Lady Evenstar Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Shame there's no way they both can lose. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 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. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morgoth Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 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! Rain makes everything better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syraxis Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 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. Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Oh? What banks was Herve able to sucker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oner Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Dunno, the ones run by really old people who don't play games? Giveaway list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DgyQFpOJvyNASt8A12ipyV_iwpLXg_yltGG5mffvSwo/edit?usp=sharing What is glass but tortured sand?Never forget! '12.01.13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Bethesda is a very smart company when it comes to business operations. Interplay is pretty much the exact opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 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". The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterfade Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 (edited) 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, 2009 by Masterfade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterfade Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILL THE ALMIGHTY Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 (edited) 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, 2009 by WILL THE ALMIGHTY "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Activision or EA would have given it to a developer, so that's really impossible to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILL THE ALMIGHTY Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Fallout would still be in the hands of the antichrist. "Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 Or at the very least, Fallout would have cooties. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entrerix Posted September 18, 2009 Share Posted September 18, 2009 LOL!!! Killing is kind of like playin' a basketball game. I am there. and the other player is there. and it's just the two of us. and I put the other player's body in my van. and I am the winner. - Nice Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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