Interplay Claims It Could Take Back Fallout

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I see a lot of people defending Interplay here. Let's look at facts. First off, Interplay has failed for years to bring out new Fallout. Prior to Bethesda, Interplay wanted to bring out Fallout 3 or the Van Buren Project. That died in the water. Then the franchise sat dead for years until Bethesda came along. When Bethesda purchased the franchise IP, Interplay maintained that they wanted to to create Fallout Online. This was in 2007. Now, it's 2011 and we still have no fallout Online. I'm seeing a pattern here with Interplay and it just isn't with the fallout franchise. back in the day, Interplay was notorious for long development times, cancelled projects and generally screwing over gamers. If any of us want to ever see a good future for the Fallout Franchise, Interplay needs to lose this case or we can kiss Fallout goodbye, again. I'm sure most of you original fallout fans out there remember when it was announced that Van Buren was cancelled. Interplay was on the shit list then. And in regards to Interplay being preyed upon, I think Bethesda was more than patient with Interplay. Giving a company two years to secure pre-production assets and funding, especially when the SEC fillings were already approved, is very generous according to documentation, as long as they were in pre-production, which is usually concept stuff, they would then have 4 years until Fallout Online needed to be in beta. Guess what, like Interplay is notorious for doing, they weren't as far along as they should have been. If we leave it to Interplay. it will be 2282 before the MMORPG is read to roll out It goes to show you that Interplay says they want to continue the fallout property but can't do it financially and they don't have the same ethic to their fans like Bethesda does. And yes, I get from some of these comments that people are still pinning over the original Fallout isometric perspective. I feel more connected with the Fallout characters now than I did before while playing 1 and 2 and I played Fallout 1 when it first came out. I think Bethesda did a hell of a job bringing the franchise to the next generation. All things considered, I think looking at Interplay's history as a company will tell you what we can expect from them if they get the rights back. I guarantee if they get the rights back, Fallout will die once again. They don't have the long term commitment to the franchise that Bethesda and Obsidian can bring.

 

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Bethesda Softworks didn't make Fallout 3, Morrowind, Oblivion - they haven't made a single game.

Let me explain.

Bethesda Softworks, often abbreviated to BethSoft, are the publishers of games. They have published all sorts of things, like Wet and Brink.

Bethesda Game Studios are completely different.

They are a company that makes the games - the TES series, and Fallout 3. The only thing any employee who specifically works at BGS has to do with BethSoft is that all their games are published by BethSoft.

Don't lose your faith in BGS because of BethSoft's mistakes.

Well put. This thread seems to be just arguing about which developer made better games. I didn't run into the Fallout series until Fallout3, so I'm not experienced to say who made a better game.

But that's not really the point anyways. It's a legal battle about their contract, one that we don't (as far as I can tell) know enough about to start pointing fingers.