Chris Taylor on FOOL beta test

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Interplay's new Fallout Online website quickly got flooded and broken by incoming traffic, which means you have to exercise some patience to sign up. Meanwhile, lead designer Chris Taylor has clarified some things on the official forums. About being hired as an in-house beta tester.<blockquote>We aren't hiring beta testers for PV13 at the moment (it's still a little too early), but when we do, we'll usually hire local testers for internal playtesting to start, then do a closed beta (Friends and Family, first), then do an open beta.</blockquote>About age requirements of the public beta.<blockquote>Yes, it will be restricted to a certain age.</blockquote>Spotted on The Vault.
 
Any idea when we might see the next SEC filing from IPLY? It could clarify the legal issues.
 
Ausir said:
Any idea when we might see the next SEC filing from IPLY? It could clarify the legal issues.
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With Interplay, who knows. I noticed Chris Taylor saying he couldn't comment, so that's about it unless we hear from Bethesda.

Also huh...
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Huh indeed.

As I mentioned in the previous thread, so far the most interesting thing has been the lack of reaction from Beth.
 
Fallout Online is the official Interplay MMO, yes. The fan-made one is called "FOnline", not "Fallout Online".
 
By the way, the text at the bottom of the website used to be:

Fallout® is a registered trademark of Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company, in the U.S. and/or other countries, and is used by Interplay under license from Bethesda Softworks LLC. All Rights Reserved.
This game is not yet rated by the ESRB.
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Now it's just:

Fallout® is a registered trademark of Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company, in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Rights Reserved.
This game is not yet rated by the ESRB.
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I can't see this ending well. I mean, I can't imagine Bethesda just letting a Fallout MMO exist without their involvement. I do hope to see more about it, and I do hope it sees the light of general release.

On a side note, do we have any idea what the story or background of the game is?
 
randir14 said:
So basically the beta form was nothing but a ruse to get people interested.
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They probably had a deadline to launch a website, would be my guess.

Also, doesn't bode well for the game when the server can't handle processing the sign up form. :crazy:
 
Yes, because the game servers will necessarily have the same bandwidth etc as the one that hosts their recently launched website.
 
was the same when warhammer online launched took me over an hour to register the day beta testing opened
 
Huntman said:
I can't see this ending well. I mean, I can't imagine Bethesda just letting a Fallout MMO exist without their involvement. I do hope to see more about it, and I do hope it sees the light of general release.
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Is it possible, that bethesda treads more carefully after loosing the preliminary injuction? IPlay acused bethesda that they were acting in bad faith trying to stop V13 (FOOL). And if beth keeps trying to stop iplay at every corner it certainly looks that way. The matter of the permanent injuction was settled out of court after the bashing bethesda got. Who knows what the deal was, perhaps bethesda agreed to shut up for a while.

Then again, this doesn't make any sense to me if the lawsuit concerning the Fallout-MMORPG is still ongoing. Wasn't one of the reasons why beth lost the prelim, that iPlay had not done any announcment, advertisment or comment on anything fallouty going on? And now that there is actually a homepage with the name Fallout on it, beth does nothing about it?

I'm confused and waiting for some clarifications or opinions from orionquest or someone else who's got a clue.
 
Yup, Bethesda did not get preliminary injunction precisely because Interplay did not officially announce the game as Fallout Online, so they could not prove that the continued development damages their brand. This is a very risky move if done without Beth's approval.
 
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