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[Eknots]

Coming January 2023 to steam...
Battlefront 12

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[Damian.]

3 FPS per year. Not looking good.

 

[Flai]

Great, looking forward to DICE's and Bioware's Star Wars games.. Let's just hope that EA doesn't fuck this up.

 

[Wubby]

With EA at the helm I'll never see a new one of these...

 

[blizzardjesus]

We can only pray that they'll go out of business before that.

 

[adj_noun]

I want KOTOR 3, TIE Fighter 2 and Imperial Commando.

I'll start holding my breath now.

 

[Grayman]

Ten years should end up covering the new trilogy. I wonder if EA will make the movie: the game for each of those.

Probably good for 2-3 battlefront games if it sells well.

 

[MRORANGE]

10 years so they can utilize the number of star war films that are coming out for maximum exposure.

 

[PanicFreak]

Gives us KOTOR

Yes and I'm sure that will happen.

 

[TheWrathOfSean]

10 years of Star Wars games from the company that put in-app purchases into Tetris.

 

[eot]

Please retcon SWOTOR

 

[a916]

Cool, will be nice to see what DICE and Visceral do with the SW license alongside Bioware.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Poor Nintendo.

yep...

 

[JustinBB7]

Coming January 2023 to steam...
Battlefront 12

BUY NOW

You mean Origin

 

[Binabik15]

Are we predicting how many SW games that will be over ten years? I say 25 on pc/consoles/handhelds.

 

[Steel]

... So this means obsidian is not going to get another star wars game. That makes me sad...

 

[Seventy_X_Seven]

Eh, I have a hard time getting upset considering we're going to get a DICE made Battlefront out of this deal.

 

[a916]

Well, I'll just go a gen without Star Wars games.

Looking back a gen, Force Unleashed had potential with the physics engines and premise, but unfortunately fell far short of what it could've been due to knuckleheaded design and shallow combat.

Looking forward a gen, I don't trust anything by Bioware since EA assimilated them, and after the disappointment that was BF3 and mess that is BF4, I don't understand how anyone could still praise DICE or harbor excitement for their work. Maybe Visceral could pull off something of note, but I'll wait two additional years for the complete edition of whatever they inevitably riddle with BS DLC and microtransactions... for $15 used.

BF4 is good... when it decides to work properly. I would assume eventually it will get ironed out. DICE has a history of rocky launches

Eh, I have a hard time getting upset considering we're going to get a DICE made Battlefront out of this deal.

And a potential Bioware KOTOR3 running on Frostbite? Oh boy...

 

[Liha]

Battlefront 2016?

 

[injurai]

Gives us KOTOR

No. Kotor 3 should be handled by Obsidian, on a licensed Red Engine.

 

[Effect]

This was such a bad idea by Disney. I like to think part of why past Star Wars games (NES to PS2/Xbox/Cube and PC games over those years) were so good and why people look back fondly on them for the most part was because games were made by different studios. There was a good amount of variety between the games from space sims/arcade to platformers to rpgs to shooters to adventure to an mmo and to rts. You'll never get that amount of variety or even close to it with EA being the only publisher/developer touching Star Wars.

 

[Naminator]

EA is not my cup of tea, but people who are arguing that we are somehow going to get WORSE Star Wars games than what we have been subjected to the past decade need pass what ever the fuck they are smoking.

 

[Messypandas]

 

[Effect]

The fact that crap was made and the Wii never got a lightsaber game still bothers me.

Poor Nintendo.

If Super Mario 3D World does what Nintendo wants it to do, same with Mario Kart and Smash, I do have to wonder how Disney allows EA to ignore both the Wii U and 3DS. Especially once the movies start coming out and the history of Star Wars games on Nintendo hardware.

 

[sant]

How could you be upset by this? At least we know we will actually be getting quality Star Wars games which is more than you could say about last gen.

 

[dr_rus]

Can't be worse than it was for the last five years, right? Right?

 

[Abounder]

Eh, I have a hard time getting upset considering we're going to get a DICE made Battlefront out of this deal.

That would have happened even without the deal. Now we won't be getting other 3rd party games for the sake of EA

How could you be upset by this? At least we know we will actually be getting quality Star Wars games which is more than you could say about last gen.

Because EA is anti-consumer and their games aren't worth having exclusives: Look at the SWTOR Ilum fiasco, Battlefield 4 launch, Madden, Fifa, etc.

Can you imagine if they had an exclusive NBA license? The comparisons between Live and 2k says it all

EA is not my cup of tea, but people who are arguing that we are somehow going to get WORSE Star Wars games than what we have been subjected to the past decade need pass what ever the fuck they are smoking.

Sure as hell won't get any better with EA milking and rushing titles to make up for buying a 10 year license

Also fuck Origin. No more Steam sales

 

[Portugeezer]

Bring back 1313

 

[Effect]

How could you be upset by this? At least we know we will actually be getting quality Star Wars games which is more than you could say about last gen.

Giving EA exclusive rights means there will be quality? Since when?

 

[Crimsonlink]

There is a disturbance in the Force after reading the length of this contract. 10 freaking years! So many other companies could have licensed SW and made various different games in that time.

 

[Yort]

I'd buy Kotor 3 day one

Spoiler

If it was made by Obsidian

 

[Prevolition]

As a Nintendo gamer, I take issue with this.

 

[Crawl]

10 years of an origin prison?

 

[Shiggy]

Yeah, 10 more years in which I save money as I don't need to buy a Star Wars game.

 

[TimFL]

They should do an open world The Force Unleashed MMO. Madness.

 

[JazzmanZ]

Poor Nintendo.

more like poor EA Disney is most certainly going to want to put their company games on Nintendo platforms

 

[Oersted]

10 years milking the franchise with poor, multiplayer focused games ahead...

The milking is ingrained intos Star Wars DNA.

 

[Duxxy3]

As long as they make good games I don't really care.

I just don't want to see another madden situation.

 

[BWJinxing]

JOHN MADDEN'S STARWARS HUTBALL CONFIRMED

Gotta merge those exclusivity rights!

thats hilarious. omg. One can only hope they use the force for good.

 

[Nokterian]

DICE will manage to screw the game up for the first few weeks of the game's launch, at least.

Beta will work very good and yes launch will be a disaster.

 

[Schweinehund]

Ten more years of shitty star wars games.

In comparison to what major publisher holding the license?

There hasn't been a great star wars game in about 10 years. Bioware arguably made the most well recieved star wars game. I don't think I'd let ubisoft or activision have the license...

 

[2 Slice Toaster]

That would have happened even without the deal. Now we won't be getting other 3rd party games for the sake of EA

How would we have gotten a DICE-made Battlefront game if the exclusive rights had been granted to another publisher? Just like with the NFL rights, gamers focus the blame on EA, when it was the NFL who put the rights up for bid. Should EA have stood by in either case and let another publisher walk away with the rights?

 

[Nirolak]

Beta will work very good

Though sometimes not quite as well as the alpha.

 

[spookyfish]

Sure I'm not the first to do this ... but my thoughts.

 

[plufim]

If EA put nothing on the 3DS then they are leaving money on the table. Kids love star wars, even clone wars crap. Lego Star Wars games always sold well on Nintendo systems.

 

[Eusis]

Welp, KotOR 1 & 2 were basically the last cry of quality from the IP in the game space for me anyway.

If EA put nothing on the 3DS then they are leaving money on the table. Kids love star wars, even clone wars crap. Lego Star Wars games always sold well on Nintendo systems.

Yeah, they may be able to ignore Wii U but I don't think they an responsibly ignore 3DS entirely. Not with a license like this certainly.

 

[HawksWinStanley]

GAF has a serious lack of optimism. It all souds good to me, 10 years is at least one Battlefront game.

Didn't EA say at E3 that they wanted Battlefront on the three year cycle along with Battlefield and Titanfall? I thought I remember them saying to expect a sequel to those titles once every 3 years.

 

[Nokterian]

Though sometimes not quite as well as the alpha.

Or pre alpha even!

Spoiler

we need to go deeper!

 

[BPoole]

Sounds like an unprecedented partnership

 

[flyinpiranha]

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.