Recent content by Corith

Having met the man, it would do VERY little. Like Raph Koster, Kathleen Kennedy, Rian Johnson, and many others with huge egos, their arrogance blinds them. Herve blames everybody and everything but himself and his actions. Any such interview on this site would be just as pointless as all the...

One of the classic mentalities of CEOs is the inability to admit any form of wrong doing (this level of arrogance extends to their private life as well). Yet, here we see, Herve chewing on the edge of humble pie. It was his idea to close down Black Isle. Interplay didn't close Black Isle...

Predicting Herve's actions is easy. If you believed all that you thought, said, and did were perfect and beyond approach, what would you do? I have no doubt that Herve thinks is V13 project is the end-all-be-all of MMOs. Losing the Fallout IP is just more of the conspiracy against his...

As a former IPLY employee, who's delt with Herve, I can tell you, they can't, and they never will. The core issue is, and has always been, Herve. He just isn't a gamer and has an arrogant streak a mile wide precluding any company he leads from developing anything meaningful. Herve always has...

Knowing Herve, which I do . . . I suspect he ran with the lawsuit and when the evidence piled up that he failed to live up to the terms of the contract, he folded with the idea of releasing HIS own post-apocalyptic MMO sans the name "Fallout" and pocked 2 million in the process.

Is it too much to hope that the settlement included Herve being forced out?

Mysql_real_escape_string() has to be applied to the mySQL statement, and Odin fessed up about not being all that savy of a programmer, so I was thinking of a global band-aid. By itself, it offers insufficient protection for a true SQL injection attack. It also does not escape % and _ wildcards...

here is some quick fix help. In your php.ini file, add auto_prepend_file = filepath/scrubber.php with filepath being actual physical location of a new file, scrubber.php something like C:/myphpfolder/someotherfolder/scrubber.php in this new file, use notepad to create and edit...

And I wear a fedora, but that doesn't mean such things are mainstream enough for a company to produce a game that way. Don't get me wrong, I greatly enjoyed the Fallout isometric view, but these days, its all about Halo, WoW, and Rift type interfaces - POV.

Not me. Herve has no talent himself, and his arrogance suppresses any innate talent in his employees. InXile should do really well with a Wasteland 2. Brian Fargo has some of the best people in the game industry working for him. While Obsidian can claim to have the most well known...

All joking aside, Herve really doesn't have that type of acumen. Burdened with a huge ego, he is more reactionary and not a master planner. He is often dumbstruck by the unwillingness of others to accept his "brilliant" plans and blindly lashes out in anger.

Hahahaha, most amusing. Oh, yes, please do contact Fergus.

A good deal of the graphical assets were purchased by Fergus, mainly those developed by his team before any of the beth deals went down. Most of the equipment was so old, we couldn't sell it. In fact, many of the drives, when turned off for the first time in a decade, locked into place...

Ultima story writers were looking for a way to tie in the concept of multiple servers running parallel copies of the same world into the lore of the Ultima universe. Raph Koster got the idea that each server was the reflection in one of the many pieces of the shattered Gem of Immortality from...

It was a $1,175,000 minimum guaranteed advance against royalties for Fallout 3 (at the time, I thought it was for much more). In 2007, Bethesda purchased the Fallout license for $5.75 million. They then licensed back the IP to Interplay to develop an MMO. However, that agreement came with very...