What pricks.

So I guess we will get battlefront 3 before any other Star Wars games.... great. I was really looking forward to this.

Fuck EA. I will never buy a single product from them ever again. That Star Wars game was one of the games I was most excited for.
So much potential lost.

Right? I mean who wants a epic uncharted styled single player Starwars game......

When we can instead have a generic online multi-player, shooter styled as a G a a S type game with lootcrates and whatnot.

The narrative that these games cost so much money and arnt profitable needs to die. People online had me believing that there is no money being made in this industry, that is untill I got into stocks. I encourage everyone to go out and look at these publishers stocks over the last 5 years. Acti-blizzard, Ubisoft, ea, and take-two all the big publishers traded in America have had huge growth.


In the last 5 yrs price per share
Activision- 10$ to 61
Ea- 12$ to 116$
Take 2- 10 to 104
Ubisoft 1.5 to 15.5

So tell me again how this industry is doing? These publishers arnt loosing money they just want everything to make money like call of duty, destiny, FIFA, overwatch ect. Not every game is going to give u that. It's just greed.

I didn't realize that's been in development for that long. Respawn pumps out games pretty quick too.

i googled and from what I can gather from an interview is that it started in late 2015. 

His initial game wasn't Star Wars though. It was something else. Respawn pitched Star Wars but ea was hesitant at first. By late 2015 ea came around and they started on Star Wars scrapping whatever they where working on first. The Star Wars team is supposedly completely separate from the titanfall one.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/respawn-star-wars-news/amp/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o3FiUsZJWzU

Go to the last 3 or 4 minutes. That ign vid was October 2016 and he says approx. 1 year before that.

Big 3rd party publishers (unlike first party) have no incentive to publish unprofitable games. They won't finance the developmet of a game if they can't make a proper return on the imvestment.

All the companies you've listed have all grown because they can count on cash-cow franchise that can generate them billions of income thus make them able to sustain AAA development costs: Activision has COD, EA has FIFA, Take2 has GTA, Ubisoft has Assasin's Creed.

All big publishers who couldn't rely on a cash-cow like those have either closed business or have shift their focus (see THQ, se Square Enix mobile games, Konami pachinkos)

Battlefield hardline is actually a really good game.

The online is decent and enjoyable.

But the campaign is a AAA cops and robbers meets CSI miami blockbuster. There are very few games like this in existence. I really enjoyed it and would love another like it.

Nintendo are interested in mature games now aren't they.
Maybe she could find a home at Retro.