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Zombie9ers on 15 January 2019

Breaking news from Kotaku:

https://kotaku.com/ea-cancels-open-world-star-wars-game-1831786371

EA is just the worst!



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flashfire926 on 15 January 2019

Is this the Viseral game that got transferred to EA Vancouver?

Though anyways, EA gonna EA. Pretty sad we're more than halfway through the Star Wars/EA deal, yet they havent been able a single quality star wars game so far.



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Ganoncrotch on 15 January 2019

EA gonna EA



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AngryLittleAlchemist on 15 January 2019
cycycychris said:

It'll amaze me if Disney renews with EA when there contract ends. All we've gotten so far is 2 battlefront games filed with controversy. Now we have this one canceled.

Signing up with one publisher IN GENERAL is such a confusing decision to make anyways. Not to sound like a hippie, but there just seems to be way more potential with licensing out the property to multiple capable companies. More games, more titles, more of a chance for greater profit and quality. Of course licensing it out to too many people could be a problem, but still.

 

I'll be glad when a more interesting company takes the Star Wars games into their hands.



gemini_d@rk on 15 January 2019

Star Wars in a sony first party studio it would be interesting. Come on Disney!



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Faelco on 15 January 2019
twintail said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Signing up with one publisher IN GENERAL is such a confusing decision to make anyways. Not to sound like a hippie, but there just seems to be way more potential with licensing out the property to multiple capable companies. More games, more titles, more of a chance for greater profit and quality. Of course licensing it out to too many people could be a problem, but still.

 

I'll be glad when a more interesting company takes the Star Wars games into their hands.

I dont think going with EA exclusively was an inherently bad idea, but on hindsight it sure has been.

Though I do wonder if Disney is involved in some way... like they have more creative control that is derailing some aspects of the project. its not like Disney seems upset

Supposedly the CEO of Disney called EA during the Battlefront 2 debacle to tell them to get their shit together. 

Supposedly. 



AngryLittleAlchemist on 15 January 2019
twintail said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Signing up with one publisher IN GENERAL is such a confusing decision to make anyways. Not to sound like a hippie, but there just seems to be way more potential with licensing out the property to multiple capable companies. More games, more titles, more of a chance for greater profit and quality. Of course licensing it out to too many people could be a problem, but still.

 

I'll be glad when a more interesting company takes the Star Wars games into their hands.

I dont think going with EA exclusively was an inherently bad idea, but on hindsight it sure has been.

Yeah mind you I'm not usually the kind of guy that just puts down anything made by a big notorious publisher. I don't think it's *inherently* a bad idea. Just not what I would have preferred :) multiple companies taking a crack at it (though with restrictions ofc) was the best thing I think. Though hindsight is 2020 



Poliwrathlord on 15 January 2019

God I feel so bad for the Star Wars IP. It get's stuck with Disney, one of the biggest money-whore companies ever to exist, and on the games side it get's stuck with EA, which is fucking EA.
RIP good Star Wars content



Rafie on 15 January 2019

Was this the reason why Amy Hennig left the studio? I meaning because of EA?



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HylianSwordsman on 15 January 2019

Psst, Disney, go talk to Nintendo...

What? Come on, you know a Retro Studios Star Wars game would be the hypest fucking thing since Metroid Prime. Cancel that dumb Star Fox racing game that's obviously going nowhere and make an open world Star Wars game that'll make Mass Effect blush.

Edit: Come to think of it, even if Disney doesn't talk to you, Nintendo, cancel the Star Fox racing game and have them make the game I just described, but with Star Fox instead, since Disney's too stupid to do it with Star Wars. Han Solo was a smuggler, Boba Fett was a bounty hunter, the Star Fox team in a game like this would basically be a cross between the two, mercenaries for hire.

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