Confirmed: Bethesda v. Interplay Settlement Has Occurred

[Spectacle]

Brofist this post if you voted for both in the poll! M:

 

[villain of the story]

That said even if Iply had gotten back the license like people wanted, do you really think they'd take the game and turn it back into a turn based or even a real time with pause game? Not with all these new fans bitching and moaning about 'ruining' their classic franchise. Fallout as an FPS is here to stay.

Fuck everyone.

With the IP in Bethesda's hands, Fallout's fate is sealed as a TES FPS and FNV is as good as it gets in this state. I doubt anything even remotely similar will ever happen again. Now, if Herve got the license back, it could be a lollercoaster. He might have waken up one day and up and decide to make a Fallout: Wasteland Racer or Fallout: Wasteland Tycoon. On the other hand, Herve commissioning Obsidian for another Fallout title would also be a lot more probable than Bethesda doing it a second time.

 

[kris]

Who can do less harm to the IP out of the two? Discuss.

That would be Interplay. They don't really make anything which brings minimum harm.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Obsidian will fix it.

Just as they always do.

edit: As for the poll, well, they are both very handsome men. Mediterranean vs bosmer.

 

[mondblut]

My prediction: Beth finally bought out the MMO rights from Herve for a fuckton of moneys, just what Herve wanted in the first place since he ended up being unable to do shit with the MMO license. He basically held the MMO license hostage while Bethsoft wept over all the unexisting cash they would have made if they did a Fallout MMO. They wanted to wrestle it out for free, but the legal force was strong in this one.

IP squatting at its best

As for older Fallout titles, your guess is as good as mine. I'd imagine Herve would be happy to offload the rights to Bethsoft for a lump sum rather than to keep selling them one copy at a time, but Bethsoft hardly needed them. So I guess they stay at IPLY unless Herve insisted in including them into the bargain.

Oh, and neither is a retard. Herve shown himself a genius scammer who just earned millions literally out of nothing. Hell, he might have schemed it all from day 1, expecting Beth to propel the franchise to AAA fame while hoarding the rights for a MMO which doubled in value every week. Pure brilliance. As for Bethsoft, they already made millions from F3, and will make millions more now that they can make a MMO. The only retard is the customer who buys from Bethesda

 

[Jaesun]

The Fallout series is dead. So I don't give a shit to be honest.

 

[Ermm]

Oh, and neither is a retard. Herve shown himself a genius scammer who just earned millions literally out of nothing. Hell, he might have schemed it all from day 1, expecting Beth to propel the franchise to AAA fame while hoarding the rights for a MMO which doubled in value every week. Pure brilliance. As for Bethsoft, they already made millions from F3, and will make millions more now that they can make a MMO. The only retard is the customer who buys from Bethesda

That's a nice explanation, except that there is not an official word yet.

 

[mondblut]

Well, that's a most likely outcome of events. Herve isn't making a Fallout MMO, has no productive capacity to make it, and his sole interest lies in selling it out as high as possible. Bethesda's interest lies in acquiring the MMO, for as low as possible, initially for free, which obviously failed. So the thing they are really "settling" now is bargaining over a final price.

 

[Menckenstein]

The best outcome would be if Interplay retained the ownership of the FO IP but Bethesda was granted first dibs on developing any FO titles with profit sharing. Having Interplay stamped on every FO game they made with Herve as final oversight would be hilarious.