If you’re unhappy with the current state of Star Wars games from EA, you may not be the only one, and we have the skinny on the two publishers Disney may be looking at to take over/supplement.  Come inside for the full scoop! 

Electronic Arts snagged the exclusive license deal to create and publish Star Wars games all the way back in 2013. In the time since, however, EA has struggled with the property. The first game they announced (and released), Star Wars Battlefront, suffered backlash with its lack of single-player campaign; launching with such little content that many became bored quickly. Subsequent DLC packs added a lot of great content, but by the end, everyone was waiting to see what was next. 

Battlefront II brought only more problems; despite making changes at the last minute, the launch was pretty rocky, and the whole debacle has brought a wave of attention down on "loot boxes" in gaming (with some Governments looking to crack down on the practice). EA's latest financial statements have shown the impact with sales down and failing to meet expectations. 

Star Wars is dominating the big screen, comics, and novels once again, but it's lacking big time in the games department.  While the constant stream of mobile titles have been decent enough, they don't quite scratch the itch for many gamers. Originally Lucasfilm went to EA because it was such a large company with many developers under their control; so they could potentially deliver more Star Wars games in a quicker amount of time. Five years in and only two games released (one of which is a sequel), with a couple others barely announced, the investment isn't paying off like they wanted.

Late last year, Visceral shut down and their long-gestating story driven, Star Wars game, codenamed "Ragtag," was scrapped (although it's assets/engine will be used for another game). This was a major blow, considering it was supposed to be EA's big Star Wars release in 2018 (which is looking barren now). With only a handful of other games currently in development but not ready to show...Fans are understandably disappointed and worried. 

From what I've heard Lucasfilm is upset as well and looking for other options. I've had a couple sources reach out to me about the current state of Star Wars gaming. According to them, Disney/LFL higher ups pulled EA to the "principal's office" to talk about what's going wrong (which is what others have reported as well).  Moreso, they've apparently reached out to both Ubisoft and Activision about developing Star Wars games. 

I know what you're thinking, because I had the same thoughts. EA has a contract for the games, exclusively. How could Disney get around that without breaching and causing more problems? I don't know all the technical aspects of it, but supposedly there's an addendum of some kind within the contract that would allow Disney to pull the license, or shop it around, if certain standards/conditions weren't being met. This type of clause isn't unheard of when dealing with big licenses (and what's bigger than Star Wars?), and with all the problems and lack of games it doesn't surprise me in the least that they're looking elsewhere.

Sadly, I don't have much more than that. Considering they're just talking about developing games with these major studios, it's not likely about anything specific. Perhaps it's a tactic to get EA back on the ball and pumping out games. Either way, I thought it was interesting enough, with sources I’ve trusted in the past, to share with you guys.  

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Espero que no se decanten por Activision que me parecen cortados por el mismo patrón que EA y coja la franquicia Ubisoft, vale que a veces la cagan con sus downgrades y los bugs pero en general me gustan mucho sus juegos y sagas.

Más juegos de rol y menos chuters onlain. Sólo pido eso, lo haga quien lo haga.

Un saludete

Pues seguramente una sea Square, que ya tienen conversaciones por Avengers Project y Kingdom Hearts.
Y otra... Pues a ver, no descartaría Koei Tecmo para un Musou, y tampoco descartaría a Bethesda, CDProjekt u otras para que busquen algún ARPG.

El caso es, que ojalá se alejen de EA cuanto antes. Me parece flipante que teniendo la IP más poderosa del mercado hayan sacado en 4 años dos juegos de mierda.
Que no quiero la hiperexplotación de los 90/00, pero cojones, que deberían haber podido sacar como poco algún juego que no fuera un puto FPS multijugador fallido porque piensan más en sangrar los bolsillos que en tratar de ofrecer un buen producto.

Encima cancelan el de Visceral. Y a saber como está el de Jade Raymond.

Un witcher 3 de jedis. Compráis?

Ojalá Yoda saltando por el Reino Champiñón .

A ver si es verdad y le quitan la licencia a EA.

(15-02-2018 00:26)[DNC] escribió:Pues seguramente una sea Square, que ya tienen conversaciones por Avengers Project y Kingdom Hearts.
Y otra... Pues a ver, no descartaría Koei Tecmo para un Musou, y tampoco descartaría a Bethesda, CDProjekt u otras para que busquen algún ARPG.

El caso es, que ojalá se alejen de EA cuanto antes. Me parece flipante que teniendo la IP más poderosa del mercado hayan sacado en 4 años dos juegos de mierda.
Que no quiero la hiperexplotación de los 90/00, pero cojones, que deberían haber podido sacar como poco algún juego que no fuera un puto FPS multijugador fallido porque piensan más en sangrar los bolsillos que en tratar de ofrecer un buen producto.

Encima cancelan el de Visceral. Y a saber como está el de Jade Raymond.

Hablan de UBI/Activision

(15-02-2018 08:16)zothenr escribió:Hablan de UBI/Activision

Pues pienso en un juego se Star Wars tipo el último Assassins Creed y me pongo palote

Disney no va a negociar individualmente juego por juego. Si eligieron a EA fue por la cantidad de estudios que tiene para poder trabajar en varios juegos a la vez. Al final, en 5 años, 2 juegos y uno continuación del otro. Así que están que trinan.

Me imagino que vieron esta lista y pensaron en estudios activos: