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That sucks. Much sympathy to the devs. I hope they have new jobs to go to.

I don’t understand why they’d shut down BIS.. some of those PC games have sold more than a lot of console titles.. it’s a sad day to see BIS gone, and I can only hope that someone else is allowed to pick up the lines and carry on.

One of the posts in that thread said Interplay stock is now trading at $0.07. That probably has something to do with it - there’s a certain amount of expectation that Interplay is going to fold soon. It’s all a crying shame, and has come about because of sustained mismanagement by Interplay, not because they weren’t making good games.

So why not sell off BIS rather than dissolving it. Surely they’d get more money now then a fire sale if they go bankcrupt.

Well, this sucks.

(Gabe Newell)

allie’s in mourning

I pitty the fool that upsets allie.

:)

watch it, Booker.

Don’t cry say bye

BIS

What BS

Black Isle Studio

In remembrance

Not for Rembrants

Damn fine games

Financial gains

Cut them down

Ubi Soft

Not Lara Croft

Peace out to da boyz at BIS ,V,,

lol go the resident rhymer! ;0

You rock man!

http://www.nma-fallout.com/…

This thread up at No Mutants Allowed is well worth a look. A couple of screenshots from Fallout 3 (aka Van Buren) if you can take it :(

Quite a few BIS employees also give their 2 cents, which is quite informative. My heart is still broken.

I read that entire forum thread, and omg, what a bunch of tools the regular posters are - the board admin is the worst. Horrible stuff. The dev comments are interesting though.

Heh Monty, very true. I gave up about page 8 when I realised the rest of the thread was most likely comprised of the usual speculation on the sexual orientation of the various posters ;)

Are you implying that monty is gay?

I for one want some decent post apocalypse rpg game brought out, if not fallout at least in the spirit of it. Im sick of all these stupid medievil magic cruddy rpg games they’re bringing out. Give me a mini gun anyday.

Well, my keep-your-mouth-shut-after-employment period has long since passed, so I can happily say: Interplay are a bunch of scum sucking pigs, and Microforte aren’t the only studio they have ripped off. I know of at least one other high-profile studio who are mighty pissed off with them, and with good reason.

As usual, it’s the gamer that loses out. :(