Fallout Online Website Arises Amid Legal Battle 85
Rumors of a Fallout MMO have been swirling for years, made all the more credible by hints from the legal battle between Bethesda and Interplay over licensing for the franchise. Now, Interplay has quietly created a teaser website for Fallout Online, offering beta sign-ups. Quoting Massively:
"Currently, there isn't much there, just a brief glimpse at a workshop desk with various Fallout references to the Master, Brahmin, and Nuka-Cola before a form obscures the screen. ... It looks legit, too: Interplay is promoting Fallout Online from their main website, and the new teaser site is indeed registered to Interplay Entertainment Corp."
Re:New MMO's (Score:4, Insightful)
What "precedence" did WoW set for MMO's except make getting to max level easy, and raid content an almost given win even if a few people couldn't play their way out of a tin can?
EQ, UO set precedences, WoW dumbed things down, but has better graphics and youtube rage videos.
Re:New MMO's (Score:4, Insightful)
They did not dumb things down (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:OT: Old school Interplay cred - fail (Score:4, Insightful)
There's no shame in being worse than Planescape Torment. Everything is.
Baldur's Gate was not as good as Fallout either, but still pretty good.
Re:Well... (Score:3, Insightful)
Interplay had some great development houses. The upper-level management of Interplay screwed them, didn't pay their bills and ran into bankruptcy. Those developers have all gone elsewhere. Interplay barely exists in name and is clinging to IP they own. They want to make a comeback, but without good developers they are nothing.
They've been talking Fallout Online for probably 5 years with absolutely nothing to show for it.