A while ago, Bethesda sent Interplay to court to stop them from selling the original Fallout trilogy and to stop them from producing a Fallout MMO. How did it all work out? Find out in this article.

Bethesda sent Interplay to court asking that it stops marketing and selling the original Fallout trilogy and to hand over the developing rights and any work done so far on the upcoming MMO spin-off of the Fallout franchise, working title’d Project V13.

Today, court documents reveal that the judge has ruled in the favour of Interplay, allowing them permission to continue developing Project V13, and to continue publishing the original Fallout trilogy, seperately and as a trilogy-pack.

There is no word if  Bethesda will appeal against the decision or not. We at GamesPoint will keep you up-to-date if anything happens.

So what do you think? Comment on it, duders.

This is victory.

Correction: 
epic victory.

 Didn't see that coming.
 
Edit: No sarcasm, really didn't see that coming.

The Fallout 1/2 fanboys are going to have a field day.

"  Didn't see that coming.  Edit: No sarcasm, really didn't see that coming. "

I think Bethesda was being rather childish here. They clearly didn't have rights to the older games, or the MMO. They simply had the rights to make future games in the franchise. No clue what made them think differently.

i wouldn't have thought much of this if there had been proper reason, but apparentaly they thought the fallout 1/2/tactics/Collection stuff was in direct competition with Fallout 3.
 
Really?
 
I'm sure people are gonna drop some legal bullshit on me and how they should've done this and yadda yadda, but you know what?
 
Dick move.

I really hope Bethesda gets their asses sued.

Awesome.   I miss Interplay.
 Fuck Bethesda, Fallout 3 was horrible. 
And for those of you who say otherwise, it's probably because you never played the first two until you heard about the 3rd one.
Back in the day Fallout was THE SHIT.

Bethesda didn't do a good job with fallout 3, so if someone does get confused and buys the older fallout at least they're getting the better game.

I think it's good that the original developers that made Fallout a classic can keep making money on whatever (can't imagian much at all) sales from the first couple games and put it towards an MMo which I'd be very interested in playing.

I'm glad bethesda lost, they are being greedy and the underdog of the case won.

YAAY! this makes me happy, as Beth. has been dicking Interplay around for a long time.    
 
@harrypmgaga: Since you didnt link directly to the article, did it say anything about a ruling on the counter-suit about Beth blocking Interplay's sale of Re-releases of the original games/ the claim beth sent emails to Good Old Games about "interplay no longer having rights to the old fallout games"? 
 
disregard that, i cant read..:(

I thought Fallout 3 was great actually. I missed the original games, so I guess I can't compare, but it looks like Bethesda modernized the series in a great way. 

Wait wait wait, B was suing the original creators? If so, then the phrase "What the fuck?" comes to mind. And the word "Dicks."
 
Meh, I liked Fallout 3, especially with mods.

" Awesome.   I miss Interplay.  Fuck Bethesda, Fallout 3 was horrible.  And for those of you who say otherwise, it's probably because you never played the first two until you heard about the 3rd one. Back in the day Fallout was THE SHIT. "

Totally agree 

 The problem Bethesda had was that, first of all, Interplay did not meet the requirements detailed in the re-licensing deal they made for the MMO. They were supposed to get funding, and line up a developer by a certain date, and they failed to accomplish both. They did manage to find a developer after the deadline, but they still didn't live up to their end of the bargain. As for the Fallout Trilogy bundle, Bethesda's argument is that unsuspecting consumers will be duped into thinking this bundle includes Fallout 1, 2, and 3 (it actually includes 1, 2, and Tactics). They're not claiming that Interplay has no right to sell the Fallout games they created. There are plenty of people out there who never heard of Fallout until #3 came out. Most of them are probably unaware of the other games in the series, and could easily be confused into believing that a "Trilogy" pack includes the latest game. To me it looks an awful lot like Interplay was trying to cash in on the success of the recent game, and it's naive to think that they had no idea that branding their bundle as the "Fallout Trilogy" would be in any way confusing. Maybe Bethesda is being a little unreasonable with their reaction to the whole MMO situation (It doesn't appear that they even bothered to renegotiate the terms), but they're just trying to protect their asset. If they believe that Interplay is not living up to their standards, and thereby harming the fallout name, of course they would want to put a stop to it.

By the way, I'm not saying that Fallout 3 is a superior game to the first 2. I've played all 3 and enjoyed them all. However, as a business owner myself, I can understand the need to protect one's assets. I certainly wouldn't want to hire an independent contractor to do some work for me if I had any indication that they would make me, or my company look bad. Fallout is now Bethesda's IP, and a bad Fallout game, whether it's published by them, or licensed to someone like Interplay, is going to hurt people's opinion of any future Fallout games. Most people don't pay a lot of attention to developers and publishers like we do. They just know the franchise.

" The Fallout 1/2 fanboys are going to have a field day. "

I think it's crazy the amount of name dropping you did in your post. Especially for the minimal worth of content you wrote in the article.

Good on em

"  As for the Fallout Trilogy bundle, Bethesda's argument is that unsuspecting consumers will be duped into thinking this bundle includes Fallout 1, 2, and 3 (it actually includes 1, 2, and Tactics). They're not claiming that Interplay has no right to sell the Fallout games they created.  "

You could make an argument that the MMO will weaken the brand, but preventing sales of 1, 2 and Tactics was just petty. It says the names of the games ON THE BOX, so what Bethesda's really saying is they think Fallout 3 fans are utterly stupid.

It's equally possible that Interplay is full of shit, seeing as how it's been a bankrupt joke run by crooks for a while now.

Crooks don't go bankrupt, character.

"Crooks don't go bankrupt, character. "

Now watch as Interplay take 5 years to actually finish it.

Interplay developed the first two, didn't they? If so, they deserved to win. You can't sue a company for selling a product they made.

" @ryanwho said:

"Crooks don't go bankrupt, character. "

Good ones don't. "

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Apparently they claimed that people would get confused between the original Fallout series and the new Fallout 3-style series. "