Hardly surprising though, that people take the opportunity to whine about the big bad Bethesda.

I said the constant suing is sickening, which is hardly whining.

 

I'm not aware of Bethesda having a history has a particularly litigious company. Interplay on the other hand ... I think you need to consider whose pattern these lawsuits fit into.

Shame there's no way they both can lose.

Interplay kept the MMO right under the condition they release an MMO until sometime 2010. Beth started suing them this April, they hardly had it coming yet.

Interplay kept the MMO right under the condition they release an MMO until sometime 2010. Beth started suing them this April, they hardly had it coming yet.

 

MMO's take years to develop, so they should have been able to show some sort of progress by now. According to the lawsuit Interplay has been twiddling their thumbs for awhile, which isn't hard to believe at all.

It was quite a dumb idea from Interplay to start with a MMO to begin with. I mean a company on the brink of destruction, and they're gonna make a MMO. The most expensive genre I could think of.

 

Herve really is a bad loser!

Interplay kept the MMO right under the condition they release an MMO until sometime 2010. Beth started suing them this April, they hardly had it coming yet.

 

They had until April 09 to secure funding for an MMO which they failed to do.

Interplay kept the MMO right under the condition they release an MMO until sometime 2010. Beth started suing them this April, they hardly had it coming yet.

They had until April 09 to secure funding for an MMO which they failed to do.

Nope, they loaned from banks a lot.

Oh? What banks was Herve able to sucker?

Dunno, the ones run by really old people who don't play games?

I'm not even thinking of Herve as a failed game developer.

 

 

The financial situation of Interplay surely must scream "High Risk."

 

 

Even if they secured funding, I'm sure Bethesda is looking at it from a "what you have isn't good enough" perspective.

Bethesda is a very smart company when it comes to business operations. Interplay is pretty much the exact opposite.

The best thing Interplay can do know is correcting their horrendous mistake by adding FO:BOS to the trilogy & renaming it to "Fallout: Ultimate Collection".

I was reading GameSpot and discovered there's a company called Besthesda Game Studios who sells Fallout 3 and related products. This is outrageous. Bethesda should hunt down this Besthesda company and sue them.

 

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/company/inde...ted-companies;1

Edited September 17, 200916 yr by Masterfade

I'm not aware of Bethesda having a history has a particularly litigious company. Interplay on the other hand ... I think you need to consider whose pattern these lawsuits fit into.

I haven't followed Beth's history, but I know they've previously sued to kill the P&P version of Fallout (authorised by iply prior to selling the IP to Zenimax), threatened to sue replacement docs for carrying their games' manuals and threatened abandonware sites for carrying their old games. Not that they aren't necessarily justified- the replacement docs and abandonware ones are certainly well within their rights- but they are pretty litigious for their size.

I'm not aware of Bethesda having a history has a particularly litigious company. Interplay on the other hand ... I think you need to consider whose pattern these lawsuits fit into.

I haven't followed Beth's history, but I know they've previously sued to kill the P&P version of Fallout (authorised by iply prior to selling the IP to Zenimax), threatened to sue replacement docs for carrying their games' manuals and threatened abandonware sites for carrying their old games. Not that they aren't necessarily justified- the replacement docs and abandonware ones are certainly well within their rights- but they are pretty litigious for their size.

 

I don't think Beth actually sued Glutton Creeper for the Fallout PnP. They just sent some cease and desist papers and GC gave in.

You have to keep in mind that Interplay is trying hard to milk every last dime out of the Fallout license, rather than just handing over the IP to Bethesda for a reasonable price. Beth paid a lot to get Fallout 3 originally, and then they did all the work to revive the franchise. I know a lot of folks aren't happy with Bethesda having the rights to Fallout, but I'd say Interplay has been a much worse steward of the Fallout universe.

It was either Bethesda or Activision or EA who would have gotten the Fallout IP in the end. Which one do you prefer?

Edited September 18, 200916 yr by WILL THE ALMIGHTY

Activision or EA would have given it to a developer, so that's really impossible to say.

Fallout would still be in the hands of the antichrist.

Or at the very least, Fallout would have cooties.

LOL!!!