[Stryke 9]

No more Fallout 3.

Bloody typical that they'd can the one series in the genre I find even marginally playable.

[Kamikaze]

I'm thinking Interplay has absolutely nothing to redeem itself with now.

[Ashrak]

interplay SUCKS!

[Thorn]

someone get me the coordinates for the Interplay offices... I've got an old Russian missile with their name on it..

[Turnsky]

well.. nobody's ever accused interplay of being smart.. but so far, they make my toenails seem like they each have an IQ of 40000 by mere comparison..

[Kamikaze]

Well, it is fact that Black Isle wasn't getting them as much greenbacks as they'd like. CRPGs are a rather niche-genre.

[Impurial]

CRPGs are niche?  Non-open-ended RPGs maybe.

Nonetheless BIS were Quality. Sad to see them go.

[IceFire]

Thing is tho...Interplay has canned most of its games over the last little while.  A game not getting enough greenbacks should in theory be better than not getting any greenbacks at all...just a thought.

[diamondgeezer]

I'll assume we'll not be getting FS3 either, then

[Thorn]

Was it absolutely necessary to mention that DG?

The Interplay execs must be taking from Jack Daniels though...
BIS probably brough them in a lot of money in the past, and had the potential to bring in loads more. More things along the lines of Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, all of that stuff could have if they let them, plus whatever else they might have been cooking up...

[Vilkacis]

Well Baldur's Gate, Fallout, etc... may be good games but did they actually sell that well compared to an average console game? I mean if you were Interplay would you bother to run a PC based developer team if you could have one or two newbie console developers instead who would also bring in more cash?

[Woolie Wool]

I have a feeling Intardplay will not be around much longer. I haven't been monitoring Interplay much, but generally cancelling many products in a short period of time is a sign of big, big problems.

What happens to the FS rights if Interplay goes under?

[karajorma]

Probably nothing considering that they claim not to own them in the first place

[Kazan]

yes the FreeSpace universe copyrights are in de facto abandonment... I should make a formal claim on them and assume the copyrights

[kasperl]

do so be all means, please.

[Liberator]

It appears that Intercrap has joined the ranks of the console zombie and decided to become console centric.  

That leave us with Ubisoft, EA, Sierra and Atari as the major game publishers for the PC and two of those are known to release crap like Britney Spears this or NASCAR that.  

There are so few decent PC games on the horizon, it's kind of depressing.

[Woolie Wool]

Activision and Gathering of Developers publish some PC titles.

I think simulation games and big-name first-person shooters will dominate the PC market for the forseeable future. Simulation games are too complex and have too many controls to work well on consoles and FPSes have a large number of modders who will always be source of profits in the industry.

[Blaise Russel]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
Well, it is fact that Black Isle wasn't getting them as much greenbacks as they'd like. CRPGs are a rather niche-genre.

That, and Interplay messing everything up all the time.

How smart is it to lose the rights to the next big thing that your CRPG development team is working on? 'Cause that's what Interplay did with BIS' Jefferson project. Why, if the idiot who came up with that wonderful idea was here right now, I'd say "Smart move, Captain Fantastic, you certainly can't be outsmarted by a bowl full of three-week-old dead yeast."

But he isn't, so I won't.

[karajorma]

Well if Interplay have given up on Black Isle what's to stop them approaching Wizards of the Coast directly and saying "Hey, we've got a killer half written D&D game for you"?

[Nico]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool
Activision and Gathering of Developers publish some PC titles.

Didn't GoD disappear a couple years ago already?