Bethesda sues Interplay over Fallout Online and original Fal : Fallout Series Discussion

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:46 am

Maybe they'll end up settling it somehow?

I wouldn't bet on it. Besides, wasn't it agreed upon that IPLAY had to get at least $30m by April 2009? If I read their quarterly filings correctly, they didn't succeed. That will be the deciding factor in this.

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:55 pm

Yes, but one of IPLY's shareholders.

Can we be relatively certain that this is one of their shareholders and not someone just playing the part? Their comments make me more than a little skeptical that this is the real deal.

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:51 pm

As I expected, this was posted by a random forum member at Interplay who just so happened to buy a couple of shares of stock.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:02 am

Can we be relatively certain that this is one of their shareholders and not someone just playing the part? Their comments make me more than a little skeptical that this is the real deal.

Yeah, the guy has been around for quite a while. Interplay is a public company so anyone can buy its stock, even if it's just a couple of shares. I don't see why you'd be sceptical about that. And as a public company Interplay has to disclose such details to even small shareholders.

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 4:47 pm

Yeah, the guy has been around for quite a while. Interplay is a public company so anyone can buy its stock, even if it's just a couple of shares. I don't see why you'd be sceptical about that. And as a public company Interplay has to disclose such details to even small shareholders.

The fact that anyone can own shares makes the "But he's a shareholder so he knows" worthless as a credential. And no, as a shareholder in a public corporation, the access to business information is limited to legal financial disclosures, and not the entirety of information pertaining to business operations.

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:54 pm

Who is this shareholder? If his/her name's on the suit, there should be no problem naming them.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:26 am

His name is frymunch, or something like that. He's just some forum hound on the Interplay boards who bought a few shares to 'support' them. He also has had some brilliant ideas like 'Interplay should merge with Ubisoft' and it makes sense 'since they both have ties to France'! LOL :rofl:

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:46 am

He's just some forum hound on the Interplay boards who bought a few shares to 'support' them.

If there's one thing that the current economic crisis taught me; is that any idiot can invest in stock, but only few can invest it wisely.

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:56 pm

If interplay pulled some amazing coup and got the fallout license back. It wouldn't be much better.

Though I still want that to happen, Interplay is in no shape to make a good fallout game again.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:40 am

I hope Interplay win and sell it to someone who won't make [censored]blivion in a post-apoc enviroment.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:26 am

Man this thing just gets more and more absurd.

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:34 pm

I'm wondering about the whole 'damaging letters' thing. I watch game news sources constantly and never heard of gamesas sending these letters.

You can find the Fallout Trilogy in my midwest small town Wal-Mart and Target. It's not getting blackballed here.

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:25 pm

You can find it on Newegg, Amazon and many other online stores as well.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:28 am

You can find it on Newegg, Amazon and many other online stores as well.

I bought my copy from Amazon hastily, thinking no one in the tri-county area had it. Low and Behold, it was at Wal-Mart, staring at me and laughing because I paid 6 bucks in shipping. ARRGHH.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:45 am

Heh. Sounds like pretty typical legal suit/counter-suit back-and-forth mumbo-jumbo. :shrug:

Although in my personal opinion, creating a package and calling it the "Fallout Trilogy", when it does not include Fallout 3... certainly appeared to be trying to "trade upon the look and feel" of the Fallout games developed by Bethesda.

But again, that is a personal opinion, and all the legal gobbledy-gook that one can dig up can be interpreted to favor one side or another, depending on your leanings.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:40 am

Wasn't the "fallout trilogy" package out long before gamesas even bought the rights to FO?

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:57 am

Wasn't the "fallout trilogy" package out long before gamesas even bought the rights to FO?

Yes, as the Fallout Collection, though I don't think anyone is certain when the actual switch to Trilogy occured.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 5:59 am

I thought the "fallout Collection" was the euro produced version while the "Fallout trilogy" was the US produced version.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:30 am

Oh my. These lawsuits are just hair splitting nonsense. Bloody corporate greed and bullying is what it is.

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:14 pm

MobyGames has a "Fallout Collection" listed as being released in the UK in 2008: http://www.mobygames.com/game/fallout-collection
But it also lists a "Fallout Trilogie" released this year in Germany: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/fallout-trilogie (although there are no pictures of the packaging to confirm it).

I don't see anything about the US release, although I've seen it in stores (but don't remember the title of the compilation).

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:12 am

As far as I can tell, Fallout Trilogy wasn't used until this year.

Seems pretty blatant to me. They just took Fallout: The Ultimate Collection (released 5 years ago) and renamed it.

Go Interplay? :shakehead:

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:31 pm

Oh my. These lawsuits are just hair splitting nonsense. Bloody corporate greed and bullying is what it is.

This. It's not the most important thing in the world.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:35 am

As far as I can tell, Fallout Trilogy wasn't used until this year.

I believe the name "Fallout Triology" had been used for some time, and the different names for the collection was partially regional.

» Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:05 am

Well, according to this, it wasn't.

http://pc.ign.com/objects/658/658768.html

Fallout Trilogy USA: April 22, 2009
Fallout Collection: 2004

And here we can see comments on a product using the 'Collection' title in the USA as far back as 2006: http://www.amazon.com/Fallout-Collection-Tactics-Post-Nuclear-PC/product-reviews/B000IGE78M/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Ah apparently that's the UK version as well.

I can find no evidence of anything using the 'Trilogy' term prior to the one that seems to be in question, which was released well after Fallout 3.

» Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:47 pm

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