Fallout to become MMO? News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
Interplay reckons that flogging some stock will help it finance a 75-million-dollar massively multiplayer game based on the Fallout RPG series.
That's according to a presentation document on the Securities & Exchange Commission website, which outlines the goal of launching the game in Q3 2010, and aims to entice investors.
A Fallout MMO, Interplay says, would appeal by "giving consumers an ongoing virtual experience of today's life as if the Cold War, which lasted for the best part of the second half of last century, had led to a nuclear disaster".
The subscription-based game would cost a lot to make and run though - with a budget that "totals $75,000,000 and will be funded by Interplay, its development and distribution partners" (and the aforementioned whoring of stock).
If things go to plan, Interplay hopes to start production next month - giving it just over three and a half years to get things ready - and then quickly build an audience of one million subscribers in the first year the game's on sale.
Interplay hasn't released any information about the proposal to the press at the moment, or clarified whether the document - filed in late November by the looks of it - got them anywhere. Still, judging by all the "confidential" markers, we expect someone, somewhere is going nuclear, even if it doesn't result in an actual game.
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PearOfAnguish
13/12/06 @ 10:01
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Yes, don't be stupid, Interplay. Fallout only needs to be single-player. It'll cost less to make too.
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This won't have any impact on Fallout 3 will it?
Personally I think if they get this made then it would be quite good, $75m. is a lot of money for a game and by 2010 World of Warcraft will probably be on it's last legs or so good that any other MMO will need to be fecking amazing to stand a chance. |
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Magic Panda
13/12/06 @ 11:53
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The market (me) needs a really good Scifi mmorpg a bit like wow, maybe fps.
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Avenger1324
13/12/06 @ 13:42
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Great idea with only a few big of problems:
Interplay went bust and they held the rights to Fallout. AFAIK you can't claim bankruptcy and just hide your assets to use them later when you think everyones forgotten about them. Interplay sold the rights to Bethesda, who are making Fallout 3. They also have the rights to make more games in the future using the franchise. By 2010 it will be more than 10 years since Fallout 1&2 were released. you've simply left it too long to do something like this. To make a MMO you need a Massive number of people - all the fans of fallout have gone elsewhere because there was nothing suitable. They play other MMO's (if at all) and by 2010 they will have spent so much time playing those and building their characters up they aren't going to want to abandon them for a new unproven game which has no link with the games they loved playing 10-12 years before other than sharing the name. |
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Interplay did go bust, yes, but they didn't go under.
Interplay sold the rights to Fallout single player games, they still hold the IP for the sole purpose of an MMO, as the company believes that running an MMO is the cashcow they need and are betting everything on an IP they people dont want them to have... The project probs wont get finished, or if it does, it will fail and hopefully remove the last of interplay on this earth... My final point is, that Fallout seems to be one of those brands that cant be hurt, Tactics and BOS both stunk and now they are just a fading memory, with people knowing that they were just souless cash ins.... And timing for a Fallout game matters not, all the fans from the original are still around, angry as ever, and many new ones have picked up as Fallout now is one of those PC legendary games...
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Additionally, the Fallout brand isn't only going to appeal to previous Fallout players; surely all gamers can see the appeal of a post-apocalyptic universe? That is, of course, if Fallout is a post-apocalyptic universe - I'm only going on what I can remember from other people, having never played the game.
Bit sad though. Red 5 Studios just opened recently, has secured 18.5 million dollars funding and they're made up of top Blizzard employees and the like. Little annoying to see 75 million go to a half-dead developer to develop a new installment of a half-dead franchise. |
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