January 3, 2012 – MMO Fallout

What a poor time to schedule a “Why Aren’t You Playing” article.

Due to restructuring of our activities and change of the server location, the Earthrise servers will be going offline for 1 week between 8th of December and 16th of December. During that time you will not be able to login and play the game. All accounts will be compensated with added value to their free to play status when the game goes free to play in 2012.

It appears that when Masthead Studios took down Earthrise to migrate servers, they also decided to throw in some upgrades. As a result, the servers are still down with an estimated relaunch of “when it’s done.” Possibly January. Hopefully January.

At this point, as I had posted previously when progression has been made and it is decided to release the game in a more playable mode it will be posted. The negativity in the comments do not speed the process up at all. We do applogize for the delay but more effort is being made to full polish the build before any release.

Oops. In the meantime, is anyone up for a game of M2?

(Source: Earthrise Forums)

It’s funny how some banners look better in your mind before you put them on paper. Good news everyone! According to Duck and Cover, a premiere Fallout fan site, a settlement has been reached between Bethesda and Interplay over the ongoing lawsuit pertaining to Fallout Online (or Project V13). For those in need of a jump to the brain, back in 2007 Interplay sold the Fallout franchise to Bethesda under the agreement that Interplay would develop the Fallout MMO, with the understanding that such a title would be in full development by April 2009. When that date came and went, allegedly with no real progress, Bethesda launched a lawsuit against Interplay for failing to meet their side of the bargain.

This recess was extended, and then they recessed for lunch. After the lunch recess, the court room was locked to everyone except attorneys and clients. When our source asked why this was the case, our source was told it was because they were working out a settlement. The following day, another source called the court reporter to ask what the next hearing schedule for the case was — this source was told there was no schedule as a settlement had been reached.

More information, according to Duck and Cover, is set to be released this month. Until then, let the speculation continue on the future of the vaporware MMO known as Project V13.

(Source: Duck and Cover)