Interplay still alive

Mr. Teatime · Post by **Mr. Teatime** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:26 am

[Company -> Update]

Luke Haase has emailed one of the people on the <a href="http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boar ... 29">Raging Bull forums</a>. In <a href="http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boar ... 1095">this thread</a>, frymuchan pastes an email he recieved:
 
 <blockquote>Most of what you're asking about is hypothetical, and nothing I can really
 officially comment on. You're right...things are strange with no offices or
 employees or web site...and clearly things cannot go on like this
 indefinitely. However, the two recent announcements, along with management's
 work underway now, provide at least some reason to believe things will
 change somewhat soon. The definition of "soon" is what is debatable.
 
 As I am saying far too often the past few months, sorry I cannot be more
 helpful or specific</blockquote>
 
 Why won't they die?
 
 EDIT by Saint_Proverbius: <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=IPLY.OB&d=v1">IPLY.OB</a> is still only 3.5 cents per share, even after getting the ph4t ch3ck from <A href="http://www.bethsoft.com">Bethesda</A>. So, HAH! HAH!
 
 Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.nma-fallout.com/">NMA</A>

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:41 pm

Conspiracy to lead us into buying shares and make the prices go up.

Post by **King of Creation** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 2:36 pm

I'll tell you what's hypothetical: Interplay existing.
They need to face the facts, and come to terms with there death.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 2:53 pm

I don't think it has anything to do with not wanting to face the facts, but mostly about some investors trying to make their investements less shitty.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:25 pm

It's the typical zombie movie plot:

Interplay becomes the undead and finds a victim in Bethesda. They bite Bethesda and then Bethesda becomes undead too. All the while the Caen brothers are moaning, "Brainssss, must.....eat.....brainsss....."

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 5:14 pm

More like: Liccccenssssssssesssssssss... Mussst.. eeeeat.. Liccccensssssessssss..

I doubt the Caen bros know what a brain is.

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 9:53 pm

Saint_Proverbius wrote:More like: Liccccenssssssssesssssssss... Mussst.. eeeeat.. Liccccensssssessssss..

I doubt the Caen bros know what a brain is.

Damn, I was gona post something similar

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:53 am

Susan is right, though. These guys are clinging to every bit of news and saying it's a good thing for the company, even when it's not. Hell, they were saying that when Atary yanked the D&D distribution rights from Interplay, it was a good thing because Interplay must have SOLD them or something. In reality, Interplay just didn't pay Atari so Atari pulled them.

I don't see how they could say there's any gold lining to any of this considering IPLY still lacks office space.

Jimmyjay86 · Post by **Jimmyjay86** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:44 am

Are there any guesses as to how much Bethesda might have paid for the Fallout license? Was it enough to help Interplay manage any of their outstanding debts?

Post by **Retlaw83** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 5:34 am

All the news stories say the amount is "undisclosed".

Perhaps someone could ask one of the Bethesda devs about a ballpark figure?

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:48 am

Whatever it was, proably wasnt more than a mil at most.

Viperblood · Post by **Viperblood** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 6:55 am

Is the INTERPLAY really that bad, and what about that new group ( beshedavsomething...) what can we expect of their work of fallout 3 , ( please to meet you all, VIPERBLOOD the best of the raiders is here... at least for now)

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:03 am

Interplay is even worse than we say.
Theyve shit on the FO2 name twice.

1-Craptics
2-POS

Viperblood · Post by **Viperblood** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 7:30 am

what do you mean by POS? And what about fallout 3 (if interplay is out of the game), it will have the same felling of fall 1 and 2
i hope fallout 3 could mix FOT strategic with fallot 1 looks.

Radoteur · Post by **Radoteur** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 9:58 am

Who is this SDF and why does he sound like a SDF?

PsychoSniper · Post by **PsychoSniper** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:25 am

Viperblood wrote:what do you mean by POS?

Fallout: Peice of shit. A Console based FO spinoff that Interplay lost a shitload of money on.

Viperblood wrote:And what about fallout 3 (if interplay is out of the game)

Interplay's canceld Project Van Buren was FO 3. Bethesda Softworks aquited the rights to the Fallout Lisence. Theyre doing FO3.

Viperblood wrote:it will have the same felling of fall 1 and 2

And you know this...... how ? The game is still in fucking pre-production.

Shut the fuck up until you have a FACT to base a FACTUAL argument upon.

Yes we (we being true FO fans) HOPE that FO3 has the same feel of 1 and 2, but its still to early to tell.

Viperblood wrote:i hope fallout 3 could mix FOT strategic with fallot 1 looks.

So you want a realtime shitfest ?

Go get an Xbox and POS, youll have great fun masterbnating to nadia in her thongs.

EDIT

On another note, who thinks 'DAMN!' when reading this threads tittle ?

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:18 pm

How much exactly was that check from Bethesda for anyways?

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:06 pm

PsychoSniper wrote:Whatever it was, proably wasnt more than a mil at most.

I'd say it was at least 5M.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:37 pm

You think it could have been that much? I mean, since FO2, nothing happened to boost the license or anything. It's old now

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Wed Aug 04, 2004 6:14 am

It's still an appealing license, no matter how much shit Interplay managed to drag it through.