Interplay: we have the funding for FOOL

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Coinciding with Bethesda's claims, Interplay has filed a supplemental response to respond to various allegations made by Bethesda in earlier stages of this claim. The key claim, obviously, is that they have indeed obtained all needed funding. The Vault reports on this with additional detail.<blockquote>Interplay satisfied its obligations under Section 2.3 of the TLA through a funding agreement with Interactive Game Group that provided up to $15 million and through a binding letter of intent for development services and subsequent agreement with Masthead Studios that provided approximately $20 million in development services and technology licenses.</blockquote>They state the following on development so far:<blockquote>The people who worked on Fallout Online prior to April 4, 2009 include Jason Anderson, Chris Taylor, Mark O'Green, Serg Souleimann, Kevin Stocker, Marshall Kautz, and the programmers, artists and designers at Masthead Studios whose names are unknown to Interplay. Interplay does not know the total amount of time or monetary resources that has been expended by Masthead since Masthead has not accounted to Interplay as of this date. Interplay has spent in excess of $2,000,000 on development.</blockquote>And from Chesnai's sworn statement (not in NMA's possession):<blockquote>As of April 4, 2009, I2G had, through an affiliate, a line of credit granted by a bank, for an amount not to exceed 10 million Euros. That line was not drawn on April 4, 2009.
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The people who worked on Fallout Online prior to April 4, 2009 include Jason Anderson, Chris Taylor, Mark O'Green, Serg Souleimann, Kevin Stocker, Marshall Kautz, and the programmers, artists and designers at Masthead Studios whose names are unknown to Interplay. Interplay does not know the total amount of time or monetary resources that has been expended by Masthead since Masthead has no accounted to Interplay as of this date. Interplay has spent in excess of $2,000,000 on development.
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Added this to the post since I forgot it first time around for some reason. If Bethesda's lawyers were even remotely competent (they're not), they'd be all over this claim. Interplay claims Masthead's side of it fulfills 20 million of their requirement, yet they have no idea how much Masthead has spent on it or even who is working on it? That's preposterous.
 
This case just gets worse. I don't want either side to win, and neither seem to have a wholly legitimate claim. The side with the most money usually wins, right? So when it all comes down to it, Bethesda will probably win by throwing more money at the situation. Ugh.
 
This is really a lesser of two evils battle, and to me Bethesda is the least bad option. At least they have the money and manpower to build a full fledged MMO that has a chance for success. If they get Obsidian to do most of the work it might actually be decent (but buggy).

If Interplay does it I see no way this turns into anyone will want to play. Its not like slapping Interplay on the box makes it the spawn of the first two games.
 
Brother None said:
Interplay claims Masthead's side of it fulfills 20 million of their requirement, yet they have no idea how much Masthead has spent on it or even who is working on it? That's preposterous.
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That's what happens when the money you're using is tied to a particular country's mafia - you don't necessarily know where the money is going :wink:. Mostly joking, although Bulgaria is considered the most corrupt country in the EU.
 
It owuld depend on wheter they use a inhouse engine or an outer one that they don't have experience using.

MMO's suck anyways.
 
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