Inertplay sues more

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Evidently Inertplay is on a suing spree, Forbes.com is reporting that Interplay has set out to sue BattleBorne Entertainment over a deal they struck earlier. Battleborne left the deal around Sept. 29 2003 and now Herve wants the cash they payed earlier..

It's also funny to report that Herve has gotten Interplay as high as 0.16/17 on the NASDAQ over the last year, right now it's at 0.10...Makes you wonder about the man on top doesn't it..
Link: Interplay sues Battleborne and IPLY on Yahoo Finance
 
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Cowardly tactics. This makes me hate them even more, as I know they'll finance FOPOS2 with that prostitute cash.
 
Hmmm... Is it just me, or would the money they're spending on lawyers be better spent on making games? Perhaps that would be a good way for them to make some money.
 
Montez said:
Hmmm... Is it just me, or would the money they're spending on lawyers be better spent on making games? Perhaps that would be a good way for them to make some money.
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WHAT?????

What do you think they are? A game company?
 
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Fashion Fascists

In this age, this 'brave new' age of state capitalism, corporations have all the rights of citizenship and fewer the liabilities then us air breathing entities.

It's the fashion for these corporate creatures to make money anyway they can manage, even outside the expressed or contrived focus of value adding production.

Some like Enron mined the tax laws and the privileges of moving ventures offshore. Perhaps I'play is seeking the illusion of profit by legal leveraging.

Once again they may be too late, as their move to consoles is alleged; too late to squeeze a private company dry, unless it's maneuvering to gain the rights to some property, or gain some judgement for future leverage.

If they were this aggressive with their money management between their corporate brothers, I'play may have had the grease to launch a BG:DA engine clone two months or three before their assured solid property BG:DA2 and thus avoid competing for the same gaming dollars, and exploit the Xmas buying spree.

Still, the 'smart money' proves true to the call to churn the bucks to justify their perks and parachutes, and saying IPLY INC is still a ...
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I would guess it's a move to keep whats left of the shareholders happy. If they are seen to be doing nothing about the companys legal interests then they just lose out all round..

wouldent it be funny if amoung all this suing it turns out the company they are trying to sue is completely legit.. :D
 
What I don't understand is why the Board doesn't remove Caen from his positions of leadership at Interplay and Titus. They've hardly performed well enough for shareholders to have any faith in him.
 
Time for a no confidence vote.

Look what the share-holders of Disney did to Michael Eisner. Withheld 40%+ of their vote, and got him removed as chairman of the board.

Of course, we're talking Disney vs. IP/Titus.

Go figure.
 
maybe they dont beleive its his fault, for some reason or another..
he must have his own propaganda campaign set up within the company :P
 
Have you guys noticed how they sued BattleBorne and refrained from suing Acclaim, that got the game instead of them, no doubt because Acclaim is their last hope to see Ineptplay games distributed in Europe.

Even if they are right on suing BB still they are getting the reputation of beeing the SCO or Rambus of videogaming. :roll:
 
What's wrong with Rambus? I'm going to buy one of their products (RDRAM) tomorrow... Would be a shame if they were f***ed up.
 
BattleBorne terminated their development contract with Interplay in late September--exactly at the heart of Interplay's big cash crunch. It seems likely that Interplay couldn't afford to continue to fund the development of the game, so BattleBorne terminated the agreement. I have no idea whether Interplay has a good case in asking for a return of the original advance, but I suspect that they aren't looking to take it to court. Judging by their recent legal MO, Interplay is probably looking to simply settle and recoup whatever it can.

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Have you guys noticed how they sued BattleBorne and refrained from suing Acclaim, that got the game instead of them, no doubt because Acclaim is their last hope to see Ineptplay games distributed in Europe.
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Good call. With all of these lawsuits, Interplay has strained relationships with companies with whom it must work and burned bridges with other companies entirely. Maybe they've begun to realize that some of their lawsuits are doing them more harm than good over time.
 
Baboon said:
What's wrong with Rambus? I'm going to buy one of their products (RDRAM) tomorrow... Would be a shame if they were f***ed up.
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For a few years they sued everyone on the memory chips business, for every imaginary breach of patents they could think off. They had an agreement with Intel that gave them support on their memory chips, but since their prizes were over the top they weren`t selling, so the only business model they come up was sueing everyone else on the competition. They lost all litigation, so they simply had to cut prizes to try to stay alive...

A few disputes are still pending though, but they won`t get market share with them, that's for sure...
 
Pope_Viper said:
Time for a no confidence vote.

Look what the share-holders of Disney did to Michael Eisner. Withheld 40%+ of their vote, and got him removed as chairman of the board.

Of course, we're talking Disney vs. IP/Titus.

Go figure.
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Kept him as CEO though, which is strange since a lot of people blame Eisner for dragging Disney down in the past decade and also for souring things with Pixar, the studio which have brought in the dough for Disney.

As for Interplay, it's not that easy. If I recall correctly, Titus and the Caen brothers control a big share of the stocks.
 
I think I've asked this question before, but...

How did the Caen's get enough money to buy Interplay? On Titus's web site I see a bunch a mediocre looking games that I've never heard of before. Did they honestly make enough money from those games to be able to purchase another company or to con a bank into funding them? I'm surprised that Titus is even able to stay afloat, never mind branching out. Did these idiots just inherit a lot of money or something?
 
I'm just speculating here, but they might simply borrowed the money from Credit Lyonnais, the bank that owns more than 60% of Titus shares.
 
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