Fallout Online seeking beta sign-ups

By Tom Bramwell Published 17 June, 2010

Interplay MMO taking shape?

Interplay's massively multiplayer Fallout title now has a website and that website is encouraging people to sign up for a beta test.

Check out the Fallout Online website if you want to do that, which you probably do.

Publisher Interplay has had legal and financial difficulties for some time - perhaps the latter explains why its website is hosted on a 56k modem - but hopefully this latest news is an indication that it's moving in the right direction.

For those confused, Bethesda Softworks owns the Fallout IP having picked it from Interplay's partially exposed bones some time ago, but it leased it back to the veteran publisher for use in its MMO.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • SAMagic #1 2 years ago

    perhaps the latter explains why its website is hosted on a 56k modem
    Wait, what? Are they still operating in cardboard boxes?

    Edit: What am I getting voted down for? Forgive me for suggesting that operating an international gaming franchise's online game website with crap technology is piss poor. The whole effort reeks of desperation on Interplay's part.
    Edited by SAMagic at 17/06/10 @ 14:36

  • schnide #2 2 years ago

    My arse this is ever going to get off the ground, they're just covering themselves legally.

    When you go to that website (which is fallout-on-line.com rather than fallout-online.com as it should be) even the title bar says..

    "Fallout? Online"

    !

  • jmcflash #3 2 years ago

    That is a painfully slow website...

  • Paperghost #4 2 years ago

    absolutely terrible signup page - they must have known interest would be huge, so they go and put together a very long flash file complete with music to slow the entire process to a crawl (takes *forever* to load). been trying since yesterday, can't be bothered now. you know what works for a signup page?

    a form and a submit button, minus all the other junk.

  • geeza2020 #5 2 years ago

    Wow that is one painfully slow website. It seems like whoever made it didnt have the daddies boy perk!

  • bratmandu #6 2 years ago

    Neeeever gonna happen.

  • FortysixterUK #7 2 years ago

    I was interested until I went to the website...and saw a black spinning LP above the page loading progress bar that took ages...I gave up at 5%.
    I did note the the Fallout logo was more akin to the old style Fallouts than Fallout 3....is it going to be an isometric turn based game online ?
    I ask here simply because I'm not waiting for an archaic webpage to load up.

  • Amblin #8 2 years ago

    Interplay, might as well run the forums by post, that company had such great IP and yet has fallen so far. Zero infrastructure, the site etc run via a laptop in a net cafe from what I can see. SO SLOW!

    Fallout online is going to be an uphill struggle.

    Fingers crossed though, I remember Freespace, and obviously Fallout 1 + 2.

  • Aradiel #9 2 years ago

    As others have said, the site was slow. I eventually signed up, but I don't fancy my chances: It took ages to load the animation, then literally minutes to load the list of countries. I submitted before it even loaded the list of years for my birthdate.

  • Sharzam #10 2 years ago

    Lets be positive maybe Interplay are just under some serious heavy load and really really popular that there new website cant take it. Which means they will make laods cash and be one of the biggest british game companys.

    Or

    They are struggling and this is the last gasp of air.

  • LOLLERS #11 2 years ago

    Worked fine for me, signed up in 1 min.

  • gjgjg #12 2 years ago

    thats not a slow website, <a href="http://www.dannycarey.org" >THIS is a slow website
    Edited by gjgjg at 17/06/10 @ 23:55

  • WinterSnowblind #13 2 years ago

    Yesterday the site was painful, I'm guessing it was the load of people trying to sign up.
    This morning, it loaded up in seconds.

  • poopmonster #14 2 years ago

    It's Fallout Play-By-Mail!

  • Silvervein #15 2 years ago

    Fallout by email? Actually if done right it could be interesting, I think...Laser squad worked in that setting, why not fallout?

    And I'm not talking about fallout, not that bastard child of wolfenstein and postal that bethesda squeezed out.
    Edited by Silvervein at 18/06/10 @ 16:17

  • Blacknimbus #16 2 years ago

    Took me about 2-3 minutes to get through and sign up.