Briosafreak
Lived Through the Heat Death
The first comments on the Vivendi/Interplay crisis from within BIS have been made in this thread at the BIS feedback forum. We start with Damien "Puuk" Foletto speaking on the possibility of BIS going to another publisher if Interplay goes down:
<blockquote>BIS and Interplay are the same company, we're a division of Interplay, not a separate entity. If Interplay goes belly-up, then so do we. Pretty simple, really. </blockquote>
J.E. Sawyer also talked about the possibility of leaving Fallout3 to restart the work on Project Jefferson (also known as Baldur`s Gate3: The Black Hound), even if that would take them to tone down the mature content in it:
<blockquote>1) I'm not going to work on anything else at Interplay until my current project is finished.
2) I'm not going to change Jefferson's content for rating purposes. Jefferson's content, when designed, was on par with the maturity of the content presented in books like Lords of Darkness. And when I write that, I don't just mean that the types of things were similar, but that its presentation was similar in "maturity". There was nothing in that game that a teenager couldn't see or learn about on public television pre-9 p.m.</blockquote>
<blockquote>BIS and Interplay are the same company, we're a division of Interplay, not a separate entity. If Interplay goes belly-up, then so do we. Pretty simple, really. </blockquote>
J.E. Sawyer also talked about the possibility of leaving Fallout3 to restart the work on Project Jefferson (also known as Baldur`s Gate3: The Black Hound), even if that would take them to tone down the mature content in it:
<blockquote>1) I'm not going to work on anything else at Interplay until my current project is finished.
2) I'm not going to change Jefferson's content for rating purposes. Jefferson's content, when designed, was on par with the maturity of the content presented in books like Lords of Darkness. And when I write that, I don't just mean that the types of things were similar, but that its presentation was similar in "maturity". There was nothing in that game that a teenager couldn't see or learn about on public television pre-9 p.m.</blockquote>