Remember when Embracer group acquired joke IP's back then? But now they are acquiring big IP's. Are they becoming dangerous?

[DonFerrari]

theRepublic said:

DonFerrari said:

Gaming development is continuously harder and longer, so expecting similar level of output on a 20 year difference window won't help anyone.

NES, SNES and even some PS1 titles were concluded in less than 4 months dev time. A similar received/scope game nowadays would be 5 years in development.

That is true, but the other big difference is that when LucasArts was in charge, they worked with a lot of different developers to deliver games.  Star Wars games were a huge part of the identity of LucasArts.  That was a huge focus of the compamy.  Once EA got the license that all changed.  It was just another license to them, and clearly not a big focus.  How could it be compared to LucasArts?

On that I certainly agree with you.

The license could have been done like the one granted to Insomniac. They don't have exclusive rights to make any and all Marvel games, they were just granted permission to make games under SM universe (and other can still do it as well if they pay for it).