EA: 'We’re Fully Committed to Making More Star Wars Games' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 March 2019 / 3,081 Views
It was reported this week that Electronic Arts has cancelled the open world Star Wars game that was in development at EA Vancouver.
An Electronic Arts representative speaking with Variety has stated the publisher is still committed to working on Star Wars games.
"There’s been speculation overnight about one of our Star Wars projects," said the representative. "As a natural part of the creative process, the great work by our team in Vancouver continues and will evolve into future ‘Star Wars’ content and games. We’re fully committed to making more ‘Star Wars’ games, we’re very excited about ‘Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order’ from Respawn, and we’ll share more about our new projects when the time is right."
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If Bungie has been able to escape from their contract with Activision, I don't know why Disney, freaking Disney, could not do the same with EA. For the sake of the license, they need good will as soon as possible.
Disney just wants money.
Pretty sure Disney can pull the plug When ever they need to. But EA might be begging them to give them more chances.
Depending on who you ask, Disney's not doing much better with the license either...
EA next SW game will be a shitty multiplayer focused game, filled with micro transactions. No idea what fallen order is, probably more EA trash never the less.
Skikamaru - Here's hoping, but this is EA.
I mean that sounds amazing but so does a lot of what EA produces when you first hear about it, then it comes out and you see what EA did to it.
I genuinely cannot think of an IP more tailor-made for video game adaptations across multiple genres than Star Wars. This has been a level of incompetence that's truly difficult to fathom.
Honestly that's the fate of a lot of great IPs that start as movies. Look at Harry Potter. There has not been a good Harry Potter game. There's no reason for that.
Yeah, mobile and F2P games maybe. The days of you doing AAA games without MT's is done and dusted EA. You've brought so many studios and IP's to the ground that it honestly doesn't matter what you say at this point.
Please don't.
They are excited about SW as long as they can tarnish it with their anti-consumer practices.
Well at this stage, Star Wars and EA are a perfect fit for each other. I'll happily ignore EA games, and I'll happily ignore Star Wars stuff. And now, I can ignore both at the same time :D
Yeah they are also committed to being the septic ulcer of the games industry.
Maybe this will prompt Disney to get back into the game development business. Frankly, I think it's strange that they ever left the business. It's fantasy entertainment, which, it would seem, is right up their alley.
Great..... more SW games under EA, i am thrilled sarcasm
Battlefront III Confirmed.
Hah!
Yeah right...
Uh huh.......
Was this the game that Amy Hennig was working on? Can't remember.
No they already cancelled that game when they closed Visceral. They gave the assets of that cancelled project to EA Vancouver. Now they've cancelled that game too.
Ah, well thank you for the information
Gonna have to download the X1X versions of KOTOR I think.
All those old Star Wars games you mentioned likely had numerous developers and spent less money on development. I mean we have higher expectations for Star Wars games today. Regardless, I'd love to see some new Star Wars games that isn't just Battlefront and I'm losing faith in EA to get that done.
Thank God it's almost over. Just 4 more years of this. So help me God, Disney, if you give these assholes the license again I'll never forgive you. I'd rather it be exclusive to any of the big three platform holders than for EA to get the rights again. Why can't Disney just publish the games themselves and make deals directly with developers?
Absolutely that's exactly what they should do. Though I'm not sure Disney knows what they're doing with the Star Wars IP anyway, so...
