PCGZine’s Fallout 3 Interview

[13pm]

if you think they've paid so much to acquire the franchise just do make a single game

First - not SO much. Second - *somebody* can buy license too.

if I do understand anything in (gaming) business, they won't sell the license they've fought for. Noone can buy a franchise untill Bethesda will be willing to sell it. And they are unlikely to. They will squeeze out every fucking dollar from the franchise until they will want to sell it. And there IS a possibility to do that (make money) with further Fallout releases. It's a well-selling brand. Only Vault Boy merchandise stuff will bring 'em helluva lot of money. Why should they sell a gold mine? I don't think any sense in it.

You know what I mean. If *somebody* succesfully launched *something* before April 9 2013...

No, I don't know what you mean.

 

[Per]

He's referring to FOOL, though I fail to see the point.

 

[Wasteland Stories]

They will squeeze out every fucking dollar from the franchise until they will want to sell it.

As I say in my PM, Fallout as franchise not so good - yeah, every gamer who read a game magazines know, that Fallout "RPG for Old-Timers", but no something more than that.
Fallout for Bethesda, chance to say "You see that? We can make something more than Oblivion, Oblivion with guns!". I'm sure, that next Bethesda's project - not Fallout. And next too.

though I fail to see the point

My point is:
Fallout 3 - last Bethesda's Fallout project. Fallout "4" 'll developed by somebody else - Obsidian, Interplay in-house studio etc.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

My point is:
Fallout 3 - last Bethesda's Fallout project. Fallout "4" 'll developed by somebody else - Obsidian, Interplay in-house studio etc.

I am not sure if the licence will ever be revived again should Fallout 3 by Bethesda fail, perhaps rather it disappears into obscurity.

And would there still be a point of making a new Fallout game after should this game not be the great financial success Bethesda hopes it to be?

I can be wrong but I have the idea that many of the old time Fallout fans will have moved on, having accepted that the Fallout series is over, and are now following new game series that haven't got such a disastrous development path, while the new gamers will probably quickly forget the game and instead play Rage and Gearbox's PA game, preferring a sequel to those.

Its not meant negative but perhaps the franchise should be laid to rest.

 

[Ashmo]

The main reason to make Fallout 4 if Fallout 3 does not turn out to be the breathtaking revolution Bethesda is hyping it as, is that they already own the license.

IPs = good. You don't sell IPs unless you get a very good offer or (like IPLY) need the money really bad.

My money is on Beth making a sequel to their bastard child and another one if there's a market for it. The game would need to be a tremendous economic failure for them to step away from the license and even then they'd rather bury it in their archives than sell it to someone who could make a decent game out of it (if there is any studio left with a glimmer of interest in the IP at that point).

 

[Brother None]

You people seem to forget Bethesda is owed by ZeniMax. Bethesda's fragile egos don't factor into this story, they don't have the option to lock it up in their vaults.

ZM uses Bethesda as a cash cow, they would not be happy if the cash cow runs dry. Somehow Bethesda convinced ZeniMax Fallout was the license to go to and while one could argue it wasn't a good pick ZM went with it.

But if Fallout 3 fails, ZM would be all ears to a good offer.

Thing is there's nobody looking to buy, with the kind of money they'd want.

 

[Morbus]

As long as they leave it alone, it's a good thing. I don't care if they have it, as long as they don't rape it... Of course, if they manage to do a worthy sequel, that's another story...