Fallout Online Website Launched

[Ausir]

Who says he's literally alive?

 

[Lexx]

How exactly can The Master still live?

Ask all the people who say that Elvis is still alive.

 

[Ausir]

Or who believe in the resurrection of Jesus, for that matter.

 

[Arden]

I really hope it won't be another farming and raid-mmorpg. There are enough of those around. I wish for something more like EVE and Neocron with emphasis on player vs player and faction vs faction interaction and player guided economy and politics.

I will wait and see.

Seems a bit risky in my opinion. Imagine: it gets developed, looks really good and a day from realease some beth-lawyer pulls the plug....

 

[aenemic]

chances are they will release it anyway, but simply remove the Fallout brand and everything that is connected to it. might delay the game by a year or so, but...

 

[Ausir]

So, has anyone found any legal info about it already? The lack of Bethesda reaction to it looks pretty interesting. They did not close the FOOL threads in the Beth forum (despite Bethesda's harsh moderation policies), they did not pull the FOOL news from Planet Fallout (even though we know they'd be able to do so if they wanted to).

Or maybe Beth is just too busy at E3? Wonder if we'll see any reaction from them after E3 is over.

And announcing it as Fallout Online without a settlement with Beth sounds too risky even for Herve. Or maybe I'm just overestimating him. Or underestimating him. Or both. After all, the preliminary injunction was denied in part exactly because they were not officially using the Fallout Online trademark.

 

[Brother None]

Nah, this has got to be Bethesda-approved. Too huge a gamble otherwise.

Sure some of their staff is at E3, but there's enough left to issue a cease-and-desist. It's a big company, they're not that easily distracted.

 

[Ausir]

Nah, this has got to be Bethesda-approved. Too huge a gamble otherwise.

On one hand, I'd think the same. But on the other, it's Herve. Who the fuck knows. And he has ignored Bethesda's C&Ds in the past. I'd say that the reactions of Bethesda moderators and Planet Fallout in the next week or so will be more telling than Interplay's actions.

And don't the words "too huge a gamble" apply just as well to pretty much the whole development history of FOOL?

I guess we'll have to wait for a SEC filing. Any idea when we might see one that would cover this?