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Here it is for those of you who didn't believe us, per this thread Damien 'Puuk' Foletto confirmed why Fo3 was canceled (or atleast of one the many reasons):<blockquote>Saint Proverbius: Partly? It's entirely the reason they cancelled Fallout 3. The excuse Darth Molitor gave was that Fallout 3 probably wouldn't be completed on schedule. One big reason it might not make it on that schedule is because Darth Molitor kept pulling people off Fallout 3 to work on Fallout Enforcer: Brothelhood of Steel.</blockquote>Damien followed up with this as a respons:<blockquote>Damn straight. I'll 100% confirm this.</blockquote>EDITED: This news bit was edited due to certain information was incorrect/had minor falseness to it..

It seemed the Fbos team was in contact with the Bis crew, but for how long and how much they took their word further into the development in FBos..well...just look at the product and use your imagination..
 
The only time a BIS person was consulted that I know about personally regarding the Fallout Enforcer thing is that Interplay execs basically freaked out when Fallout fans came out of the woodwork to bash the game. They basically asked Feargus why we were doing this and what to do about it.

Pretty funny shit.
 
I feel sorry for those guys now. Being assigned such a crappy project, that is doomed to fail and cause the company to go bankrupt. I'm not sure, but I think making Fo3 would've been a much safer card to play.

BoS is released very soon, right? I'm very very interested in seeing how well it sells. Flip or flop.
 
Mr. Teatime said:
Will interplay survive if FOBOS doesn't sell at all? I'm trying to work this out.....
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SURVEY SAYS!!!!!

NO .... number one answer with 90 percent of the votes

other answer on the board

F-U Chuck with 8 percent

and Fallout??? with 2 percent
 
If a dev is to put in such a straightforward, direct response, it sort of means there's no doubt about it. "dan" is probably trying to garner what public appraisal it can get and fool the most idiotic.

It's not a "hope they go bankrupt and die" anymore. They will, sooner or later, because they're in financial hell *and* they can't make anything excellent.
 
Not to mention they've got zero credibility in both their business decisions, nor their ability to convey anything with any level of honesty.
 
Please excuse me for jumping into the middle of this, but I have to put my two cents worth in.

Was BIS consulted about Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel...

I would have to say no. I can't recall ever being consulted about FOBOS, and I can't recall any of my fellow team members being consulted either. I think that the fact of the matter is that the FOBOS team went off and did what they wanted to with the license with little to no regard at all for maintaining any resemblance to the original games.

It's a very sad but true fact that the divisions at Interplay were exactly that: Divisions.

I don't want to go into details about that statement. I'm not here as an angry ex-employee trying to bash Interplay. Let's just say that, like almost any company, there was a lot of political crap going on between the divisions. Black Isle was not respected by the people in middle management positions of the other divisions. I honestly feel that we were not consulted about FOBOS because they wanted to be able to say that they did it on their own without our help...

In any case, enough said. Once again, excuse me for butting in.
 
No apologies needed for that, JDeiley. It does confirm what some of us have put together and surmised from other independent clues. Well, that and Puuk and yourself make about the 5th or 6th persons to say "We talked to who?" or something of the sort.

It also might be noted that since I looked a while ago, Interplay's game list has been axed substantially. I guess they got embarrassed of being reminded of when the company thrived.

That makes a Rosh very sad.
 
Gentlemen,

I have been contacted by a current employee at Interplay in regards to this matter and have been asked to put the record straight. No, it was not a lawyer. :)

I was informed that the FOBOS team did indeed speak with BIS in regard to the console version of Fallout. Apparently this happened at a time that I was not aware of. Since neither myself nor my team members were management personnel, we were not made aware of this. I can accept that. There is, and must be, a chain of command in a company.

I have no reason to believe that I am being lied to in this regard. Therefore, I retract my statement, apologize to the fans who are reading this board, and, most importantly, I apologize to the FOBOS team.

I was wrong, and I am not afraid to admit it. Please forgive my transgression.
 
Interplay has cancer.... It's spreading and eventually, it's gonna kill.

T-minus 11 days and counting.
 
JDeiley, what still makes me wave the bullshit flag is that they claim "a lot of contact with them" when BIS people have been the last people to know of this, apparently.

Please note that I would put a bit of doubt of the word of someone who still works at Interplay versus those who have come forward and go "What the hell?"

Dan: Luckily for us, the BIS guys were very interested in what we were doing with F:BOS,
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I would like names, as everyone I've seen at BIS distanced themselves away from it.

and from the very beginning we had a lot of contact with them regarding storyline, setting and characters.
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Plural...plural...I'm looking for ONE.

They also provided us with a mountain of information to help out with all the tiny details that litter such a landscape, from timelines to bibles.
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Oh, no... I know whom it was; it was Feargie again, but this time he was naked with the Fallout Bileball on Chuck Cuervos' desk! No wonder, I should have put together that the game fit his brand of brainwashing curriculum. :wink:
 
Even if they did get advice, all of it went out the door from what I saw of Fallout: POS.
 
JDeiley said:
Since neither myself nor my team members were management personnel, we were not made aware of this. I can accept that. There is, and must be, a chain of command in a company.
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There's the important part.
 
So lemme guess, Dan contacted you guys and bitched and whined about you making them look bad. Then he tells a story about he once talking to some ex Bis employee around the watercooler......for 5 minutes..

Y34H BIS H3LP3D ALL 7H3 71M3!
 
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