No please
If Square-Enix acquired Lucas Arts that would be interesting. Giving Stars Wars to people use to making dramatic RPGs and they sure could use the name recognition for their IPs.
Please give the license to somebody that's hungry to make a name for themselves. Somebody that isn't just looking at every aspect in terms of numbers and hooking an audience into an ongoing "service". No license exclusivity hell let's go back to the old old days when upstarts and smalltime developers could get hold of a license if they had an idea to pitch. Otherwise don't even consider letting companies with toxic reputations have sole access to such a beloved franchise. Sod it though, Star Wars is pretty much dead to me at this point with the BS that is going on with the films too atm.
I think a lot of people are also forgetting that Lucas Atrs was doing jack shit with the Star Wars license in the last decade of its life. We just need new young blood in the Star Wars license.
Oh yes they were, it slowed down around the time of the sale (which usually takes up to a year or more in planning and back and forth with such an acquisition), so naturally they are not going to invest in heavy new projects if it were in the contract phase that it was to get the ax after.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LucasArts_games
The completion of the sale to Disney was in 2012.
You know damn well Factor 5 would be itching to give it a go again.
Oh yes they were, it slowed down around the time of the sale (which usually takes up to a year or more in planning and back and forth with such an acquisition), so naturally they are not going to invest in heavy new projects if it were in the contract phase that it was to get the ax after.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LucasArts_games
The completion of the sale to Disney was in 2012.
You know damn well Factor 5 would be itching to give it a go again.
I hate EA almost as much as I hate sand.This is outrageous, it's unfair!
I HATE YOU!
He was pansexual? Holy shit I didn't even notice. They fumbled Lando's character and that's not the reason why. And besides, we can't accuse ND of "agenda driven" poor writing as it just hasn't happened and even if we could, that would still be better than the lootbox hell and myriad of cancellations EA has given us. Dying a very slow and painful death would probably be better than the EA-Star Wars partnership.
It's becoming increasingly clear that though EA is sitting on one of the world's most valuable IPs, with a rich galaxy and lore to explore, with dozens of amazing single-player games set in that universe, they decided to invest in Battlefield Clones and P2W black holes.
With the pansexual Lando thing, that was quite subtle and you can either appreciate it, ignore it or laugh. I wouldn't have noticed it except it was mentioned in an interview. "Oh yeah well Lando would fuck a robot if given half a chance" was basically it. When there's no song & dance or it's left open to interpretation that's one thing, it's when you smack it into the audience's face with a hammer that it becomes divisive.
What irks me about this is EA just sits on it and resources into creating new IPs that nobody really expected or asked for. Anthem for example... Why not set that in the Star Wars universe and make it about a rogue band of Mandalorian mercenaries on a quest to uncover a relic from the KOTOR era. The game would still be criticised left right and centre for being a Destiny clone and always online etc, but a lot of Star Wars fans would be thrilled to play a co-op shooter set in the Star Wars universe.
Oh boy. I didn't knew about this.No please
So how long has it been since EA got the SW rights and we have basically had 2 lacklustre multiplayer FPS games. The Games were always some of the best EU experiences I seriously think the lack of engaging and story driven SW games in the last few years has hurt Disneys efforts to build a loved extended universe to the new era.
Just port the Old Republic to console already. It will sell just fine while EA keeps starting and cancelling SW games.
Seems like EA is probably not loving the deal they made and instead of dealing with Disney, would rather just do nothing.