Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Fallout
- September 11, 2009 00:00 AM PST
After repeated threats Bethesda has requested legal termination of their licensing agreement with Interplay and a permanent injunction against the manufacture and distribution of all Fallout titles.
Bethesda Softworks has followed through on threats of legal action against Interplay Entertainment Corp. regarding their Fallout trademark agreement in 2007.
One of the few teasers released for the doomed Fallout MMO.
Bethesda purchased the entire Fallout franchise from Interplay but licensed the rights to develop a Fallout MMO back to the original developer with the stipulation that the project be in full development with at least $30 million in funding by April of 2009. As GamePro editor Patrick Shaw reported earlier this year, Bethesda sought legal recourse after their attempts to terminate the license agreement were adamantly disputed by Interplay representatives.
According to a U.S. District Court complaint obtained by Gamasutra, the publishers of Fallout 3 are trying to terminate the Fallout MMO. Furthermore, Bethesda accuses Interplay of trademark infringement and seeks a court injunction against the sale of all Fallout titles (besides Bethesda-developed Fallout 3) whether in retail outlets or digital distribution services like Steam, claiming that Interplay failed to obtain Bethesda's approval prior to marketing the games.
If you never played the original Fallout games be sure to purchase a copy while you still can!
What this means for fans is that the mysterious Fallout MMO (rumored to be codenamed Project V13) will almost certainly be cancelled, dashing any hopes of playing with friends and family in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Worse, distribution of the entire Fallout catalog (pre-Fallout 3) may be frozen for an indeterminate length of time, leaving countless gamers unable to (legally) obtain copies of some of the greatest PC RPG's of all time.
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- Sep 11 2009 at 02:02:53:PM PST
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Either that or it's worded wrong. It's a bit confusing. I'm going on 4 hours of sleep so that could be why it's confusing. Don't mind the dunce writing this comment.
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Any one have frist and secend in your computer. Bethesda will send you a computer virus if you do not removed it from you computer. And that the fact.
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KarlB wrote:
Any one have frist and secend in your computer. Bethesda will send you a computer virus if you do not removed it from you computer. And that the fact.
Where do these people come from! What a load of cr@p! I bought my copies of Fallout 1, 2, and brotherhood of steel (all PC versions) back in 2000 and 2002. If Bethesda ever pulled a stunt like that, they'd be sued so hard we'd never hear from them ever again.
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