Fallout MMO going to happen after all

[Spider]

Interplay is apparently not dead after all. They apparently have plans to start producing the Fallout MMO next year with a projected release in 2010. All this according to a SEC-filing.

 

Link (which in turn includes a link to the specific SEC-filing):

http://www.destructoid.com/fallout-mmo-int...es--28559.phtml

 

I'm too shocked to have anything more to add at this point.

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Finally I can experience my dream of being surround by Vault Dwellers telling me to 'stfu n00b'.

[karka]

It was obvious. Just visit their web site, and you'll see "Play Online Chess" link. Playing a Turn-Based game online... Yes, first steps for a Fallout MMO.

[Kaftan Barlast]

Interplay will never publish another game, this must be some kind of hoax.

[DemonKing]

I can't believe how blindly optimistic you guys are.

 

This is Herve and Interplay we're talking about - it's not like EA just announced it with a press release and screen shots.

 

There's more chance of my dead grandparents coming round for tea than this reaching fruition.

[roshan]

Herve is just spouting BS. I believe the SEC thing was just an attempt to con some foolish investors. It was reported at NMA etc a few weeks ago.

[Deraldin]

I can't believe how blindly optimistic you guys are.

 

This is Herve and Interplay we're talking about - it's not like EA just announced it with a press release and screen shots.

 

There's more chance of my dead grandparents coming round for tea than this reaching fruition.

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Is my sarcasm detector broken or is this a perfect example of Sarchasm?

[Tigranes]

Actually, when he said 'blindly optimistic' I thought he was saying we were too optimistic to hope that Interplay wouldn't release a MMO.

 

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[Deraldin]

Actually, when he said 'blindly optimistic' I thought he was saying we were too optimistic to hope that Interplay wouldn't release a MMO.

 

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That would work if he hadn't said "There's more chance of my dead grandparents coming round for tea than this reaching fruition."

[Sand]

As far as I am concerned Fallout is dead. Fallout ended with Fallout 2. All other fallout games that came after or will come after is just crap that is best ignored.

[Lare Kikkeli]

As far as I am concerned Fallout is dead.  Fallout ended with Fallout 2.  All other fallout games that came after or will come after is just crap that is best ignored.

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[Tigranes]

Wish you could say that about him, huh? "

[Pop]

I have no idea, with the massive debts that Interplay has incurred, how they could make this happen. If they do somehow, you know it's going to be total ****. These are the same guys that thought Brotherhood of Steel was a good idea.

[alanschu]

I have no idea, with the massive debts that Interplay has incurred, how they could make this happen. If they do somehow, you know it's going to be total ****. These are the same guys that thought Brotherhood of Steel was a good idea.

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Aren't they also the same people that thought Baldur's Gate, Fallout, and ROCK AND ROLL RACING were a good idea?

[jaguars4ever]

And don't forget Star Trek 25th anniversary and Judgment Rites!

 

Interplay in their prime were immense - no question about that. But past their peak they were simply awful. And now they're just a joke. A joke with rats. Rats living in Herve's pants.

[alanschu]

I won't dispute that they're a bit of a joke at the moment.

 

But that has more to do with the hideous collapse due to financial mismanagement and arrogance, rather than thinking Brotherhood of Steel was a good idea.

[Tigranes]

So you're saying Interplay continued to have good and accurate tastes in game development?

[alanschu]

No.

 

I'm saying that they're a joke because of hideous mismanagement of their financial assets (such as syphoning money out of the company for other interests), and that they (as far as I can tell) are a high risk investment. I can't imagine them having much operating capital at all.

 

And I consider them a joke because of this, not because they made some games I didn't like. I certainly don't consider EA to be a "joke," and I could question where their focus in game development is.

[Tigranes]

Fair point, alan.

 

... I have nothing more to say, really. I mean, Herve, we'll talk when you have 3D chess on the site. Don't you know that 3D is the future?!