Legal Battle Over Fallout MMO Continues

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-04-22 22:43
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  The legal battle between Fallout IP holder Bethesda and original creator Interplay rages on, despite a dropped appeal granting false hopes to fans eager for a massively-multiplayer online Fallout title.
  
  Last September, Bethesda, the current owner of the Fallout intellectual property, filed a lawsuit against Interplay, the studio that created Fallout, claiming trademark infringement due to the fact that Interplay did not seek permission to sell The Fallout Trilogy bundle, which featured the original Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics. Bethesda sought to halt the sale of the bundle, while also halting production of a Fallout MMO project Interplay was working on.
  
  Earlier that year Bethesda threatened legal action over the MMO's development, citing an overall lack of progress on Interplay's part.
  
  In December, a U.S. District Court judge rejected Bethesda's request for an injunction against Interplay to halt sale of the Fallout bundle as well as work on the Fallout MMO.
  
  Now Fallout fan site Duck and Cover reports that Bethesda has dropped an appeal against Interplay, suggesting the move might mean the end to Interplay's legal troubles.
  
  Not so says Bethesda's Pete Hines. "That is still ongoing and has not been resolved. It is a minor procedural thing that took place, not a dropping of the lawsuit."
  
  So the lawsuit still lives on, and the future of Interplay's Fallout MMO still hangs in the balance, and at the moment there's no end in sight.
  
  "The bottom line is it's an ongoing legal matter, it's in no way, shape or form done," Hines continued. "We're going to let the process play out in the courts, which is what we've said all along, but beyond that I can't give specifics as to procedures. That's not my domain."

  
  
  Legal Battle Over Fallout MMO Continues - fallout mmo - Kotaku
  
  Wait
  a fallout 3 MMO?
  this is gonna be like that star wars mmo
  
  anyone knows how much fallout 3 costs nowadays?
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-22 22:46
  Bethesda > Interplay
• Piko wrote on 2010-04-23 01:17
  Fallout 3 (and New Vegas) and the rest of the Fallout series are completely different, so Fallout MMO =/= Fallout 3 engine. It probably would use the engine that Interplay has used for the Original Fallout series, which I think was click commands and whatnot.
  
  Go Bethesda. o3o;
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-23 01:29

  Quote from Pikablu;15850:

  Fallout 3 (and New Vegas) and the rest of the Fallout series are completely different, so Fallout MMO =/= Fallout 3 engine. It probably would use the engine that Interplay has used for the Original Fallout series, which I think was click commands and whatnot.
  
  Go Bethesda. o3o;

  
  Ever played the actual fallout, the original, it was horrible for me.
  *Throws away fallout*
  *Buy's Starcraft*
• Clampdown wrote on 2010-04-23 02:27

  Quote from Chocklitshop;15895:

  Ever played the actual fallout, the original, it was horrible for me.
  *Throws away fallout*
  *Buy's Starcraft*

  
  
  interplay didn't make fallout 1 or 2 though, black isle did, interplay just published it.
  
  you should give the original fallout another go, it's very different from fallout 3 but it's still a great RPG.
• Taycat wrote on 2010-04-23 02:29
  I lol'd.
  
  This is so funneh.
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-23 02:30

  Quote from Clampdown;16025:

  interplay didn't make fallout 1 or 2 though, black isle did, interplay just published it.
  
  you should give the original fallout another go, it's very different from fallout 3 but it's still a great RPG.

  
  Oh I didn't mean that interplay made the original fallout, just that it really bore me...Starcraft was fun though...
• Zephyri wrote on 2010-04-23 15:03
  Charmander char MMO char 3. Char, charmander Fallout 3 charchar $20 char Gamestop. Charmander CHAR >O
  
  (I would love a fallout MMO if it were made to be like 3. Which iirc, Fallout 3 is only $20 new at Gamestop. Go get it foos >O)
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-04-23 19:22

  Quote from Zephyri;16416:

  Charmander char MMO char 3. Char, charmander Fallout 3 charchar $20 char Gamestop. Charmander CHAR >O
  
  (I would love a fallout MMO if it were made to be like 3. Which iirc, Fallout 3 is only $20 new at Gamestop. Go get it foos >O)

  
  Huxley is like a fallout 3 mmo.
• Kayate wrote on 2010-04-23 20:25
  wow is this legal battle still going on?
• Osayidan wrote on 2010-04-23 23:08
  How would this work as an MMO?
  I can see an MMO in the fallout universe.
  But I can't see an MMO being "like" fallout. An MMO doesn't allow for the massive amount of freedom a person had in fallout, especially fallout 2 and 3. That freedom is what made the game awesome. If I can't go into a town in the fallout MMO and murder all the NPCs because I had a bad day, then it isn't fallout anymore.
  
  It would be like going to dunbarton and killing simon. No one else would be able to get his clothes.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-04-24 00:27

  Quote from kayate;16614:

  wow is this legal battle still going on?

  
  
  the most entertaining legal battle is ex-lead developers of modern warfare vs. Activision