Looks like Bethesda, the grumpy, fun-stealing geezer can’t stop the colorful, skateboard-riding radical dude developer Masthead from creating Fallout Online, an upcoming MMO being published by Interplay.
Bethesda has attempted, for the second time to stop Fallout Online from seeing the light of day. This is due to the fact that Bethesda has claimed that Interplay did not comply with their contractual obligations when buying the Fallout intellectual property. Bethesda tried to get a temporary restraining order signed, but was denied on the 21st.
It might have passed, should Bethesda find a way to prove that the Fallout MMO would irreparably damage the company, which was nearly impossible with Bethesda being the industry giant and media darling that they are.
The legal battle is far from over, but it seems that Fallout Online will not be going down without a fight.
med-x
October 19, 2011 at 11:15 PMnot really interested in an interplay MMO after how lackluster i found new vegas. I’ll be waiting on bethesdas fallout 4 with their new engine from skyrim.
joel
December 26, 2011 at 3:13 AMwell as i love bethesda, il go for them… besides online sounds like a bad idea
Dune44
January 8, 2012 at 2:15 AMI fell in love with Fallout 3, and went back and played the other fallout games after buying them from steam.
I love fallout, and I love fallout for what it is, and that’s a very large Campaign, not an online game.
Whtzombie
January 23, 2012 at 9:45 AMI am befuddled at Bethesda’s resistance. An mmo is the logical next step for the franchise. Crafting, exploration, pvp, pve, free and bought content? Done right it could not only rock but make Bethesda an wad of dough.
Keep up the fight guys!
david ewins
January 27, 2012 at 2:42 AMI cant believe you guys wouldnt have a few trusty side kicks to go goul hunting with, whats the world comin to these days, online would be amazing, ive played fallout since the begining and ill be there to the end, Good job bethseda but im all for online
VaultDweller13
April 10, 2012 at 8:41 PM@Whtzombie: Yes a Fallout MMO would make Bethesda a lot of money… If Bethseda made it. Interplay has the rights to it however.
I would love to see a Fallout MMO as well, but I don’t want Interplay anywhere near that project. I signed up for the newsletter that they put out for FO:Online and eveything I saw coming from Interplay was only slightly more than nothing. A few screens of generic models walking around on flat plain dirt, and a short movie clip of a tv and playing cards. That’s ALL they came up with in over a year of development? Forget Interplay, they will put out a terrible game, if they even put one out at all.
Bethesda has done amazing work with the Fallout franchise, especially considering the direction that Interplay was taking it. Yes FO 1 & 2 were amazing, but go and play FO:BOS for the play station. That was the future of the series if Interplay kept the license. B is in the right here, and I wish that Interplay would just step aside gracefully, but it’s clear that they won’t. Interplay knows they are sitting on a gold mine but they don’t have the resources anymore to do anything with it. They are doing th absolute bare minimum (and most of the time not even that) to keep the license in their control in an attempt to squeeze as much money out of Bethesda as they can. B needs to just nuke Interplay with lawyers and lawsuits until the company finally dies. That’s about the only way a Fallout MMO is going to get made at this point.