Company News Herve Caen finally packs it in - Interplay IPs to be sold off

[Repulsive]

Still have huge respect for Interplay, fuckers delivered some great shit.

 

[commie]

Freespace was good. Remember a mission in the 1st or second game when the fleet was escaping through a jumpgate or something and I was dicking around until the admiral started broadcasting this message thanking everyone they were leaving behind for their sacrifice. Had to afterburn my way to the gate and just made it as he finished his speech. Good times.

Also I'd pay $9.99 for a new battlechess game. Maybe.

Freespace, especially Freespace 2, is amazing, but the IP really isn't that valuable except for Kickstarter brand-awareness, and you could always just call it the "spiritual successor to Freespace" and achieve the same result. The game's greatness lay in its engine, its art direction, its mission design, and (to some degree) its writing/delivery. All of these things could be replicated in another IP. Freespace's lore is pretty goofy and generic and easy to replicate.

As I understand it, the real problem with Freespace 2 is that it was just so good that there wasn't anywhere for future games in that genre to go to improve upon it.

Freespace is more about Volition and almost everyone that made Freespace 2 is still there but under the boot of Deep Silver.Unless they decide to make a Freespace type game, then any other 'Freespace' brand would just be an empty one just like 'Fallout' is now.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

The way inxile is heading, I think renaming themselves to Interplay is an appropriate move.

What's wrong with inxile? Haven't been following the news so I don't know.

 

[Klarion]

The way inxile is heading, I think renaming themselves to Interplay is an appropriate move.

What's wrong with inxile? Haven't been following the news so I don't know.

They said they'll put Torment out on consoles too... Oh, the horror! It can only mean one thing, fate of inXile is sealed. They're as good as dead.

That's what's wrong. In the mind of your average Codexer, of course.

 

[AArmanFV]

The way inxile is heading, I think renaming themselves to Interplay is an appropriate move.

What's wrong with inxile? Haven't been following the news so I don't know.

They are going to make a film division called inXile films.

 

[Metro]

Inb4 THQ Nordic Interplay.

 

[Bubbles]

THQ InterNordic

 

[DarkArcher]

This type of thing is long over due. At this point it is also highly questionable how valuable any of that IP is. I'm sure they want somebody to buy the whole thing rather than 1 or 2 titles. I'm betting THQ Nordic or Paradox snaps some up...unless the asking price is too crazy.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

Maybe Codex should buy one? This is a desperate sale, so some of those titles may be cheap.

 

[Sensuki]

Grab Sacrifice and flip it to Brian Fargo for a profit

(before Brother None reads this newspost anyway, lmao)

 

[Azrael the cat]

Didn't Interplay still have a few bits of Fallout IP, that Herve found behind the dumpster and tried to flog into Fallout Online? Is there any of that IP left?

I'm thinking, like, rights to use of 'random NPC #451', or 'rejected Fallout logo design' bits and pieces. It would be cool for Codex to pass the hat around and buy an utterly useless, but genuine, piece of Fallout IP.

 

[Jaesun]

Didn't Interplay still have a few bits of Fallout IP, that Herve found behind the dumpster and tried to flog into Fallout Online? Is there any of that IP left?.

No. Even when they sold the Fallout rights, Interplay WAS still allowed to do the Fallout Online. But of course they fucked that all up. r00fles!

 

[Severian Silk]

Didn't Interplay still have a few bits of Fallout IP, that Herve found behind the dumpster and tried to flog into Fallout Online? Is there any of that IP left?

I'm thinking, like, rights to use of 'random NPC #451', or 'rejected Fallout logo design' bits and pieces. It would be cool for Codex to pass the hat around and buy an utterly useless, but genuine, piece of Fallout IP.

All their remaining Fallout rights expired.

 

[Jedi Master Radek]

All their remaining Fallout expired.

Fixed that for you!

 

[abnaxus]

 

[thesheeep]

Oh haha, he just told me it's fine! You see? Herve did nothing wrong!

https://mega.nz/#!R8RUHTqK!t5CedI6c-PVPY0MRqxX50EWe7THqxcq0UXy1RRWGvy0
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By0hZJzkirJPYmlaRV9GTU5OTFk/view

Holy crap, that reads like an unholy manifesto of franchise rape...

 

[ROARRR]

Codex wants to sacrifice some bugs to get sacrifice?

 

[Bumvelcrow]

Interplay have the IP rights to Cauldron and Barbarian and still think they can make money out of them? That's the long game right there.

At the risk of sounding like an old fart, back in my day those were just called 'games' and having made some money out of 'selling' the game they would go on to make a new 'game' with new 'ideas'.

TL;DR: Fargo should totally buy the corpse of Interplay, sack everyone at inXile and start again with a new kickstarter. That would be hilarious.

 

[MurkyShadow]

Leading video game software developer, publisher, and licensor, Interplay Entertainment Corp.

They sure ARE leading. But in which role, that stays to be determined by the humble spectator.

RPG Codex should probably buy one of the properties.

You must be thinking of Dark Alliance, right? An all time codex favourite.

No, but seriously, that'd be something to behold.

 

[Lady_Error]

So Dragon Wars is up for sale too? That way Burger Becky can get rid of the stupid Dragons of the Rip title.

 

[Forest Dweller]

The way inxile is heading, I think renaming themselves to Interplay is an appropriate move.

What's wrong with inxile? Haven't been following the news so I don't know.

They raped us.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Some of those properties, man.

American Bull Rider. :kwafuckyeah:

 

[thesheeep]

Sure, let's buy that one and make a gay cowboy RPG.
Cooperate with the creator(s?) of Bastard Bonds and we might get something epic.

 

[himmy]

That Prehistorik franchise.

 

[Infinitron]

Some nice comments here: https://www.facebook.com/brian.fargo/posts/10153863146542196?