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The Bethesda Blog offers details on recent indications that a settlement is at hand in the legal battle between Bethesda Softworks and Interplay over rights to make an MMORPG based on the Fallout franchise. According to this, Bethesda will pay Interplay $2 million, and Interplay no longer owns any Fallout rights aside from two more years of selling their three previous Fallout games: Under the terms of the settlement, the license granted to Interplay to develop the Fallout MMO is null and void, and all rights granted to Interplay to develop a Fallout MMO revert back to Bethesda, effective immediately. Interplay has no ongoing right to use the Fallout brand or any Fallout intellectual property for any game development. ZeniMax will pay Interplay $2 million as consideration in the settlement, each party will bear its own costs of the litigation, and Bethesda will continue to own all Fallout intellectual property rights. Interplay will be permitted to continue to sell the original Fallout ®Tactics, Fallout® and Fallout® 2 PC games through December 2013, after which time all rights to market those games revert to and become the sole property of Bethesda. Under the original agreement pursuant to which Bethesda had acquired the Fallout property, Interplay was granted certain merchandising rights to sell those original Fallout games, but those merchandising rights will now expire on December 31, 2013.
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Re: Bethesda Buys Fallout MMOG Rights |
Jan 10, 2012, 17:17 |
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Cutter wrote on Jan 10, 2012, 00:59:
RollinThundr wrote on Jan 10, 2012, 00:15:
Cutter wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 23:55:
^Drag0n^ wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 22:59:
Dude, I'll white night any damn company that supports the modding community the way Bethesda does.
Never understood all the hate these guys get from some folks.
^D^
Enh, not so much. It's not like Bethsoft does this because they're pro-mod so much as they're cheap and it's much easier to get PC gamers to fix their PC games for them.
Yeah because they really need to even include mod tools at all. Isn't there some GW2 fansite that's missing you right now?
I dunno, isn't there some tin-foil hat wearing, Tea-party/Faux-News event you should be at right now? I mean this all just some vast left-wing conspiracy put forth by the liberal media anyway, right?
And no, I stand by my assertion that Bethsoft does this more for financial reasons than any sense of supporting PC gamers. If that were the case they'd make good ports in the first place.
And I'm the one wearing a tin foil hat. How many campaign promises has Obama kept? Gitmo still open, transparent presidency, working with the Republicans rather than blame them for everything, heck he's still blaming Bush 3+ years into his term. His international apologize for America tour, etc etc Faux indeed. Yes we can has turned into I'm going to do what I want the US Taxpayers can go fuck themselves.
Yes the only reason Bethsoft has mod tools is because they're lazy yep! Gods Cutter I thought you were just a troll before, but now I realize not only are you a troll but your a fucking idiot to boot  |
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