Lucasfilm Games Begins a New Era
New social channels, a sizzle reel, and more herald the bright future of Lucasfilm Games.
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I'm still not entirely certain what this means, honestly.
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Star Wars games appear to be adopting "Lucasfilm Games" for their primary branding
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I'm still not entirely certain what this means, honestly.
Maybe now Lucasfilm will be publishing all the games themselves and hiring companies to make the games? 🤔
I guess it's just the creative side of Lucasarts that helps in all the games, but I wonder if its a first step to publish their own games.
If it means we're already going to see a move towards a "Marvel Games"-like strategy, where various publishers can create games for a variety of hardware, I'm all for it.
EA's 10 year monopoly on the Star Wars brand can't expire fast enough!
EA's 10 year monopoly on the Star Wars brand can't expire fast enough!
'Lucasfilm' probably carries more brand recognition with the common player.
I'm pretty sure they have a few games still in the pipeline. As for of its renewed or not, who knows. We wouldn't see any non EA Star Wars games for years and years tho
Please let the license expire and let Star Wars be developed by anyone.
EA completely squandered the license this gen
EA completely squandered the license this gen
Fallen Order sold really well. If they make a well selling sequel i can see them (EA) getting a renewal.
Do we have any clue how many players The Old Republic has these days? Always shocked when I remember it is alive still.
If they're going the Marvel strategy of licensing the IP out to different publishers then it makes sense. Maybe Ron Gilbert can get Monkey Island. I know he said he wanted to buy but I doubt Disney will sell.
Welp... so 2023 huh... guess they'll ship one more battlefront and jedi fallen order sequel by then...
From what I remember, EA have the license until 2023 bar something really surprising happening (and I mean REALLY if they didn't take it away post-Battlefront II). I wonder if this hints at their plans to go the Marvel Games route of licensing individual games. This could also be the work of John Drake who left PlayStation to go work on video game licensing for Disney.
I doubt a lot of AAA studios would want to work with Disney/Lucasfilm once they see the licensing fee and strict oversight they would have to undergo while developing the title. Unless Lucasfilm drops their "everything is canon" and "we must approve everything" approach then even if EA's license exclusivity isn't renewed I don't see a lot of developers lining up to pitch SW titles.
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I'd love to see it back but I guess the reason why they didn't is because I see no indication this new brand will actually develop any games themselves.
I don't get why they didn't do this to begin with.
Make Lucasarts/Lucasfilm Games a central hub and allow developers to pitch concepts while working in tandem with Lucasfilm and Kennedy to make certain continuity isn't fucked with.
Imagine giving not only large developers but smaller indies the chance to make SW games.
Bingo.
People will always miss this point. Disney is extremely protective and everything has to be canon and they need permission for literally everything and without a publisher backing the project Disney is never going to reach out to an indipendent developer and fund his game because they don't want to. They killed their gaming division for this reason.
This just means the games division has a new (old) name, which is Lucasfilm Games.
There are still Star Wars games being made at EA.
There are still Star Wars games being made at EA.
That is true. The stuff Jason Schrier shared regarding the canned visceral game makes it sound like a very difficult process to make Star Wars games. But I would hope for more variety than EA only putting out 5 Star Wars games with multiple cancelations and 2 of those games having serious issues at launch
I just discovered that LucasArts used to be called Lucasfilm games from 1982-1990
I think what's going to set the tone is once we see what eventually this means for the likes of the rumored "KOTOR remake" and the like.
If we can get proof positive that Lucasfilm is okay with games that are allowed to do their own thing, but are either a) localized within their own niche and/or b) eventually have distinct "canon" paths that will only minimally affect what goes on in the universe in the rest of timeline, it may not matter as much.
For example, as far as the new SW canon is concerned, Revan was only just a "Sith Lord that existed in the past". Whatever the hell else that means for the universe is left up to question.
Makes sense. In addition, I am sure the EA branding was doing more damage to the Star Wars IP than helping it...hence why Lucasfilm decided not to renew their expensive contract with EA...
I wonder what EA thinks of this...no more Disney $$$$
As much as I despise what they did to AC, I still maintain that we would have at least 2 or 3 open world star wars games had ubisoft got the license.
They said several in November. So I'm guessing at least 3 more games
