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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Report: Disney unhappy with EA, considering dropping the Star Wars exclusivity deal early, Activision/Ubisoft have been contacted already

DonFerrari on 21 February 2018
DakonBlackblade said:

Talk to CDProjekRed for them to make something on the Old Republic era and we will all be happy.

DonFerrari said: 
For me SW could be left on the memories of the past, the first trilogy... and hardly this rumor is real, I doubt EA left a clause that would make it easy for them to lose the deal.

There's likely something in the contract determining some sort of goal, like number of games, quality of reviews or sales numbers, Disney wouldn't bind themselves in a contract were EA could just not do anything or screw everything realy abdly and sit on the license.

Yes there may be some critereas, but burning bridges and forcing contracts on "loose interpretations" is bad...

Don't forget that Lucasfilm original deal for toys had a single clause for termination on performance that was paying at least 10k in royalties per year.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

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http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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Mr_No on 21 February 2018

Those are two nice options, but I wish they expanded their scope with other publishers and developers:

Ubisoft with Star Wars...

Freeroam universe where you have to hack satellites to broaden the map.

Activision with Star Wars...

Star Wars Battle Royale :(

Sony with Star Wars exclusivity...

A Star Wars drama heavy in story, lacking in gameplay.

Microsoft with Star Wars exclusivity...

Star Wars/Halo crossover.

Take2 with Star Wars...

Star Wars massive freeroaming universe.

Nintendo with Star Wars...

Star Wars characters in SSB and Mario Kart

Konami with Star Wars...

A pachinko machine only exclusive to Japan (the worst kind of exclusivity)

 

Honestly though, I prefer to see how Ubisoft would handle the franchise given their okay track record throughout the years. It's the lesser of two evils of the two who have been contacted



Chazore on 21 February 2018
fatslob-:O said:

Too bad their quality of the games are less than desirable ...  

Not as bad as the anti consumer practices the other two employ.

I did come to think that actually naming a publisher would bring you back to replying to me with something cherry picked though.



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flashfire926 on 21 February 2018
KManX89 said:
flashfire926 said:

what gta:o debacle? It has proven to be wildly successful.

You mean besides charging users a fee just to PLAY online and filling it with pay-to-win MTXs? 

Take-Two is also on the shit totem pole along with EA, Bunglevision, Ubisoft, Konami, etc. 

There might be microtrasactions, but I played and enjoyed, reasonably progressed, without having to spend a single penny. I never felt nagged to either.

Keep in mind this was 2013-2015 on x360 version, so if things have changed now, I dont know about that.



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

fatslob-:O on 21 February 2018
Chazore said:

Not as bad as the anti consumer practices the other two employ.

I did come to think that actually naming a publisher would bring you back to replying to me with something cherry picked though.

That wasn't cherry picked, those games are their own fully developed and recent releases too so there's many other examples I could've listed ... 

A developer is only as good as their last game ... 



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Chazore on 21 February 2018
fatslob-:O said:

That wasn't cherry picked, those games are their own fully developed and recent releases too so there's many other examples I could've listed ... 

A developer is only as good as their last game ... 

I was talking in terms of acting as a publisher, not developer. EA owns Dice, but EA's own internal staff do not make games of their own. They have the studios they own doing the work.



Step right up come on in, feel the buzz in your veins, I'm like an chemical electrical right into your brain and I'm the one who killed the Radio, soon you'll all see

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KManX89 on 22 February 2018
flashfire926 said:
KManX89 said:

You mean besides charging users a fee just to PLAY online and filling it with pay-to-win MTXs? 

Take-Two is also on the shit totem pole along with EA, Bunglevision, Ubisoft, Konami, etc. 

There might be microtrasactions, but I played and enjoyed, reasonably progressed, without having to spend a single penny. I never felt nagged to either.

Keep in mind this was 2013-2015 on x360 version, so if things have changed now, I dont know about that.

They also charged for friggin' player haircuts in NBA 2K, let's not forget. Even worse, they tried to squeeze additional money out of their players by not even lending a preview and charging you for the old hairdo if you didn't like it.

Take-Two is paddling up shit creek alongside EA, Konami, Bunglevision, WB and Ubisoft. No wonder they tried to defend EA's shitty antics by saying loot boxes aren't gambling even though they clearly are.

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DonFerrari on 22 February 2018
KManX89 said:
flashfire926 said:

There might be microtrasactions, but I played and enjoyed, reasonably progressed, without having to spend a single penny. I never felt nagged to either.

Keep in mind this was 2013-2015 on x360 version, so if things have changed now, I dont know about that.

They also charged for friggin' player haircuts in NBA 2K, let's not forget. Even worse, they tried to squeeze additional money out of their players by not even lending a preview and charging you for the old hairdo if you didn't like it.

Take-Two is paddling up shit creek alongside EA, Konami, Bunglevision, WB and Ubisoft. No wonder they tried to defend EA's shitty antics by saying loot boxes aren't gambling even though they clearly are.

haircuts is as cosmetic as it can get, so even though I have no love for EA if all nick and dime was done like this I would have zero issue. Lootboxes and the like as well, if I can have a good experience on the game and the extra pay is just for extra clothing (as long as the already included is already good) and I don't need to pay for it to have a good game I'm fine with it.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

flashfire926 on 22 February 2018
KManX89 said:
flashfire926 said:

There might be microtrasactions, but I played and enjoyed, reasonably progressed, without having to spend a single penny. I never felt nagged to either.

Keep in mind this was 2013-2015 on x360 version, so if things have changed now, I dont know about that.

They also charged for friggin' player haircuts in NBA 2K, let's not forget. Even worse, they tried to squeeze additional money out of their players by not even lending a preview and charging you for the old hairdo if you didn't like it.

Take-Two is paddling up shit creek alongside EA, Konami, Bunglevision, WB and Ubisoft. No wonder they tried to defend EA's shitty antics by saying loot boxes aren't gambling even though they clearly are.

Yeah, I agree, 2K is heading down that shitty path too. and worst of all, it paid off for them in a good way; 2K18 was more successful than 2K17.



Bet with Intrinsic:

The Switch will outsell 3DS (based on VGchartz numbers), according to me, while Intrinsic thinks the opposite will hold true. One month avatar control for the loser's avatar.

Kerotan on 22 February 2018
fatslob-:O said:
Chazore said:
THQN. They aren't owned by one of the big 3, so no exclusivity bullshit, and they have been hitting some good notes over the past couple of years. They also aren't like EA, Activision and Ubisoft.

Too bad their quality of the games are less than desirable ...  

I'm conflicted if we should either have a morally consumer unfriendly Star Wars game or a plain bad Star Wars game ... (in as much as the critics somewhat panned the Battlefront series I don't doubt that THQN could bring in something far more atrocious)

Jesus they are the last people I'd want making it. They'd come nowhere near bf2. I'm playing it a lot. Campaign was good. Multiplaye superb. Currently rank 36. Only paid 30 euro on psn in December. Absolute bargain for such a high quality and fun game

Vincoletto said:
Funny thing is that this was a home run for EA.
A new Kotor, new Battlefront, a new 3rd person action game such as Force Unleashed etc... it was all 100% success guaranteed... but they somehow screwed up...

The biggest fuck up was visceral. Things must have been bad if they shut them down. At least the assets will be reused.