I just downloaded and installed Fallout Classic but the readme and licensing has Bethesda on it. Did GOG change out the classic installers for the new ones now and is this the only option available for download? I didn't expect to have access to that version at all.

I'd of thought it would be the same one on TPB:)

TPB?

The Pirate Bay?

I don't know anything you don't, but I'd imagine that they're still Fallout Classic but with the readme and licensing changed to reflect their new licensors.

That version? What version? I assume when the previous license expired and GOG pulled the old Fallouts until this new license could be negotiated, that they now sell/carry one with the license of the new owner, nothing more. The game should be identical, no?

Yeah. I just didn't hear anything about the old installers being removed and replaced for people who had the classic version on their account. It was free so I shouldn't feel like I was duped, but I was certainly surprised.

The Interplay-published releases have the suffix "Classic" since Bethesda took over, the Bethesda releases lack several extras and the OS X installers. The OP was questioning why the pre-Bethesda (Classic) releases have "Bethesda" in the documents.

It's the game we own, I think, not the installers per se. Would be kinda silly for GOG to have new installers for new buyers, but keep old installers solely for old owners I'd say. So long as the game is the same, the installers shouldn't matter.

Hell, I usually don't even care about launchers unless there's a really cool one I like, such as one I found for kotor 1.

EDIT Well that sucks. Guess I shouldn't update my downloads then.

Answered here https://www.gog.com/forum/general/rerelease_fallout_series_72e26/post121

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Hard to get a joke straight faced across in this place.

Games was pulled from GOG store at one point. It returned, under licensing from Bethesda. Thanks to Bethesda, though, ALL extras have been removed. GOG commented that bargaining for their inclusion would take more time and resources, than having the game itself alone in store, so they gave priority to it (but they left a cliffhanger promise to try and bid for extras' return).

I asked about this earlier, and I think the ones who originally bought the Interplay version, now have both the old and the new version in the same installer.

When you install it, don't you get two shortcuts in the Start menu to Fallout, one marked as "classic" and the other not? That's at least how I saw it with Fallout 1-2 and Tactics. So if you want to play the Interplay version, I guess you use the "Classic" shortcut.

Here is more discussion about it:

https://www.gog.com/forum/fallout_series/which_versions_of_fallouts_do_i_have_now_interplay_andor_bethesda/page1

Oooh, I see. That's cool then. Thanks! :D

From what I remember when comparing the Bethesda versions with the CD patched versions, they've altered just some of the manuals, readme and text files that displayed the Interplay copyright, removing or replacing it with Bethesda/ZeniMax.

For example, in Fallout Tactics which I still have installed, the text {Copyright (c) 2001 Interplay Entertainment Corp. All rights reserved.} was removed from the gui_text.txt file, located in Fallout Tactics\core\locale\gui\
The pdf manual has several pages with technical support, warranty, Interplay & MicroForte logos, etc. missing.

The last page, with the leather look, in the Fallout pdf manual has the Interplay logo covered with another leather patch.