I know I’m wasting valuable sleep time on this crap, but it really irks me when people fail to realize that Hervé Caen just sucks. You should not be rooting for his team. It’s sad that his team happens to be Interplay, which is a team that used to be great, but he ruined it, and he ruined Fallout. If Fallout falls back in his hands he will just ruin it all over again.

First off, the lawsuit is not lost. Far from it.

Second, and WAY more importantly: This is not the same Interplay that made Fallout 1 and 2. This is the post Titus buy out Interplay, the people who cancelled the Interplay Fallout 3 (now known as “Van Buren”) to begin production on Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, which of course never got released. There’s a very good reason why Herve Caen sold Fallout to Bethesda, he was looking for some capital to disguise from the fact that he’s run Interplay into the ground. There’s also a reason he’s now in legal troubles post the Fallout franchise sale, because he’s an asshole.

I hope that Bethesda and Interplay work out this mess amicably, mostly because I don’t want Herve Caen to be back in control of the Fallout franchise. And because, my massive loathing of Herve Caen aside, I really want to play Fallout: Online.

“immediate, substantial, and irreparable harm.”

That’s you who did that, Bethesda, not Interplay.
Fucking dumb asses company…

Actually it’s not a “Fail” for Bethesda. If you look at wikipedia for “Fallout” it’ll actually mention, at least last time I read it (one year ago), that there were three primary people that fathered fallout and it’ll discuss what movies and other games inspired it. Then if you wikipedia those three people or just do some general googling around for them, you will find that each and every single one of them found that Interplay was poorly managed. They used to make best to see just how many years or months it would take for Bethesda go bankrupt.

This really doesn’t surprise me at all. Interplay was not a well maintained company and the fact that they stayed open long enough to come out with Fallout Tactics, Blauders Gate II, and the much hated “Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel” for the PS2 is actually quite an achievement for a company that was doomed to fail due to poor management.

Yeah, right!