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Petition Wants Lucasfilm to Revoke EA’s Star Wars License (Update: 150,000 signatures passed)
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Right. But I was talking about Travellers Tales who make single player Lego Star Wars games. Deal was signed in early 2012. That's what the person I quoted was asking about.
That was my question earlier in the thread. Why would anyone want to make licensed games in 2017? Outside of sports games and shovelware, they're money losers. The only licensed games that exist come from developers owned by the IP holders. WB with DC games, and Sony with Spiderman.
At least Ubisoft are able to push out quality single player games.
I generally find this sort of community petition embarrassing. I still signed. I know the devs are dealing with license restrictions and head/tailwinds of industry trends bigger than any one franchise, but I don't care. The last several releases, and almost all the PR around it, have hurt my impression of the license. I'm pre-disposed to some level of distaste for any future EA Star Wars game. The ways the publisher tried to structure the monetization, and the ways they repeatedly tried to pitch it to players, was a bridge too far for me.
Which is a bummer, because it's a franchise that's otherwise so suited to great gameplay scenarios, and EA has proven in the past how good they can be at making great experiences.
Which is a bummer, because it's a franchise that's otherwise so suited to great gameplay scenarios, and EA has proven in the past how good they can be at making great experiences.
I can't decide if it's better or worse than being a Rick & Morty fan.
So basically you're self aware enough to see the absolute ridiculousness of petitions like this but signed anyway in order to make yourself feel better about a video game license?
Wow, that's amazing. Disney is already paying 3 billion to break the contract as we speak right now
Jedi: Fallen Order is their last chance of redemption for me. The game needs to be a fucking revelation.
Pretty much.
"Re-write all the women out of Little Women, or kiss your cushy 19th-century serial contract goodbye. We, the real™ readers, won't be ignored."
Literally yes. It's a flippant way to get across annoyance. It's rightfully non-binding, but a way to share how I felt about pretty core bits of how the business side has been handled.
If someone had exclusive rights to a popular brand of cars for racing games, and structured their retail model in a way I didn't like, I'd be annoyed. If a company had exclusive rights to Street Fighter merch, and they had bad fulfillment/shipping pricing, I'd be annoyed. It's like that.
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i only met one in real life and he was a real asshole
9/11 conspiracy theorist who thought he was truly enlightened about it
I signed, and at the very least, a 200k signed petition is enough to get noticed and embarrass EA.
I really don't like EA. I havn't bought one of their games since Titanfall 2.
I really don't like EA. I havn't bought one of their games since Titanfall 2.
They've already been embarrassed by the lootbox fiasco, and since they they've announced more content for Battlefront and a whole new SW game. In comparison to that, an angry internet petition is a drop in the bucket.
Battlefront II did miss sales targets. Not by much, no, and it still sold a good amount, but hey, it's possible those 200k people actually will not buy Respawn's Jedi game. I know I won't be buying it, though I also haven't bought an EA game since ME3.
For me it's not even about that. It's solid now. But they fugged up royally from the start. It's about having a more open license, and not only getting a single MP only focused game every few years from EA.
I thought I was a huge SW fan until I realized that one of the requirements was being insufferable about anything related to the franchise. Everything from the "Lucas raped my childhood," to the recent whining about female leads and petitions to remake TLJ, I've realized I'm not mentally unstable enough to be a "true" fan.
Staw Wars was the first movie I ever saw, I've seen the movies literally hundreds of times, and they indelibly shaped my interests and who I am today, but I'll never again lump myself in with the embarassment that is the SW fanbase, even for this. Disney will do what they think is right with the license when it comes time, until then it's not worth getting worked up about it.
Staw Wars was the first movie I ever saw, I've seen the movies literally hundreds of times, and they indelibly shaped my interests and who I am today, but I'll never again lump myself in with the embarassment that is the SW fanbase, even for this. Disney will do what they think is right with the license when it comes time, until then it's not worth getting worked up about it.
Disney has a lot of money but remember this is for their video game division of star wars games. Maybe they don't look at it as being really important.
It's not that simple. Neither of the IPs even remotely match SW as an IP.
Look at all these people who Disney and EA don't care about, since tons of money was exchanged in the exclusivity deal...
As a symbolic gesture, this is really quite nice. The way EA has managed the license has been absolutely shameful. This won't change anything, of course, but as a thermometer for fan displeasure I'm fully behind this sort of thing.
If this go through they should give it to Ubisoft.
Ubisoft would give us the open world star wars I have always wanted.
Ubisoft would give us the open world star wars I have always wanted.
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