Interplay annual meeting; Caen is happy

I don't think he understands that console gamers and PC gamers are very very different. Most console gamers have never even heard of Fallout, just as many PC gamers don't give a rat's *** about say, Fable. Has Caen ever played a game? IMO, this is not his fault. He's just retarded, and he can't help it. Maybe we should feel sorry for him. :|
 
Baboon said:
Maybe we should feel sorry for him. :|
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Yeah, I'll feel sorry for him once Interplay tanks and he's panhandling on the streets

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oh wait, no i won't. I'll laugh my ass off and throw garbage at him. then i'll kick him in the head with my foot.
 
WTF? Only the console team of Black Isle exists, and they HAVE canceled Fallout 3. And the PC BIS employees HAVE been fired. Why else would they be saying that they have been fired? Besides, this article is waaay old. You're misinformed, Takashi. Check the NMA news section.
 
Just an idea

Anybody have a clue how many outstanding shares of IPLY there are? I mean $0.06 a share is dirt cheap, even if you only consider the Fallout license, and the rights to some of their catalogue. I mention this because, if the value of Interplay gets low enough, why couldn't a consortium of fans, through a website like this, buy a controlling interest? Seriously, somethingawful.com raised enough money to buy a whole platoon body armor in under a week. Buying a company that's spiraling down the drain isn't that big a leap. I would suggest waiting until we see what happens with FO:POS first, if it does poorly, the price might go below $0.06 a share...

Besides, sign me a contract swearing up and down you'll put out Fallout 3 and I'll buy 1000 shares in exchange for a frickin' free copy.
 
But the thing is, it's not dead. It still has some cash, and the future potential earnings of the licenses they own could easily overcome their debts. They just can't be stupid.

With more and more game companies being bought up by EA (and moving towards EA's business model of flooding store shelves with very similar products) there *could* be a definite niche market for a company that still makes good games. It's definitely not sure-fire, but personally I'd stick 100-200 of my dollars on the line just out of personal curiousity (that and I'm more likely to get a *good* game out of that "investment" eventually than I would be going down to Software, Etc and asking what's flying off the shelves)

If 1,000 of us feel that same way, there's real potential there.

Just as a framework to prevent bickering down the road, I propose that if we do this, and get a controlling interest, we appoint Brian Fargo to act on our behalf, and he will sign a contract stating that come hell or high water, he will drive the company into bankruptcy rather than fail to deliver Fallout 3. I'm not sure whether or not Fargo had the right idea all along with just direct-mailing products rather than bother with store shelves. The market for good games is definitely a niche one, and there are a few software studios in England surviving on one or two titles sold via direct mailing.
 
I would put some money towards this. £50 would be as much as I could do, which is about $80 US I believe. The problem is getting it actually done rather than people with good intentions. I'm sure all this has been discussed before, but no one is willing to organise or make this actually work.
 
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Chairface said:
Seriously, somethingawful.com raised enough money to buy a whole platoon body armor in under a week.
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True, but they have 20,000 registered members, NMA and DAC probably only have 2,000 combined. Besides that, the main thing against pooling our money like this is that even though Iplay's stock is at $0.06, the majority of it is held by Titus (IIRC) and most likely they aren't going to sell at that price.
 
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Montez said:
Chairface said:
Seriously, somethingawful.com raised enough money to buy a whole platoon body armor in under a week.
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True, but they have 20,000 registered members, NMA and DAC probably only have 2,000 combined. Besides that, the main thing against pooling our money like this is that even though Iplay's stock is at $0.06, the majority of it is held by Titus (IIRC) and most likely they aren't going to sell at that price.
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Yes but we have also Shamo - Polish Fallout Communit - with another 1000.

But I agree with you. Buying Titus' shares will be a problem.
 
Whilst I am sure this is just dreaming, I would be happy to contribute towards a semi-professional dev team to make a new franchise RPG, just as long as it's good and not designed for the 'mass market'. So turn based combat, etc etc, all the things that apparantly don't sell yet we all recognise as a sign of quality in a game, especially an RPG.
 
This whole company buying thing has already been proposed and discussed upon in like three threads already. It may sound like a good idea, but....
 
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Whilst I am sure this is just dreaming, I would be happy to contribute towards a semi-professional dev team to make a new franchise RPG, just as long as it's good and not designed for the 'mass market'. So turn based combat, etc etc, all the things that apparantly don't sell yet we all recognise as a sign of quality in a game, especially an RPG.
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Like Ground Zero Team and our Trinity? :roll:
 
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Kaczor said:
Montez said:
Chairface said:
Seriously, somethingawful.com raised enough money to buy a whole platoon body armor in under a week.
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True, but they have 20,000 registered members, NMA and DAC probably only have 2,000 combined. Besides that, the main thing against pooling our money like this is that even though Iplay's stock is at $0.06, the majority of it is held by Titus (IIRC) and most likely they aren't going to sell at that price.
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Yes but we have also Shamo - Polish Fallout Communit - with another 1000.

But I agree with you. Buying Titus' shares will be a problem.
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The Fallout petition has 18400 signitures surely this counts for something.
 
I doubt it, it's a much different matter from signing an anonymous petition to investing in shares of a company.

And honestly, this is a far-fetched idea, really. Try to leverage controlling interest in a multi-million dollar firm?

Trust me, if Caen saw shares being purchased that would potentially over-ride the the majority shareholder, do you think they would sit around and allow it to happen?

Then ** IF ** the shares are acquired, who do you have elected to the board of directors?

Let's be logical about this...
 
I'm not sure if Cean could react if we had enough money to buy 52-61% of Interplay's shares fast enough. Then we fire Lord Cean, Darth Molitor, Interplay's entire marketing department, and every other moron that brought down the company that we can fire before that can "remedy" the situation.

As for the rest, well, I'm not sure yet, but we'll manage.
 
Oh Christ, that's truly hilarious. Thank you RPGCODEX.


Now about this share buying. I'm sure they have XX numbers of shares, but then I would imagine they also have options for xxx more, equity holding companies that have a share (granted, no where near majority), are concerned about their profits.

Do you honestly think they'll stand by and let a bunch of disparate, angry gamers buy out their company that they have significant investment in?

I think you have to be realistic, about 1) A companys desire to resist a hostile takeover (which this would definitely classify, on numerous levels 2) the willingess of it's shareholders to sanction such, and 3) the capabilities of those trying to acquire the firm.

You know, IP could just declare Chap 11 bankruptcy, get protection from it's creditors, and freeze all trading of its shares.

Trust me, I want FO3 as much as anyone, but some of these wild assed schemes really don't need to raise the hopes of people who don't know any better.
 
At six cents a share, I doubt anyone is too worried that a hostile takeover would lower the value of their investment. We can't really fuck it up much more than it already is. And I believe we are mostly in agreement that FO:POS will likely bomb, which is quite likely to drive the stock down even more. I'm aware it's not a simple matter, but some of you are overblowing the technical details (for one, it's not exactly a multimillion dollar corporation, IIRC, they barely have a million on hand, and much more than that in debt.) when, unless by some miracle, FO:POS is a genuine blockbuster, their only real assets are going to be a few licenses. Given that FO3 was apparantly cancelled without Titus going into an uproar, obviously they don't think the FO license is worth a whole heckuva lot. Hence I don't buy that Titus wouldn't sell. Given that Titus and IPLY were recently suing the crap out of each other, they might even be eager to sell.

All this would be dependent upon FO:POS bombing, and thus IPLY stock going from its current dismal value of six cents a share down even further (fractional cents?) anyway, so at the moment it's purely theorhetical. And yes, I'm aware people have brought up the subject before, however on those occassions IPLY wasn't so FUBAR'd financially that even non-accountants could look at their financials and whistle appreciatively at how fucked the company is.
 
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