Obsidian, which just made New Vegas.thiosk said:
So then Interplay just goes ahead. Bethesda can scream all it wants. Its based on the world that was established by the first games. Even if the control system is similar, which to the lawyers would be another entire year of court room sessions. Interplay can always point to the first games in which Bethesda based the current Fallouts. Its sort of a non-issue.Andy Chalk said:
