Bethesda owns the rights to Fallout. I'm not sure and hopefully this topic can stay open. But according to the article in Gameinformer titled: "Back To The Wasteland", Bethesda has won the rights to the Fallout MMO as well as the Fallout title and story elements. Interplay has been given the right to sell FO, FO2 and Tactics until 2013 then it becomes the sole property of Bethesda.

I for one and both saddened and delighted by this. I enjoyed the games Interplay created but am in love with what Bethesda has done with the series.

One thing I do not want is a Fallout MMO but I also understand that at this point its kind of inevitable. I just hope that they still continue to make single player Fallout games.

http://www.bethblog.com/2012/01/09/press-release-fallout-mmo-rights-restored-to-bethesda-softworks-in-interplay-litigation/

I don't think we have to worry about Bethesda doing an MMO. If I remember correctly there is a Zenimax Online division that would be making any MMO.

Apparently then, I'm really behind the times. Thanks.

A little late, maybe by a month. There used to be threads in the series discussion about it.

Yes, there is a Zenimax Online Division. They can keep the MMO aspect as long as I can still wander the wastes in a single player game.

Yes, I realized that after reading the link Freddo posted. In my defense I just got the new Gameinformer and I've been preoccupied with Skyrim.

Weird I got my issue about 2 weeks ago.

Bethesda can go [censored] itself, those have nothing to do with them.

Well, since they bought the ip from Interplay then obviously they want all of the intellectual property so, yes. The previous titles do belong to Bethesda.

A bit old news but yes. Also, Interplay itself has nothing to do with it either. All people associated with Int Prod. are gone, even Brian Fargo the founder. Same goes for the disbanded Black Isle. Many people cling to the name but just because it was something once, eventually becomming a publishing powerhouse, doesn't mean it is now. By all means it's one of the shadiest companies existing in the gaming industry currently.

I'm glad Zenimax/ Beth Softworks owns the MMO itself now. Zenimax's new MMO branch can handle it better than Interplay. Plus I'm sure given the opportunity BGS itself could be tasked to port FO 1/2 to smartphone platforms whether iOS, Android, or WP7.

The IP itself is really something to struggle about. Hell no to Interplay but Obsidian nor BGS aren't wholly good enough to develop the IP. And there's no way the original Fallout team could ever be pieced together. In my opinion the FO 2 team was highly less superior, we know the game received a ton of corporate oversight, and Avellone has a huge disregard for the lore which is why the most hardcoe even dispute FO 2 being canon in the sense of FO1's fiction. Sure Tim Cain's back and I love the guy. But not even he himself was behind the whole thing.


All in all BGS is relatively safe hands and after 3 and the example from NV, FO 4 can't be worse.

Much of Bethesda Game Studios turmoil comes not in that it isn't capable or makes crap games. That when we finally do play them we play good, even great games. But we consider what could have been, especially when this was the same yet expanded studio that made Daggerfall.

Plus FO 3 was daunting even to the most forgiving fans. While I'm calm minded now at launch I highly paraded with a vendetta against BGS. Even when I registered here back in 2010 I did so and trashed them to death.

I could see them making the games free in years to come. Maybe a good thing to introduce fans to the old ones.

Its not their work, as far as im concearned they have no claim to those at all.

No doubt. Many people were introduced to their first two TES games in the same way so that could be a high possibility. I wouldn't leave out porting to smartphones though. That seems like a popular thing to do and fans clamor for it. While you can drop the files and run DOSBox on, well, confirmed: WebOS, rooted Android, Jailbroken iOS, it doesn't work out too well. And InXile also did mention if Wasteland Kickstarter went through and say the game launched on PC it'd make sense for mobile devices as well. I don't see Zenimax backing out from simple porting jobs to assign to BGS or other bought studios. Lots of money, and even I would buy it up.

-Cough- Although it wouldn't hurt if when they do go on smartphones if they tasked themselves or someone like Obsidian to make a isometric FO side title on them. Think what's happening for XCOM right now.

I'd definitely go for that, even though as an RPG fan I never liked the CRPG approach of trying to emulate pen and paper/ turn based things as I feel it never wholly worked.

It's not Interplays work either if we take it from a creation stand-point and not IP owning as you are. That's like saying Bioware's work was made by EA, CDProjekt's work is Atari's, or Bethesda Game Studios work is Zenimax's. Or that no one else can lay claim to the IPs at any time if any of them are public companies/sell the IP.

IP is IP and fact is ownership is held. I don't see the issue in Beth Softworks selling 1/2. They already own the IP. And they have BGS make the games.

Interplay no more made Fallout. Internal teams, and what later became Black Isle did.

At least Beth Softworks let Obsidian make a Fallout, and they have 1000% more people than Interplay does related to FO 1/2. Interplay wouldn't have.

By that logic, they have no claim or right even making a Fallout game, since it wasn't originally their work.

Bethesda own fallout now, either get over it or quietly move on to a different series which does please you.

I'd be down for versions of the older games that are optimized for Windows 7 or even 8 when it drops. I'd even like a mobile version.

Well you know.... they legally own it sooo.... as far as i am concerned, they have every right to.

I see what you mean, but Fallout got sold to Bethesda. Interplay seem happy about it, dont know why you have to moan considering it has sweet F.A. to do with you.

This needs to be locked, because it is causing a little ruckus which i dont want to see.

I've never understood peoples love of MMO's. Great gameplay and story line>>standing around for 6 hours and talking about what you'd like to do with your mage. If/when they create one it will mean the end of Fallout as we know it. If it's successful all the resources will be devoted to it because it will become their biggest money maker if done right.

It is more of the interaction with other people. A lot if FPS are like that. No one buys an MMO for the story if there even is one.