Warskull wrote on Jun 1, 2011, 15:48:
At the same time Bethesda didn't want to pay for the rights to an MMO. We all know Fallout is an extremely valuable IP and they passed on the MMO rights because they were being cheap.
No matter how many times you post that same garbage, it doesn't make it any more true.
The facts are Interplay WANTED to keep the MMO rights all along. The head guy was talking about possibly making a Fallout MMO, long
BEFORE Interplay sold the IP to Bethesda. So they put a
STUPID price on the MMO rights, which Bethesda then said "fuck you".
That's how the whole agreement was made of "selling the IP except for the MMO rights... and the MMO rights would revert back to Bethesda if certain conditions weren't met".
If Bethesda was "being cheap", why would there be an agreement for "certain conditions to be met, or the MMO rights to revert back to Bethesda"? It was to protect the IP they just bought... not to be cheap.
The original Interplay plan was to develop the MMO from the sale of the rest of the Fallout IP... and hopefully make a WOW-like killing.
The only problem is... Bethesda was smart enough to stipulate they had to raise 30 Million (Beyond the IP Sale) within a certain amount of time, to prove they had the funding for a PROPER MMO Project and not DAMAGE the IP... which Interplay did not accomplish... which is why Bethesda has been in litigation with Interplay.
This comment was edited on Jun 2, 2011, 09:32.
Get your games from GOG DAMMIT!