Fallout: POS discussion on Interplay forums = BANNED!

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Roshambo

Antediluvian as Feck
Spotted at DAC, Interplay tries to take the cover-up of the game one step further to try and hide it from their investors:

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Interplay started the Fo:Bos forum:
You ruined it by your assaults on Interplay employees and bashing at Fo:Bos

Interplay allowed you to post your questions/comments about Fo:Bos here in the Interplay Feedback forum:
You ruined it by your assaults on Interplay employees and Fo:Bos.

You flamed, bashed, insulted everyone that was even slightly interested in Fo:Bos.
You've had you time. We've given you the time to talk about Fo:Bos in a sensible and intelligent manner. You blew it.

Every Fo:Bos thread will be deleted and any negative comments on FO:BoS and every insult against Interplay will get you banned from the forum, permanently.

There will be no more discussion about Fo:Bos untill Interplay decides otherwise.
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It's also funny to note that the really bad stuff occured not when most of the Fallout fan community already said their piece (including an eloquent thread by myself that was deleted when I raised design points about the title and press release, interview). The really bad stuff happened after the trailer and more info was released (IGN or otherwise), then a huge number came out from everywhere to voice their displeasure.

Yes, release a crappy trailer and then ban the negative feedback. I guess that is one way of trying to deny the fact that the game's design ist...oh, I don't know...NOT LIKED?

Go go Interplay! I think you blew it when you not only tried for this pig in a poke, but also lied a number of times, and then also went into your silence campaigns to slow the negative reactions. There was a good number of calm, rational discussions, some of which went "missing" because they apparently hit too close to home (we all know how the Interplay mods love to make posts vanish silently). But when the negative reactions came from widespread sources, they locked the F:POS forum. When the general feedback forum became filled with F:POS topics, well, here goes the complete hush.

Heh, Derek Smart would just flame you. It's somewhat amusing to see Interplay go for new lows.
 
Interplay starts to act like the Enclave: Shut up or we'll gas you with FEV.
Let's hope they're not thinking: Shut up or there will be no Fallout3.
 
i love this stuff. people are going postal on Interplay, Fallout fans, game reviewers, RPG lovers and beta testers are burying the game over and over, bad criticisms are coming from everywhere...Fallout BOS has become a MAJOR flop, a failure of failures, before it's even finished. i can imagine the embarassment on Interplay, the panic and inability to hide the disgrace from the investors. this latest attempt to keep the community quiet just shows how desperate they are. now it is quite likely that FoBOS will never be released at all - not even a desperate company like IPLY would invest more money into a project that is a 100% failure. let's just keep our fingers crossed, hope they scrap their semi-finished product and finally fire that dumbass Chuck before he embarasses them even further. death to FOBOS, freedom to Fallout! end fascism! gegen IPLY!
 
The best part is they, the moderators, even invited Fallout Enforcer posting on the general Interplay forum. They said it was "okay" there. That lasted all of a few days, didn't it?

They just need to accept the fact this title pisses off a lot of people. Covering up that fact by banning anyone that speaks out against Interplay will just piss off more people. Given Interplay's financial situation, pissing off consumers is about the dumbest thing you can do.
 
I wonder...

I wonder... if that leak about a console FO, FO Fantasy, wasn't a trial balloon.

It's burst on release "could" have warned of foul weather ahead.

And no one at I'play seemed to care, or notice.

Professionalism "could" have sprayed a sugar coating of MacroFlash eye candy, but it all dribbled out in a disasterous dissarray.

A groomed mod versed in the FO bible could have fronted a pitch.

If the 'over the top' attitude of 'some' of the concept art was really visible in the actual game. If they ripped imagery, (e.g. power armor)
from all FO's, and patched together a coherent FO collage. If... if...if...

....but it all dribbled out.....

4too
 
Fallout Fantasy was an internal codename for Lionheart indeed. Well, unless people lied from IPLY which is entirely possible too.

It got confused with FO:BOS about 1 or 2 years ago, even though the project supposedly was ditched since then. Though again these might be lies. Either way it was picked up and we have FO:POS all over again and it sucks, just as the original Fallout Fantasy news posted by, back then, Killian.
 
Roshambo said:
Yes, release a crappy trailer and then ban the negative feedback. I guess that is one way of trying to deny the fact that the game's design ist...oh, I don't know...NOT LIKED?
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They aren't denying that the game design is not liked, they are trying to deny that they suck.
 
red said:
Fallout Fantasy was an internal codename for Lionheart indeed. Well, unless people lied from IPLY which is entirely possible too.

It got confused with FO:BOS about 1 or 2 years ago, even though the project supposedly was ditched since then. Though again these might be lies. Either way it was picked up and we have FO:POS all over again and it sucks, just as the original Fallout Fantasy news posted by, back then, Killian.
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I find it a little flakey that they claim that Fallout Fantasy is Lionheart when the description Killian was given is identical to Fallout Enforcer.
 
Company makes game. People hate game. Company stops conversation of own game on their own forums because people hate game. Company blames people for hating game and then claims that game sucks only because people hate it. Company then blames people for sucky game. The result is that in some bizarre and weirdly twisted way, it's all our own fault.

So who here swallows that?
 
Saint_Proverbius said:
I find it a little flakey that they claim that Fallout Fantasy is Lionheart when the description Killian was given is identical to Fallout Enforcer.
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Yeah I know that. But assuming Killzig's source knew about FO:POS and not about Lionheart, yet had heard about Fallout Fantasy by some people around him and of course knew about Fallout itself, it's quite possible that said source linked FF to FO:POS when it in fact wasn't. Obviously his source explained exactly FO:POS and it is possible the project was cancelled say, until RLH and BG:DA were in the "bag" as much as RLH can be in the "bag"; only to have the idea reopenned again then since they had more resources.

I mean to the wigs it probably makes sense to assign Chuck the game seeing as he's already a console developer. And it makes sense to recycle the BG:DA engine since it's already finished and only modifications need to be applied to it. So to them it would make sense to have delayed the production of it until both these things were available.
 
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