It depends. Will it affect elder scroll 5?

suck it bethesda

Hah, consensus seems to be that Bethesda should leave Fallout alone and make us Elder Scrolls 5 already.

I'm not emotionally invested in this argument, but Bethesda did buy the IP. I suppose buying the rights to the rest of the series was either too expensive, or they didn't think that far ahead.

Yeah! I don't care if Interplay eats babies. Computer games!

This won't make a difference. The Fallout MMO will almost certainly never be finished. Interplay were a great company once..... a long time ago. Now, it's a wrecked shell of its former self, barely able to produce anything, disorganized, dispirited and lacking in direction. Even with the massive amount of money they gained by selling off the Fallout IP, they still couldn't pay off all their debts.

Interplay is sunk. Like Midway, they will totter around on the stage for a few more years, grasping at the memory of their glory days. But the fact of the matter is that Interplay haven't released anything in many many years, they have made almost no progress towards making any sort of game fit for release, and they probably never will.

I know many Fallout fans say that Bethesda has "ruined" the fallout franchise. I disagree but I understand that nostalgia is a powerful force. However, even the most ardent fallout fan must realize, surely must realize, that Interplay were NEVER going to do anything with their Fallout IP. Before they sold it to Bethesda, they were many millions of dollars in debt and had no funding and were a skeleton company. Their capacity to produce a fallout game was nil due to the fact that the company had been so badly mismanaged.

I don't understand - if Bethesda hadn't picked up the Fallout I.P, Interplay wouldn't have even had the CHANCE to develop the MMO. No matter what, Interplay was never going to, and never could, have released another fallout game. Bethesda didn't steal anything - it actually saved Interplay and the fallout franchise, for without Bethesda's money, Interplay would have shut down a long, long time ago. And you can't blame Bethesda for Interplay's lack of progress.

I really don't care as long as it means we still get new Fallout IPs from both companies. Regardless of what some feel about Fallout 3, I loved it and can't wait for the next one. But, I also can't wait to see what Interplay does with an MMO. We really need a more futuristic set MMO, and fallout has the right amount of various storytelling aspects to make for an enjoyable setting.

@Korolev - I don't think people prefer Interplay's Fallout games for nostalgia, I think they prefer it because, you know, those games never released as the buggy shitheaps that Bethesda is known for.

Bethesda seriously needs to learn what quality assurance is.

sweet juicy justice. bethesda could never publish another game and i'd be alright with that.

First off, don't comment if it dosen't involve the actual article. Second, I understand Interplay made the first two Fallouts. Good for them. Fallout 3, though, is amazing. 3D, FPS, just beatiful. I want a 3D FPS MMO. Not some click-and-move MMO. Personally, thanks to Bethesda, I want to play more fallout games. And from some of the concept art/screenshots of Interplays Fallout MMO, it looks... Incorrect. THere are tree's. Even thought they are burt, if the world got nuked, there shouldn't be any trees. Buildings maybe, but no trees. Plus it looks like Fallout 3, but lower graphics. Interplay, drop the Fallout MMO title. Please.