Kinda agree. Unfair for Respawn tho. But i think they can deliver. But alot of the Star Wars EA deal is riding on it.
Dont fully agree it needs to exceptional. But it needs to be solid.
Jedi: Fallen Order feels like EA's last chance to prove it deserves Star Wars
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Kinda agree. Unfair for Respawn tho. But i think they can deliver. But alot of the Star Wars EA deal is riding on it.
Dont fully agree it needs to exceptional. But it needs to be solid.
An IP like Star Wars should never be bound to a single developer/publisher, though I get the greater issue over an IP like Marvel for instance, considering Lucasfilm needs/wants everything in continuity, which becomes even more problematic when you have multiple companies working on it (doesn't make it right, but I can imagine the huge headache that must cause production-wise).
Oh no they don't. Credit for Jedi: Fallen Order shouldn't be given to EA, it should be given to Respawn. EA doesn't deserve this license and I hope a more suitable publisher gets it. Actually, I hope Star Wars isn't licensed to a single publisher but is instead allowed to be used by multiple ones.
i'm guessing sales of this will be a big factor in them continuing with the license (metacritic aside). I haven't been impressed by anything EA's done with it yet.
60% of the time has already gone by. EA has publodhed two fun but average games so far and that is coming from someone with like 200+ hours across both Battlefront games.
I have no doubt about JFO bring good but EA absolutely don't deserve the licence given what they've done with it in the past 6 years. A marvel approach of letting various devs try seems good
Deserve? I mean at the end of the day it comes down to what the most interesting business proposition is for DIsney. With Battlefront 2 I think EA really pushed the limits of that partnership. Of course in an ideal world we would see developers/publishers pitch their ideas to Disney to get the contract, and the best ideas win, but it's not an ideal world, and at the end of the day money wins.
With the proposed hiatus I wonder if EA will even bother putting out another Star Wars game after Fallen Order. I mean the contract is nearing it's end. And weren't there reports that Wilson wasn't happy with the 10-year deal in the first place?
With the proposed hiatus I wonder if EA will even bother putting out another Star Wars game after Fallen Order. I mean the contract is nearing it's end. And weren't there reports that Wilson wasn't happy with the 10-year deal in the first place?
Yes. EA had the perfect opportunity owning Bioware to do so, but they didn't.
May EA be really convinced that you can't sell more than one Star Wars game per year...?
After battlefront 1 and 2 they dont dont deserve it. they pumped out so many awful greedy mobile star wars games...
I think the bigger issue is whether AAA single player experiences are still worth it for EA so they can occasionally remove their GAAS boot from the neck of their talent.
Marvel and Star Wars games and they keep pumping them out too, one slightly different than the other.
Imagine EA having exclusive rights to Star Wars. Imagine EA owning Bioware.
Now imagine Bioware making a GaaS flop instead of KOTOR.
I hope so, but let's see if it pulls the numbers that'll satisfy EA.
Their Marvel branch is doing great though when it comes to games and that's because they aren't limited to one publisher. They approach different publishers, different developers and greenlight the best projects. That kind of thinking got us a PS4-exclusive Spider-Man, a Switch-exclusive Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 and upcoming multiplatform GaaS Avengers (and some pretty decent mobile games). This is a strategy that works and it's one that the Star Wars brand needs to adapt in the future. Unfortunately, that EA contract is nowhere close to ending...
Now imagine all that on an improved version of frostbite that powered dragon age inquisition.
Proceed to cry.
Hrmm. I think if people wanted a SP focused cinematic SW game, then Sony. Problem is who they get to do it since their main big studios are already deep into their own IPs etc. Ideally ND but they won't pull them away from their own titles anytime soon.
If people wanted a SP RPG ong the lines of KOTOR etc, then give it to MS. They have RPG teams that have a pedigree for RPGs.
Disney going the Marvel route does seem like the most likely outcome given how hard EA has dropped the ball. I'd love to see a single-player action-adventure game from Ninja Theory starring Melina Juergens.
Regular reminder that the former staff at Factor 5 still has the code and assets for the unreleased Rogue Squadron Trilogy remake, want to port it to Switch, and now all work together at Epic.
With EA's mandate to release as few games as possible with as much monetization and GaaS as possible, it really was an incredibly stupid move to license Star Wars.
Would have been nice of them to farm out the games to studios who wanted to do something fun with the IP, but here we are.
I'm rooting for you, Respawn
Would have been nice of them to farm out the games to studios who wanted to do something fun with the IP, but here we are.
I'm rooting for you, Respawn
I suppose I was thinking third party really,, I can't see Disney giving it to a first party because it would be a multi game deal and they'd likely want multiplatform.
As excited as I am for Respawn's great looking game, fuck no. No one publisher deserves exclusive rights to shit. Fuck EA, Disney, the NFL, and whatever other companies do this.
Disney should have retained some of LucasArts for the purpose of collaborating with every publisher/developer out there. Capcom, Platinum, Square, From Software, Sony, Nintendo, etc, all could have simultaneously working on a title that played to the genres in which they excel - action, adventure, platforming, racing, flying, fighting. Instead, we get EA pumping out two controversial shooters, scrapping several projects, and finally launching an awesome action game. EA owns (and has creatively bankrupted) BioWare and we still have no KOTOR spiritual successor in the works.
No one should get exclusive rights.
Disney should have retained some of LucasArts for the purpose of collaborating with every publisher/developer out there. Capcom, Platinum, Square, From Software, Sony, Nintendo, etc, all could have simultaneously working on a title that played to the genres in which they excel - action, adventure, platforming, racing, flying, fighting. Instead, we get EA pumping out two controversial shooters, scrapping several projects, and finally launching an awesome action game. EA owns (and has creatively bankrupted) BioWare and we still have no KOTOR spiritual successor in the works.
No one should get exclusive rights.
I feel they are perfect for Star Wars in 2019. Star Wars is now an inherently corporate franchise. Any assumptions that a Disney leadership or EA leadership will prove artful is pretty lost I think. There's amazing artists working under both umbrellas but the corporate superstructure and IP management ensures it's gonna be that aggressive chase of the bottom line by overfeeding us with it and by allowing certain releases to be botched. The damage is already done, and I want Star Wars to go on hiatus for a decade or something. It's turning into something soulless.
I had never heard about that idea Visceral had for their Star Wars game. Sounds much more original and ambitious than fallen order, shame it didn't saw the light of day.
I don't agree at all. Plus even if it is, Jedi Fallen order is bound to be amazing, so no big deal.
Fallen order could be the greatest star wars game of all time and ea would still not even remotely deserve to have the contract to make more star wars games. Once that contract is up I pray to god Disney finds someone else.
A new Star Wars game is coming in 2022, already announced.
And I guess if JFO is successful enough I can see a sequel
Did Disney and EA not freely contract for the licensing rights? If so, they don't deserve it any more or less than the terms of the contract. Thus far they have produced the two best selling games in franchise history. So if it makes financial sense then the parties will continue their agreement. Otherwise they will part ways and the next highest bidder will "earn" the right to try their hand at the IP.