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    Xav de Matos posted a new article, Bethesda settles with Interplay, MMO license is 'null and void'.

    A settlement has been reached in the case between ZeniMax Media subsidiary Bethesda Softworks and Interplay Entertainment surrounding the fate of an MMO set in the Fallout universe.
    Jan 09, 2012 2:30pm PST
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    Xav de Matos posted a new article, Bethesda settles with Interplay, MMO license is 'null and void'.

    A settlement has been reached in the case between ZeniMax Media subsidiary Bethesda Softworks and Interplay Entertainment surrounding the fate of an MMO set in the Fallout universe. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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      So WTF Interplay? Not only did they fail to meet the conditions of the license but they also sublicensed ... : sanchezThis person is cool!
      • The whole thing was basically a desperate Hail Mary on Interplay's part. That's how Bethesda ended up wi... : ArcanumThis person is cool!
    • Well that sucks but I guess they just didn't get rolling in time. : one random winner
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      Who wants a fucking fallout mmo anyway. Fallout and Elder Scrolls are the last good single player RPGS. : Wolfslice
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        Also, what developer and/or publisher wants to run an MMO these days? Making an MMO is not the "guarante... : the archvileThis person is cool!
        • I don't think it ever was guaranteed, people just looked at the WoW numbers and thought they could easily... : zehh
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        Fallout doesn't even make sense as a MMO. The world is supposed to be mostly empty. That doesn't work whe... : Mecha Tofu Pirate
        • It's sad to me that what you described is what "MMO" has come to mean. What a waste of a genre. : SockMonkehThis person is cool!
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          What to you want to bet that the Elder Scrolls Universe becomes an MMO before Fallout? : krazeeviking
          • I hope none of y'all wanted any Alchemy reagents, cause I would gather like it was my CLASS, much less my... : AxeMan808This person is cool!
          • It'd just be such a mammoth undertaking. I doubt we'd see it anytime soon. I mean, they'd have to staff v... : Yumcheese
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      So every FO game from now on is going to be a buggy piece of crap. Awesome. : Wuggyboobeaufuf
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        Hahaha. Because Interplay, who couldn't scrape up any money, would build a really stable bug free MMO. : kingdeporkThis person is cool!
        • More stable than any Bethesda game. : Wuggyboobeaufuf
      • Fallout3 at release was WAY less problematic than Fallout2 at release : FaykThis person is cool!
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      I hope Bethesda won't pull the games from GOG after 2013. : Mecha Tofu Pirate
      • Why? because you were going to buy them in January of 2014? : krazeeviking
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        I doubt there's any reason to - they own the rights, might as well let the occasional sale trickle your w... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
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          I seriously doubt they'd make more money selling physical copies of decade-old games than they do through... : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
          • Well there's got to be some reason that Interplay has bothered to repackage and resell these games retail... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
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      haha what a joke. Nice one interplay..hows a company that was bankrupt before going to make a Fallout MM... : scernos
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        They should sell it to Visceral who would do a damn better job in my opinion. Front pagers are some g... : SpaecKowThis person is cool!
        • Hey man, it's not like Bethesda Softworks made some of the most lauded games in the entire history of gam... : singlespace