If you enjoy RPG’s at all you know that the Fallout franchise is one of the biggest titles in the genre. Fallout 3 one many game of the year awards and New Vegas was not a disappointment either. Well for a while now there has been a dispute between Bethesda and Interplay about a Fallout MMO and who would create it. Originally when the argument first arose it was settled that Interplay was to have a 30 million dollar budget to create a game by April 2009 but the deadline was not reached (at least by Bethesda’s standards) and the game went back into the depths of the unknown. Many of you Fallout fans had probably already given up on the possibility of there ever being a Fallout MMO as these things tend to drag on until the end of time, but there is great news! Bethesda has announced that they have received all the rights to develop a Fallout MMO and by holiday season next year Bethesda will own the entire franchise.
The Fallout MMO May Finally Be Brought Into This World
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While you could take it this way I personally have a different view of what this means.
If anything this news means there is less chance of a Fallout MMO, Bethesda acquired these rights to stop anyone else making a Fallout MMO, not because the want to make one themselves. I could be wrong of course but Bethesda have not exactly been known for anything other than single player games and at least Interplay did express an interest in making the MMO. All Bethesda have done is stop Interplay doing that.
You could be quite right here and it also begs the question of would it be right to actually release a new MMO into an already swelled marketplace? There’s an even greater number coming out this year and unless they had dramatic changes to the existing MMO formula I doubt it would see a sharp uptake in players. Perhaps it would be best to keep the focus on Fallout being a singeplayer game. Would be fun with co-op though and the same for Skyrim to be honest.
Well they were actually working on an MMO for fallout before this whole dispute happened so…it seems like they would. It would be nice to have a new original game though.