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Black Isle, Fallout 3 Dead
 [Dec 08, 2003, 10:32 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

More bad news at Black Isle Studios, where lead designer J.E. Sawyer resigned just last month (story), as Farewell, but not goodbye on the Interplay Entertainment Forums (thanks Nels Nelson) is a post from Damien "Puuk" Foletto that indicates that the studio is now shut down, referring to today as his "last day at the (former) BIS." This follows suit with a note sent along by designer John Deiley:
Today marks the end of an era. Black Isle Studios is no more. In yet another sweeping layoff of employees, Interplay has officially let go the last of it's Black Isle employees (save two that I know of) and dissolved the division. Also, the non-announced title that the division was working on, Fallout 3, has been "shelved" to quote management.
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Istari
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Dec 9, 2003, 02:39
Istari
 

**** WHY DO GOOD GAMES NOT SELL??? ****

Now with BIS going under, joing the moldering corpses of Looking Glass Studios and the old Microprose, I'm left again to wonder...

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why Planescape: Torment, System Shock 2, NOLF/NOLF 2 and Undying flopped in the marketplace. H**l, even Deus Ex and the Thief series only sold moderately well. Yet Enter the Matrix sells millions. I just don't get it.

Seriously - if deep, complex and rich games sold well, you wouldn't get the debacle that is Deus Ex: Invisible War (now with more powerups!). Why is it that none of these games sell well? Are we just such a small market that a company simply can't break even on us? Is it a failure of marketing?

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  god dammit!
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fuck
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shazbot
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Another Through the Looking Glass
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Magus
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Sasquach
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Dull Surprise.
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so dearly sorry
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Although not shocking...
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ZetaMaiL
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lets remember the good things...
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  SELL IT TO TROIKA!
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Flo
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Sad News...
Parallax Abstraction
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dear god no
Kangzai
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D4rkKnight
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Fallout 3
Da Stylin' Rastan
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Camaro76
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Black day for Black Isle
indiv
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Why exactly
Creston
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vacs
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Dr Freak
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From a gamer: heartfelt thanks to BIS
wipeout
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This blows
Noctis
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Silicon Avatar
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It's Dead
The End
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Curse them for this
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bi
Dantastic
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damnit
imposeeugenics
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Yeah I know
Noctis
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Franchises are bad for you
Troll
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