of course it'll suck, it's a mmorpg after all.

Fallout Online wont have a backwards design paradigm. They only just realised that moveing from one end of the planet to the other shouldn't take 3 hours... (it should take 45 minuets with some bus rides instead... sigh).

I hope Interplay stops pulling a Necron and finally dies once and for all after this lawsuit.  They're the ones holding onto exclusive publishing rights for FreeSpace and refusing to sell despite it being a dead IP, ironically mainly because of them, and if Interplay kicks it then THQ might be able to buy up the rights and get the guys at Volition back to work on FreeSpace 3.

However much I dislike the direction they took the Fallout story (no real drugs, no pimping your wife, a much more PG feel than FO 1 and 2) part 3 is still a really good game, and interplay really screwed the current owner of the license. I can't in good conciseness play FOO, as it would be like putting money against the FO license.

I'd like to hope and pray that a MMORPG of Fallout would be cool, but, I'm highly sceptical of anything with the letters "MMO" attached to it these days. Cross your fingers and hope for the best.....but expect the worste. *crosses fingers*

Interplay sold the rights of the franchise to Bethesda with one provisio; they maintained rights to develop and launch a FO based MMO.

But they had to have started development on it before x date (I forget when exactly). They didn't though; they started after and Beth contested them on it. Interplay claims they did and took shots of models and things supposedly relating to the MMO project, but I think were later found to be from another or earlier game altogether or something. lol

I forget the exact specifics; but I'm curious to see whether this'll see the light of day or not.

MMO=Monthly Subscription Fees.

I personally don't like the concept of paying for a game every month after you've bought it...

I mean, other games that have an online mode don't charge you (unless it's on Xbox 360 or apparently soon PS3. Go PC gaming!). Call me cheapskate, but it just doesn't seem right to charge you for a game after purchase, even if it is "Massively Multiplayer"

Its not hard to make a better game than Warhammer Online (for a talented development studio).

So its not going to be better than WAR then...

Just me, but Fallout seems like a single player RPG experience. Roll in coop maybe, but why?

My experience with MMO has been good, but you know why? I tend to run lone wolf in any MMO. If I join a guild it is always a guild of mostly lone wolf players. The value of a MMO to me is a well-maintained game where I only have to worry about having a client on my disk.

Play a lot of WoW early on. Got my fill of raiding in those early days. My most recent return to WoW was over a year ago, started a Night Elf Hunter, got him up to level 71 in two months, elite flying mount, not rich and famous, but rich anyway. Never grouped, never ran an instance. Found a nice guild of like-minded players. Lots of fun chatting. Good folk.

I have 7 classes fully leveled and equipped, all their primary skills and such, in Guild Wars. Not rich and famous there either, but rich! I still go my weekly round of activities. Great game for a lone wolf now that they have the hero and henchman system fine tuned.

Guild Wars 2 is looking very good so far. That is the only MMO I really look forward to, and I am looking forward to it a lot!

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/

But the Fallout motif as the basis for a MMO? Somehow to me it doesn't really seem to fit. I do like Fallout, but I do not see myself playing a MMO version.