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Ji99saw on 03 April 2013
ECM said:
Ji99saw said:
This is why I hate Disney

Disney? Blame Lucasarts--and Lucas in general--having terrible management for, God, a decade now? They couldn't make up their minds what they were:

1. A factory for pumping out licensed games based on Lucas' propteries.

OR

2. A creator of fine, if not top-selling, non-licensed games.

OR

3. A little of both.

That identity crisis--and the resulting poor sales and bad product management--led to their closure, not Disney.


No I hate Disney because if they can't sell to kids they don't make it, and now they own one of the most popular Franchises on earth and are going to use it exclusivity to sell cheap crap to children.



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Veknoid_Outcast on 03 April 2013
Panama said:
Well that just ruined my week.

Mine too :(

I know LucasArts hasn't done much of late, but this is still lousy news. It's the end of an era.



the_dengle on 03 April 2013
Ji99saw said:


No I hate Disney because if they can't sell to kids they don't make it, and now they own one of the most popular Franchises on earth and are going to use it exclusivity to sell cheap crap to children.

Lucas was already using Star Wars to sell cheap crap to children. Clone Wars? Star Wars Kinect?

I'll tell you what Disney is doing, they're bringing in quality control, a phrase George Lucas has not heard in a long time.



crissindahouse on 03 April 2013

damn, some of my favourite games like maniac mansion, zak mckracken, day of the tentacle and so on are from them



Jaywood2010 on 03 April 2013
Ji99saw said:
ECM said:
Ji99saw said:
This is why I hate Disney

Disney? Blame Lucasarts--and Lucas in general--having terrible management for, God, a decade now? They couldn't make up their minds what they were:

1. A factory for pumping out licensed games based on Lucas' propteries.

OR

2. A creator of fine, if not top-selling, non-licensed games.

OR

3. A little of both.

That identity crisis--and the resulting poor sales and bad product management--led to their closure, not Disney.


No I hate Disney because if they can't sell to kids they don't make it, and now they own one of the most popular Franchises on earth and are going to use it exclusivity to sell cheap crap to children.


I'd argue that Disney movies are for everybody rather than just for kids, not to mention movies like Prince of Persia, Pirates of the Carribean, and John Carter.  Disney makes many adult movies and even Pixar movies are designed for both adults and kids to like because adults watch movies with there kids.

LucasArts hasn't made anything in a long time worth mentioning so this one is on them and no need to blame Disney for LucasArts mistakes.




       

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JoeTheBro on 03 April 2013
Ji99saw said:
ECM said:
Ji99saw said:
This is why I hate Disney

Disney? Blame Lucasarts--and Lucas in general--having terrible management for, God, a decade now? They couldn't make up their minds what they were:

1. A factory for pumping out licensed games based on Lucas' propteries.

OR

2. A creator of fine, if not top-selling, non-licensed games.

OR

3. A little of both.

That identity crisis--and the resulting poor sales and bad product management--led to their closure, not Disney.


No I hate Disney because if they can't sell to kids they don't make it, and now they own one of the most popular Franchises on earth and are going to use it exclusivity to sell cheap crap to children.


Um Disney is far from catering to just kids. They made the Avengers if you don't remember.



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Heavenly_King on 03 April 2013

This is actually a good news, because now any publisher, that has great ideas about a SW games, can do it. They just need to pay the license fee though, but still now we might actually get some great SW games now.

Obsidian was trying to make KOTOR3, now they can, if they have the money to pay the fee, or if they find a good publisher. Activision or EA can now have the rights to do Battlefront III /jk.

Good SW will be developed once again.



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PlaystaionGamer on 03 April 2013

Really? Crap



Slimebeast on 03 April 2013

No loss. Lucas Arts sucked. They haven't made a good game since Jedi Knight in the mid 90's. SW 1313 looked like cinematic garbage.



darkknightkryta on 03 April 2013

This is actually good news. LucasArts hasn't made very many good video games in a while. Most good Star Wars games were from other developers anyways, going back to the licensing model is probably the way to go.