Bobbin said:
Let's see, the strategy here is to wait, boycott Interplay in every possible and go on ranting forever.
Hey, if you want to throw money around, all the more power to you. If I didn't have any scruples or integrity, I would suggest the exact same thing as Sean, if just to take advantage or morons such as yourself.
You've really not addressed any points and instead go for waggling your finger. That doesn't work when you really didn't do any thought behind it.
So you have two options. You can either bother to read what has been written, especially when Interplay's PC development is pretty much DEAD, or don't bother replying again.
They would have to re-hire and much more, and it's going to take a LOT more money to coax the people back. Or they could have the people who are left there make a Fallout 3. Not a good solution, either. If a company won't license it out to Troika, then what makes you think that this has any more feasibility?
Sure, kid, keep pipe dreaming. Keep proving the street rule that a fool and his money deserve to get parted.
"Maybe we will see a spiritual sequel to Fallout",
This is quite likely, since many development houses are working on them.
"Maybe a big company picks this up",
I didn't say "big", shithead. If you're going to mouth stuff again like that, you can leave.
"Maybe Interplay goes down the drain"...
Which would be for the best since Interplay is nothing like what it was before. It's continual existence is a mockery to the people who worked hard to make the name great and had that effort exploited at the whim of a French whore. That is exactly the same situation BIS is now in.
Okay, we do nothing. How long will IPLY survive? With all the cuts and BGDA2 and FOBOS getting money in this may be well another year.
Hopefully less since F
OS isn't really cared for and Interplay's name is becoming mud in console circles, especially when Snowblinds is working on something else and that BIS is essentially dead as a development house.
Or even longer regarding that IPLY is in financial struggles for years.
Although I wish Interplay would die already and lessen the insult towards the people who made it what it was, the press releases, especially the one about the music selection in F
OS, tend to be a bit amusing.
No one will be interested in this license anymore in 1-2 years.
That's odd...people have been following this license since 1997. People are still interested in it and the Ultima license, although to EA Ultima only means a MMORPG to get money from instead of making great games.
Yes, we believe your naive assumption...no, not really.
It's like Wing Commander which is not even used
Oh, good. You mention something I have more than a passing knowledge of, most of Origin's titles and background.
Because the development house is essentially dead, no more titles. Pretty much like BIS is now. Would you toss money to EA for another Wing Commander title? If you said yes, then I'd also consider you an idiot.
Next time, don't use such stupid examples that slit your own throat in debate. I'm far too good in debate to miss them.
or Ultima which is used in a very bad way.
Much like X-COM. But what your simple mind hasn't grasped is that Ultima is still liked and has a great amount of interest behind. Fallout does as well, which is why people at press sites have been following the happenings of Interplay much more lately. The amount and spread of outrage over Fallout 3 being canceled before it was even announced in favor of some shitty console game is quite noticeable, and the last halfway decent Fallout game was back in 98, if you don't count the number of bugs still left in. If someone were to pick up the Fallout license again, or come up with something that draws the people who enjoy the post-apocalyptic genre, then it would be welcome.
And you're wanting to trust your money to Interplay, just because there's a "contract"? There's so many ways to weasel out of it, and at the end of all this collecting, Interplay could tell you to fuck off for making the contract too restrictive. Then you will get only a portion of your money as legal and accounting fees are taken out of it. At that point, who will be the one who keeps control of the PayPal account and such? Or what happens when Interplay takes your money, gives everyone severance pay and shows them the door, and then declares bankruptcy? But "your $100k" is sitting in a bank account when the company declares bankruptcy. With that legal situation, good luck in getting it sorted out from everything else Interplay owes or will accrue by then.
Of course, you probably didn't think that far ahead on that subject. It would not surprise me at all.
Here everyone likes to convince himself that IPLY is going down soon,
They may linger, but if you haven't noticed, they're pretty much only releasing the same game many times this year, with different graphics in each incarnation. Given that, I doubt the console crowd is going to be impressed enough with them to keep buying the games.
the license gets available and Troika or Obsidian pick it up. Right, this obviously has to happen.
This is certainly far preferable to Interplay working on a Fallout 3, especially when there's really nobody there to make a PC Fallout 3 and to hire the ones people are thinking of back to BIS would take just about all that $100k. Especially so when a number of them are now working at Obsidian or other places and many of which are completely through with Interplay.
Where are you going to pull the people to work on this title? Out of your ass? It's not going to be out of house with Interplay holding it, since Interplay has refused to do that on a number of occasions. Either that, or they're waiting for someone cheap enough to make an offer.
A lot of posts here with assumptions. And if anyone finally comes up with an idea he's being ranted on. What a great community.
Agreed. Your biggest assumption is that if your give them money, you'll magically see Fallout 3. You really haven't thought any past the money part.
An idea is even worse if it's stupid, and I guess it's MY fault for pointing out the flaws that might get people suckered into something. 100k isn't a damn thing for game development, BIS is pretty much no more, and pretty much all of those who worked on Fallout, Fallout 2, and Van Buren, in a design capacity, are either at Troika, Obsidian, or scattered elsewhere in the industry or wherever.
So how exactly were you expecting to have Fallout 3 made after you've thrown your money away to Interplay? Oh, holy shit! You didn't THINK that far ahead, did you, kid?
That's right, you didn't think beyond the first piece moving, only going for oral gratification as you rape your keyboard. I think I've mentioned about this problem before.
So go ahead and toss money into Fallout 3 for the console, as that's about all you'll ever see. Don't blame me because I point out the fact that that you're an idiot.
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