Classic Fallout Games Removed from GOG Following Interplay License Expiration

Classic Fallout Games Removed from GOG Following Interplay License Expiration

More sad news to ring in the new year as it was revealed earlier that the old Fallout titles have been removed from sites like GOG. The reason once again is due to Interplay no longer owning the rights to the franchise once the year came to an end. All rights now belong to Bethesda, which has so far not come to any sort of agreement with GOG for distribution rights.

Strangely, you can still find Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics at Steam. There is no word on whether or not these titles will also be pulled from that service as they all still list Interplay as the publisher. In fact, these titles are offered at a 75% discount due to the holiday sale.

If you've been on the fence, you may want to pick them up now just in case they aren't back any time soon.
Tags: pc, bethesda, gog, gog.com, fallout, fallout 2, fallout tactics, interplay
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  K-16 commented
  
  01-01-2014, 04:16 PM
  
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  Well that explains the random giveaway GOG did earlier. Would've been kind of funny if they had to remove it from our accounts as well. Easy come, easy go.
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  Shawn Zipay commented
  
  01-01-2014, 06:54 PM
  
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  Originally posted by K-16
  
  Well that explains the random giveaway GOG did earlier. Would've been kind of funny if they had to remove it from our accounts as well. Easy come, easy go.
  
  Pretty sure GOG did the free giveaways as a bit of a "screw you" to Bethesda once they learned Bethesda didn't want to play ball with them on continuing to sell the DRM-free versions of the games after the Interplay license expired.
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  K-16 commented
  
  01-01-2014, 07:25 PM
  
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  Wouldn't doubt it. If they could do it without repercussions, they probably would've explicitly told Bethesda to go screw themselves within that news update itself. At least the last hurrah was a heck of a good one, as it nuked the GOG servers for part of the day (support was amazing given how quickly they setup new servers).
  
  I still think it would've been funny if everyone noticed their recently acquired Fallout games disappear from their accounts though. "I just got this! How did I lose it?!"
  
  (Hopefully future giveaways will be on better circumstances, like the free games given when registering an account for example.)
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