From the comments regarding Bethesda's lawsuit against Interplay...

Monster w21 Faces at 09/12/2009 02:38
You people are woefully deluded if you think Bethesda is the bad guy in this situation.
They bought the Fallout IP. Fallout is theirs and theirs alone. They paid over 5 millions dollars for it.
If you bought a loaf of bread from a guy for 5 millions dollars and he broke into your house at night, stole half the slices and then tried to sell them off to someone else you'd probably seek legal action aswell.
Interplay isn't some poor defenceless independant developer. They're a long established developer/publisher who destroyed their business through bad choices and sat on the Fallout IP for 10 years.
Grow the fuck up.

Ganjookie at 09/12/2009 03:31
@Monster w21 Faces your analogy is fucked up.
Its as if a man made 3 loaves of bread. HE sold the recipe to somebody and then after the new guy made some good bread and sold it to more people over a larger area, the original man tried to sell his bread again, and the new guy tried to fuck him in the ass, because he bought the recipe.

Actually, you're both wrong. It's as if Man A made some loaves of bread which all sold badly, so he went on to sell different recipes. Then another man, Man B, who was famous for his pies, asked Man A to buy his failed bread recipe. Then, in the weeks leading up to Man B's first batch of Man A's bread, Man B did a bunch of interviews with prominent baking magazines and websites about how much respect he has for Man A's fantastic, severely underrated bread. Then, when it's finally on sale, it turns out Man B made some changes to the bread recipe in order to make it taste more like his famous pie. Still, he's selling it as Man A's recipe, and Man A, who sees that people are becoming interested in his bread for the first time, decides to start selling his bread again, and then Man B comes and sues him.

Lengthy and silly analogies aside, I do think that Bethesda's alleged attitude towards Interplay and the Fallout series up till now is what's pissing a lot of people off. Activision may be an evil publisher, but it has no delusions about that fact, and it doesn't go to great lengths to try and hide it. Tim Schafer fans may have been angry when Activision sued EA over Brutal Legend, but at least no one was saying "this is going against everything that Activision has claimed to be about." Bethesda, on the other hand, kept repeating this mantra in the months and weeks leading up to Fallout's 3 release, about how much respect they have for the series and how much love they have for the series, and how they were trying their best to really bring that Fallout magic into Fallout 3. They failed miserably, of course, but many Fallout fans, including myself, really believed from their interviews and press that they had tried their best, and that's all anyone can really ask for. I personally had quite a lot of fun with Fallout 3, though II never logged as many hours into it as I did into either of the first two games, and I had fun DESPITE the changes Bethesda had made, not BECAUSE of them.

I won't presume to speak for all Fallout fans on this matter, but I will say that for myself, personally, this is about more than the lawsuit. This is about a claim that Bethesda has made time and time again, about how they're huge fans of the original Fallout games, about how passionate they are for the series, about how much they want gamers to experience this lost gem, and a lawsuit like this just proves how much of a lie that was. A true Fallout fan would be excited to see the first games selling again like they have been, and Bethesda trying to shut this down the way they are proves, to me at least, that they're more in this for the money than they are for the passion. They don't want gamers to experience the magic of the Fallout games, they want gamers to experience the magic of THEIR Fallout game.