Interplay earnings

Briosafreak

Briosafreak

Lived Through the Heat Death
If you are a shareholder of Interplay you might want to know that the third quarter earnings report is online , Interplay lost $2.1 million in the third quarter and its cash is down to $7,000.
A few quotes from the Report:
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If we are unable to substantially reduce our working capital needs, are unsuccessful in collecting amounts owed to us, fail to adequately exploit our game assets, or otherwise do not receive sufficient financing we may pursue a number of actions, including, but not limited to, (i)liquidation of any or all of our assets, (ii) sale or merger of the Company and/or (iii) seek protection from our creditors.
To reduce its working capital needs, the Company has implemented various measures including a reduction of personnel, a reduction of fixed overhead commitments, cancellation or suspension of development on future titles which management
believes do not meet sufficient projected profit margins, and the scaling back of certain marketing programs. Management will continue to pursue various alternatives to improve future operating results, and further expense reductions, some of which may have a long-term adverse impact on the Company's ability to generate successful future business activities.
[...] By: /S/ HERVE CAEN
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Herve Caen,
Chief Executive Officer and
Interim Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Executive and
Financial and Accounting Officer)</blockquote>
Link: Interplay Investor Discussion Forum
 
Well, it probably doesn't have to do with VB (it's as of Sep 30), but with these operating results, we can expect such policies to continue...

Mommy, Mr. Sawyer, Puuk, anyone, I'M SCARED!!! :cry:
 
Dan said:
They believe FOBOS is the salvation of IPLY?
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Iply isn't looking for salvation. They are looking for cash any way they can get it. Hence FO:BOS.

It went gold people. Its coming out. Iply prolly got a cash advance on it, so they don't really have 7000 dollars anymore...more like a few million..

or so says some of the investors on the Iply boards.
 
Well, I'm disappointed that the shareholders conference call was cancelled. It means I'll have to read through the filing but my guess is that Q3 was low because the wrote off the production costs for the cancelled Jefferson Project and the only release they had in Q3 was LH.

If I can confirm that write-off I'll let you know.
 
Production of Van Buren continues at this time, nothing new on that front. No one left this week, but the prospects of Interplay having the hability of overcoming the crisis aren`t looking good. We`ll see what happens.
 
I doubt very much that VB will continue, but that's just me.
After JE left, there wasn't really much hope of it really coming up.
It's unfortunate to hear that FOBOS went gold, now we have to wait and see if lots of people buy that shit.

As for IPLY, I see their building going down into rubble eventually, it's all a matter of time really...
 
lol, don't be affraid. You guys shouldn't be affraid. I guess if IPLY sells out somone will pick up BIS... and will have them working slavish hours on fantasy RPG/1st person SHOOTERS :)

anyways yeah I would be affraid if I worked at BIS or IPLY.... I would be VERY affraid, and it really makes sense why JE left, hell it makes sense why anyone would leave.
 
.what if

What happens if Interplay go under? Would BIS be sold off? Could the Fallout title be sold to another game dev or would Fallout die with them?
 
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NCR_Ranger said:
What happens if Interplay go under? Would BIS be sold off? Could the Fallout title be sold to another game dev or would Fallout die with them?
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BIS is a division, it doesn´t have a legal personality, so if Iplay goes under, BIS will be terminated.

They can get that autonomy, and be turned into a company inside one Iplay holding, but that doesn`t seem likely.

The Fallout license could be used as an asset to give to creditors, thus the franchise would continue, although what would happen to the code already made i don`t know, it would have to go to a company that had taken both the Fallout PC rights and the Jefferson engine rights.

Also those rights can be sold at any moment by Interplay, if they wish.
Troika tried to get the rights to make Fallout games for the PC but Interplay didn`t sell them, since they thought they had enough money to produce Van Buren/Fallout3 at the time.

The Fallout brand can also get in the middle of a legal battle and die, in case of a war between creditors, if bankrupty happens.

Also Interplay, in order to prevent legal trouble, can continue to make Fallout console games and to refuse to sell the Fallout pc games license to anyone else, thus killing the chances of a game called Fallout3 ever to be made for the PC.

You see many things can happen, let`s wait and see.
 
First, is "FOBOS" Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel? If so, how will the gold edition differ from the original?
 
Briosafreak said:
BMW!!!! You`ve posted on NMA finally! Welcome! :clap:
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Cheers =D

Briosafreak said:
Also those rights can be sold at any moment by Interplay, if they wish.
Troika tried to get the rights to make Fallout games for the PC but Interplay didn`t sell them, since they thought they had enough money to produce Van Buren/Fallout3 at the time.

The Fallout brand can also get in the middle of a legal battle and die, in case of a war between creditors, if bankrupty happens.

Also Interplay, in order to prevent legal trouble, can continue to make Fallout console games and to refuse to sell the Fallout pc games license to anyone else, thus killing the chances of a game called Fallout3 ever to be made for the PC.
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Yea, those fuckers, Troika would make a much better Fallout3 game with the license than IPLY could ever hope to....
but because interplay is so fucking incompetent with it, and have idiots like fucky chucky on their team, they can only whore out the license and churn out shitty console games like FOBOS

King said:
First, is "FOBOS" Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel? If so, how will the gold edition differ from the original?
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No, FOT was the 3rd game leading after Fallout2, which many believed would be a Fallout3 game... it wasn't
though it did involve RPG elements, and kept some of the things that Fallout1/2 had, it was far from a cRPG and more of a tactical squad based game

FOBOS is Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which is an utter disgrace to fallout (and shouldn't even be called "fallout" in the first place)
first off it's not an RPG, it's a shoot 'em up style game, and it's on console (gee, great way to target the fallout community, interplay, you fuckers sure are smart)

and lastly, it contains hardly anything that fallout1/2 contained
infact, it doesn't even keep up with the storyline

for more information, read DarkUnderlord's review on it
I think you'll find a great array of details about it...
check it out here:
http://fmf.knightcommand.net/index.php?chapter=27_things_about_fobos#27
 
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