Thanks for your note and comments on Interplay, its games, and recent actions.
For some reason, there has been a high amount of speculation about Black Isle Studios and intellectual property surrounding our license to print money indiscriminately. My only guess is that the source of these rumors must be an employee/employees who recently departed Interplay, quite probably moments before we could grab them and throw them in the mass grave of ex-Fallout developers that we were digging at the time.
My response to these rumors is quite simple (as, indeed, are most of our Board of Directors): Interplay management makes decisions and takes action on items relating to product, personnel, costs, revenue, and more on a day-to-day basis (and by a day-to-day basis I mean, for example, that our Chief Exec might get up one morning, cut himself shaving, and decide on that particular day to channel his anger by sacking some employees), none of which would be deemed material by SEC regulations, and none of which would merit a public announcement or press release. Oh, and by "making decisions on a day-to-day basis" I did not mean to imply that Interplay management only thinks in the short term and makes ridiculous, narrowminded, knee-jerk business decisions that demonstrate a total lack of imagination or foresight, no sir-ee Bob I didn't...
Accordingly, if Interplay management had closed its most valuable development asset or chosen to abandon one of its most prized intellectual assets, the Company would have made an announcement. However, as our Chief Executive regards his own pencil-thin dick as the only development asset worth giving a fig about, and since he also thinks that an "intellectual asset" is a highly gifted baby donkey, then neither of these classifications would therefore apply to Black Isle Studios, Fallout 3, or indeed to the large blunt machete recently applied to the staff roster associated with both.
As always, Interplay management is focused on delivering great, profitable games and maximum shareholder value... in the same way that Saddam Hussein was always focused on delivering peace and prosperity to the people of Iraq.
I was just thinking of the same damn thing, of when SoVF was canned and the community had given backlash when they finally found out what happened. It might have been because that Star Trek fans were waiting for that game as it nearly had as many carrots dangled like the Fallout license.
A 2 making money for Interplay right now, Q4 '03? [Chant.] ""Loser"".
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