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37. Re: Bethesda Buys Fallout MMOG Rights Jan 10, 2012, 06:32 Dev
 
Creston wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 22:17:
Good. Interplay, take your 2 million bucks, buy a shitload of hookers and blow, then go away and die. Bye!
Cutter wrote on Jan 9, 2012, 19:53:
Hah! Called it! I knew it was going to be less than 5 mil. I reckoned somewhere around the 2-3 million mark. So Herve and his bro get a mil each and can now fuckoff die and never darken gaming's doorway again.

I agree. They would have NEVER succeeded in court proving they had full time development with $1 million spent in 4 years on fallout MMO. And there was never any sign of the $30 million in funds they were supposed to have according to contract either. It would have reverted to beth anyway after a long court battle. But that court battle could have taken years, years in which interplay had to pay expensive lawyers. Interplay made the smart move settling, and Beth made the smart move in paying the $2 million (a small amount at this point, and to avoid all that time wasted).

If interplay honestly thought they could have won, they would have been stupid not to fight it all the way. I'm actually a little surprised that they gave up the original fallout rights. If you look at interplay's financials, thats pretty much the only area they still bring in money from, older titles. I think that indicates they were after a settlement all along from the day they started this legal stuff and were willing to give up anything to get a small cash payout.

I wonder if interplay will be holding firesales on steam for fallout "trilogy" before the deadline, or if they will just leave it at the current price.

This comment was edited on Jan 10, 2012, 06:43. 		 
 
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