I really thought this had been canned already. I guess we still have The fallen order? Good lord EA.
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Kotaku (sources): EA has canceled its open-world Star Wars game
- Thread starter Khanimus
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yea and the battlefront 1 and 2 its obvious high quality games right !!!!??
i heard Disney didn't like what happened to the battlefront 2 strange they didn't cancel it if they have control in the projects as you said
but there are not the one who control it it's EA
Pretty much. Games and projects get canceled all the time. However, this is yet another self-inflicted wound because EA themselves announced that EA Vancouver was working on it before it was even a real game. If they'd just shut up about games that haven't hit the beta stage yet, they could avoid these PR nuisances.
I wouldn't have the energy or patience to constantly maintain my pod racer or clean my lightsaber.
Disney is equally to blame for this. Game development is difficult enough and an overly protective IP holder telling the dev what they can and cant do probably multiplies the difficulty.
Can Disney please give the license to a developer who actually gives a fuck about the franchise, this is beyond ridiculous.
Gonna have to disagree with all that. The "all canon" approach has not produced better media, only less media. Both Battlefronts were mediocre and one so mired in controversy it caused new laws to be passed in various countries. The books have bern real hit or miss with trash like " The Last Shot" and the same goes for the comics. Rebels was a let down after Clone Wars and Resistance is aimed for babies.
As for Iden Verso, idk what great character development you saw as she basically flips a switch and joins the rebels after your second mission. The story barely focuses on her as she's relegated to a cameo in a SW Greatest Hits campaign. And then at the very end the story remembers she had a father and a former squad mate as it seeks to resolve both plots that were never developed in the first place.
Just a terrible story and campaign.
There are a lot of takes in a 20 page thread like this, but this one on the first page called my attention.
I guess you are are console player?
Because one pc at least they had a golden streak of Star Wars games
Xwing and Tie Fighter are great classics of the space sim genre.
Jedi Knight and Jedi Outcasts are classic FPS, and Jedi Academy improved the saber combat even more.
Star War Racer was cool as hell.
I don't know if you meant this as a joke but it's pretty much true at this point...........they don't really care about the artistic integrity of the medium at all anymore,just profits....very sad.
There has got to be some kind of clause in the EA/Disney contract that says they can strip the license from EA due to negligence or ineptitude. This is absolutely shameful from EA, for an IP this massive and as much money that EA is keeping Disney from earning they should be able to yank exclusivity.
I mean, I get it, games are hard. But making a Star Wars narrative TPS or a Star Wars open-world game are slam dunk no brainers and I would bet dollars to donuts that Ubisoft could crank out one of each within 2 years with a meta over 80
I mean, I get it, games are hard. But making a Star Wars narrative TPS or a Star Wars open-world game are slam dunk no brainers and I would bet dollars to donuts that Ubisoft could crank out one of each within 2 years with a meta over 80
watch Respawns game get cancelled to "pivot the game design" so that players can come back and back again. Fucking christ this literally was the exact bullshit quote they used for Hennigs star wars game.
Not a joke. The majority of their output is reskins and yearly refreshes.
If I would be them and would need to get a new Star Wars game out by the end of 2020 (so less than 2 years), I would probably take the existing framework of the space battle mode in Battlefront 2 by Criterion and turn it into a full-fledged new Roque Squadron game.
Just now seeing this, wow. I'm floored at how poorly EA has handled the license. Back when the deal was announced I was actually pretty hopeful, given how many development resources EA had I figured they'd be able to produce a wide variety of Star Wars content.
Instead we've gotten two disappointing Battlefront games and a hell of a lot of cancellations and horror stories. I really think there shouldn't be one publisher in control of it.
Instead we've gotten two disappointing Battlefront games and a hell of a lot of cancellations and horror stories. I really think there shouldn't be one publisher in control of it.
They cancelled one game and another SW is in development at the same studio + they have Respawn SW game coming this year.
They have all the assets and frameworks. They could do several games with it. Multi and Singleplayer.
Guess our best hope is that they put everything they have plus a lot of new stuff into Battlefront 3 and add a good progression system this time with a modern progression system that isn't pay to win. There are good examples out there, they just have to copy that.
Disney needs to alter this deal and I pray they alter even further. In all honesty, they should just license properties out on a per game basis, that way they aren't saddled with this bullshit. EA wants to keep on with Battlefront? fine. Sony and Nintendo have their own ideas for a 1st party SW game? fine. MS wants to make a SW game to tie in with gamepass? fine. None of these properties should be tied to any one publishers, not Star Wars, not Marvel, not Disney Pixar.
Honestly EA all we wanted was a decent single player story focused game.
Anyway, keep churning out those garbage Battlefield games instead.
Anyway, keep churning out those garbage Battlefield games instead.
Exactly lol
Ubisoft killed their 2016 sci-fi game? 2 pages on ERA
EA kills a SW game? I HATE EA, 20 PAGES on ERA
IT
IS
COMING THIS YEAR
Makes you wonder if the folks at Bioware are trying to figure out how Bungie got away from Activision. Not the same thing, I know, since I don't think Activision owned any part of Bungie. Still, it would be a godsend if EA just cut them loose instead of killing them outright.
Maxis has been tortured by EA (didn't just die, it was murdered™) to the point the veterans all left together years ago (after Simcity 4 and after Spore), now what remains of that team is solely working on The Sims for years. At best they could make a Star Wars Sims mobile game or Star Wars themed furniture for The Sims 4
At Criterion they are working on a new game but we haven't heard much of them in a while, besides that recent botched remaster for Burnout Paradise, they are maybe in trouble, same with Respawn.
They stopped caring about making good games a while ago, they're very much only interested into making more money.
I'm actually surprised this strategy worked for the most part, i thought the bad word of mouth would have hurted sales of their games more.
I don't care that somebody was bound to do this.
It needed to be done.
Don't forget Empire at War.
A lot of great Star Wars games made it to consoles too:
Knights of the Old Republic
The Sith Lords
LEGO Star Wars
Rogue Squadron
Rogue Leader
Starfighter
Jedi Starfighter
Pandemic's Battlefront games
Battle for Naboo
Republic Commando
and so on.
Do we have any idea wtf that is yet? Theres hasnt been anything shown i thought just leaked art work?
EA fell really hard this generation. IDK things aren't looking good for their studios...I hope Bioware and Dice are able to go independent.
EA would never do such a dirty thing, how dare you insinuate it!
How are you able to make that call?
It's way more likely that EA cancelled it because it was a single-player game with no possibility for microtransactions, DLC, etc.
Not to mention, I'd rather take an "ok" Star Wars single-player game than.....nothing.