People cant count.
And lets be clear interplay cannot run a business. Back in the day interplay had any number of great games that sold well, not just black isle but interplay was a pretty prominent name in the games world back when EA was a game maker not a publisher, and lucasarts made good star wars games.
Yet despite the fact that in my game library and many people game library interplay existed any number of interplay titles, interplay continued to hemmorage money, like wtf.
Did bethesda really purchase the rights in "good faith" i say hell no. It was pretty clear they knew they had a bunch of business idiots on the phone that had a potentially huge ip on their hands, and hammered out a deal involving a MMO. A MMO is the most difficult thing in the games world to do proper it requires mountains of time and money. If interplays idea was to angle for the mmo they should have been smacked by their business lawyers, and interplay agreeing to a strict timetable their lawyers should have hung their clients.
beth constantly nannying them from day 1 was a clear sign that beth had no faith the interplay could follow through on the mmo on any timetable. beth also pulled a rather dickish move when the fallout bundle came out throwing a tantrum that the bundle would confuse gamers, that could nto keep bethesda fallout 3d game seperate from black isle isometric 2d sprite games.....
I think any good will here is wholly imagined, bethesda knew they caught a fish and were going to jerk that fish around hard. Neither company has acted in good faith, bethesda games are wholly overrated, but interplay has done nothing worth mention in nearly 15 years either, and even when they were showed an extreme knack of not being able to make money.
