The real deal behind Troika's bid for the Fallout license

Leonard Boyarsky, one of the key founders of <a href="http://www.troikagames.com">Troika Games</a> has just posted the "real story" behind all that talk about Troika's bid for the Fallout license, <a href="http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=170807#170807">in a thread on the RPGCodex</a>:
<blockquote>I would have posted sooner, but you guys seemed to be having too much fun.

For the record:

We never, ever bid on Fallout. One major publisher mentioned Interplay was shopping it around and would be interested in us developing it for them, but they dropped it as too expensive when they found out the asking price (not ours, Interplay's). We never had our own money, and were just beginning to toy with the idea of independent funding near the end of our life as a business - which was after Beth had already gotten Fallout.

I did approach Bethesda about us working with them on Fallout, but they were uninterested. Instead of flaiming them for this however, think about it from their point of view: who among us would want to pay a huge amount of money for a license and then turn it over to someone else? I'm assuming they paid the $$ because they wanted to make a Fallout game, end of story.

Our post apocalyptic game was going to be something new, simply because we loved the genre. We struggled with whether to make it post apoc or not, since Beth already had Fallout, but our love for the genre outweighed other considerations.

I'm not going to go anywhere near the argument of who is responsible for Fallout's greatness, except to say that Scott Campbell never gets the credit he deserves in all these arguments. He wrote alot of the original story and came up with alot of the characters and places as well.

Leonard Boyarsky
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Well, that's that I suppose. Rumours are that the "major publisher" Leon refers to is <a href="http://www.activision.com/">Activion</a>, the publishers of <a href="http://www.vampirebloodlines.com">Bloodlines</a>.