EA signs deal to license Star Wars games

[cmdrdredd]

But he was a BF2 fan!!!! Omg BF3 wasn't BF2 omg it sucks so bad!!! :angryface: Funny how many people hate EA. Any thread that mentions any game they even look at people freak out about them like they were the reason for the holocaust or some shit.

Heh heh. I knew a couple people who worked at EA for a short period of time. Not high up either, actually way down at the bottom. They weren't too thrilled with the environment and left. That doesn't mean I hate EA because a couple people I know didn't like how the work environment was, it also doesn't mean those people won't ever buy an EA game again. I dislike their DRM always online model, dislike online pass, dislike all the DLC we are nickle and dimed for. I dislike them buying the NFL license and making games I feel are rehashed year after year with poor quality. I dislike a lot of things EA does. However, I like some of the games they publish. I can buy the good games, avoid the bad ones and don't have to buy all the DLC. I loathe DLC for games I finished months and months ago because sometimes I uninstall them before a DLC pack I might be interested in is released or announced but that's on me.

Anyway there are reasons to dislike and maybe even hate EA but if the games are good enough I don't mind tossing down my cash on it if I'll enjoy it. If any good game released recently that I have purchased was published by them it would make no difference to me.

 

[blackened23]

Anyway there are reasons to dislike and maybe even hate EA but if the games are good enough I don't mind tossing down my cash on it if I'll enjoy it. If any good game released recently that I have purchased was published by them it would make no difference to me.

Precisely this. I don't like EA as a company. But, if they release a good game I will buy it. The hatred I see about EA is so beyond ridiculous, sometimes. Just vote with your wallet without going into forum hyperbole overload.

 

[mindcycle]

Well it's kind of fitting actually. With all the blatant milking of the Star Wars franchise we've seen in recent years, microtransactions, pay2win/free2play, social/mobile throwaway"ware", is just the next logical step..

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Remember...

 

[irishScott]

What's the bet it'll be Star Wars: The New Republic in a few years.

Looks like my hopes for a space-sim reboot are crushed. Maybe they'll take a cue from Roberts Space Industries that there still is massive demand (since the original campaigns ended they've gotten millions more in sporadic donations, up to 9.5 million now), but I doubt it.

EA might, MIGHT release a decent Star Wars game, but I doubt it.

 

[Maximilian]

EA is the only company with the potential to completely 100% ruin a game before development has even started.


We all know it will be trash.





How are those simcity patches coming along?

Yeah... this...

Might as well add star wars to EA's bodycount

 

[Stringjam]

I would be just as happy if the whole IP died forever.

I'm sick of all this 20-30 year-old stuff just getting made over and over and over.

I'm sick of "spiritual successors" as well.

How about somebody show half-an-ounce of creativity and DEVELOP A COMPLETELY NEW STORY???

Ah well.....I guess with Star Citizen coming out, I have a little something to look forward to on that front.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'm sick of "spiritual successors" as well.

Ah well.....I guess with Star Citizen coming out, I have a little something to look forward to on that front.

Irony meter explodes.

XCom is great, so is Bioshock Infinite. Torment, Wasteland 2 and Eternity will hopefully live up to their potential.

 

[frozentundra123456]

What's the bet it'll be Star Wars: The New Republic in a few years.

Looks like my hopes for a space-sim reboot are crushed. Maybe they'll take a cue from Roberts Space Industries that there still is massive demand (since the original campaigns ended they've gotten millions more in sporadic donations, up to 9.5 million now), but I doubt it.

EA might, MIGHT release a decent Star Wars game, but I doubt it.

I doubt it as well. There was such a demand at one time for KOTOR 3, but all we got was an MMO and two lame Force Unleashed games. I dont really know why they never made it, unless maybe they did not want to take attention away from TOR (yea, that worked out well).

Anyway, if there is a company I have less respect for than EA it is now Bioware, after what they did to Dragon Age and Mass Effect. So I have no real hope for anything good coming of this.

 

[TheSlamma]

Last good games, Jedi Knight and Tie Fighter.

unfortunately there isn't' really a big loss here, you would hope there was, but it's just been junk title after junk title.

 

[Stringjam]

Irony meter explodes.

XCom is great, so is Bioshock Infinite. Torment, Wasteland 2 and Eternity will hopefully live up to their potential.

I guess what I'm trying to get at......I would like to see some totally new, GREAT stories that stand on their own, and that don't have their identity steeped in something developed a decade or more ago.

 

[blackened23]

I guess what I'm trying to get at......I would like to see some totally new, GREAT stories that stand on their own, and that don't have their identity steeped in something developed a decade or more ago.

Hmm. I'm somewhat indifferent on the issue. A good game is a good game is a good game - if a spiritual successor to an old franchise were released - and it's actually a good game, i'll definitely play it despite being an old franchise.

This is a big issue in the games industry, however. New franchises are very risky propositions, especially if they are high budget AAA titles. Because development costs have skyrocketed in the past 5 years, fewer publishers are willing to take chances on a new franchise.

 

[shortylickens]

I HATE EA!!


/dramaqueens



When was the last decent Star Wars game put out?

KOTOR 2, and decent is the operative word, cuz it was an excellent game with quest breaking bugs and big holes.

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

I want to see a Star Wars MMOFPS, with lessons learned from Planetside 2. But if there ever was one, with EA in control, it will be full of on rails stuff with gameplay designed to make it more like a cinematic than a war.

 

[stlcardinals]

I would be just as happy if the whole IP died forever.

I'm sick of all this 20-30 year-old stuff just getting made over and over and over.

I'm sick of "spiritual successors" as well.

How about somebody show half-an-ounce of creativity and DEVELOP A COMPLETELY NEW STORY???

Ah well.....I guess with Star Citizen coming out, I have a little something to look forward to on that front.

http://everythingisaremix.info/

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Lets be honest guys, Lucas Arts wasn't doing anything good with Star Wars any ways.

 

[DarkKnightDude]

If they could finally start working on a Battlefront game I'd forgive them. Like the above poster said, its not like Lucas Arts has been making decent games in awhile.

 

[irishScott]

Lets be honest guys, Lucas Arts wasn't doing anything good with Star Wars any ways.

No, but we could hope Disney would license it out to someone who could actually make decent video games. Now EA has an exclusive license to produce Star Turds.

 

[blackened23]

No, but we could hope Disney would license it out to someone who could actually make decent video games. Now EA has an exclusive license to produce Star Turds.

Oh boy, here comes the forum hyperbole again.

 

[BladeVenom]

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

 

[irishScott]

Oh boy, here comes the forum hyperbole again.

Or truth that you just don't like. At the end of the day EA is out for money over quality. That will generally produce inferior quality games catered to the lowest common denominator.

 

[Zenoth]

They'll most likely be publishing the game(s) based on (or directly depicting the events of) the next Star Wars trilogy starting with Episode VII. I mean the article is clear indeed, it does mention that they will publish Star Wars games but I'm thinking that they might not try something "new" (I.E. new stories not related to the movies or the Star Wars "canon") and will instead simply publish games based on the next trilogy.

It's a sure way to get quick bucks for sure, plenty of Star Wars gamers (probably not "fans" but gamers anyway, but probably fans too) won't mind that there's EA involved and will just buy it and then complain nonetheless. Not just "because it's EA" but also because the game themselves will suck "because they are Star Wars games" that happen not to be KOTOR or TIE Fighter. My point is... despite what anyone may think of EA it is a true fact that there's a really bad karma following Star Wars video games quality, we had our very few gems but most of them (not the gems, but I mean the rest) quite literally suck major balls to say the least (regardless of EA's involvement or complete abscence of said sucky Star Wars games).

Well at least in general Star Wars games are better than Star Trek ones... ugh (just to think about it...)

Super Star Wars trilogy (SNES)
X-Wing
TIE Fighter
Dark Forces
Shadows of the Empire (N64, and it was awesome, supposedly the PC version sucks though)
Rogue Squadron series (N64/GameCube)
Episode I: Racer (hey it wasn't bad!)
The Phantom Menace (the game, that is, on the PS1, and yes I liked it, hate me now)
Galactic Battlegrounds (one of the best for me)
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Battlefront II
Republic Commando
The Force Unleashed (ok now I'm a candidate for torture, right?)
Knights of the Old Republic
Revenge of the Sith (the game, that is, and again yes I liked it, played it on XBOX)

Now this is a decent list. I wish the same could be said about Star Trek ('cause I love Star Trek, but not the video games). Although now of course LucasArts is pretty much gone and Raven Software is history, not to mention that BioWare aren't whom they used to be and The Old Republic sucks. Not sure what's going to happen, but I sure don't have "a new hope" regarding the future of quality of Star Wars games. But I plead guilty since I did include The Force Unleashed in my list, because yes I really liked it (it's just the PC port itself that sucks balls), so who knows maybe one day I'll have to admit that "I liked a Star Wars game published by EA and developed by a dev team whom happen to also have succumbed to the Dark side of the Force" (for example if BioWare were to develop another Star Wars flop for EA, then I'd be happy to yet again point at them both for failing at a common goal).

 

[blackened23]

Or truth that you just don't like. At the end of the day EA is out for money over quality. That will generally produce inferior quality games catered to the lowest common denominator.

I seriously laughed after reading this, you really do sound silly. Truth that I don't like. Hahah, I really don't care at all. I just think you sound ridiculous and i'm calling you out on it, nothing more nothing less. Every game EA makes is inferior. Alrighty then. Some of them, maybe, but what you are stating is nothing more subjective drivel driven by hatred for a corporation. If you say so, if-you-say-so.

They've published some good games and some bad ones. And then they had some real stinkers like the newest SimCity. I don't have any loyalty or hatred to a corporation though, even if it's one I don't like: I just games solely on their merit. If it's good, i'll say it's good. I thought bf3, crysis 3 and Dead Space 3 were good games. Similarly, even though I don't like Apple the corporation, I like their products and i'll state that I like their products. Yet, I can go to a forum here where 13 year old children will argue about how much Apple "sucks". Blah blah blah blah. More subjective nonsense based on hatred for a company, I hope you see how silly it is. They're just freaking video games. Who cares. You can argue until you're blue in the face about how those were not good games, and I ultimately don't care. Your truth is nothing more than subjective drivel driven by pedantic hatred for a firm.

Now if they're producing games that you think are inferior, definitely vote with your wallet. I'm a big proponent of spending cash wisely, regardless of who the publisher is. I just don't have an irrational and childish hate towards a for-profit company. All firms are out to get your dollar. If you don't like their actions, vote with your wallet.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

EA does not have a good track record recently at all.

BF3 does suck, and I'm not the only one that thinks so. It's simplistic banter where you run around and get to super soldier things and get a pin for every thing you do. Good job soldier, here is a medal! Step back from BF2 and 1942.

ME3, while good 99% of the way, sucked so bad in the last 1% that it completely ruined the franchise because of the shitty ending that spit in the face of the fans. Oooo ooga booga space magic! Granted they did fix it in the later DLC but that was them trying to save face. A step back from ME2 and ME1.

EA, like LucasArts, cares more about deadlines/$$$ than quality (which actually helps sales).

Ok, now comment on Call of Duty keeping in mind the context of the bolded statement you made.

(BF3 is like rocket science compared to COD these days.)



Honestly, EA has some great studios that they could get on board to make these games. I read one article that said Bioware, DICE, and Visceral are all signed on for Star Wars games already.

In case you were wondering that should equate to KOTOR, Battlefront, and (maybe jedi knight? Visceral does third person action very well.) All on the best tech available. What engine that is owned by another publisher would you want a star wars game on? UE3? Barf... I'll take Frostbite and Cryengine all day.

I seriously don't get the hate for EA's games. You confuse their business practices with the quality of their titles. I've played more quality EA titles than most other publishers lately.

 

[irishScott]

I seriously laughed after reading this, you really do sound silly. Truth that I don't like. Hahah, I really don't care at all. I just think you sound ridiculous and i'm calling you out on it, nothing more nothing less. Every game EA makes is inferior. Alrighty then. Some of them, maybe, but what you are stating is nothing more subjective drivel driven by hatred for a corporation. If you say so, if-you-say-so.

They've published some good games and some bad ones. And then they had some real stinkers like the newest SimCity. I don't have any loyalty or hatred to a corporation though, even if it's one I don't like: I just games solely on their merit. If it's good, i'll say it's good. I thought bf3, crysis 3 and Dead Space 3 were good games. Similarly, even though I don't like Apple the corporation, I like their products and i'll state that I like their products. Yet, I can go to a forum here where 13 year old children will argue about how much Apple "sucks". Blah blah blah blah. More subjective nonsense based on hatred for a company, I hope you see how silly it is. They're just freaking video games. Who cares. You can argue until you're blue in the face about how those were not good games, and I ultimately don't care. Your truth is nothing more than subjective drivel driven by pedantic hatred for a firm.

Now if they're producing games that you think are inferior, definitely vote with your wallet. I'm a big proponent of spending cash wisely, regardless of who the publisher is. I just don't have an irrational and childish hate towards a for-profit company. All firms are out to get your dollar. If you don't like their actions, vote with your wallet.

Apparently you care a decent bit to type out all that just to try and put words in my mouth and thoughts in my brain. When you're done jerking off to yourself:

I qualified with "generally", if you'll re-read that post. EA has made some quality games, but those are the exception to the rule, and usually not so much as a result of EA but of whatever talent is left in their latest acquisition.

If I was a betting man, I'd bet that the next Star Wars game from EA will be mediocre at best. That's just simple odds from the games they've released. Add in EA's apparent corporate philosophies and the odds get even worse.

Unless you're one of those rare people who like the majority of EA's catalog, you're arguing with math.

Just because you don't get passionate about video games doesn't mean it's wrong for other people to. Star Wars is an awesome universe with a lot of potential, potential EA is likely to squander. There's no shame or immaturity in bemoaning the wasted potential of something you enjoy.

And when there are companies like Valve and CD Projekt Red, who are making TONS of money and are known for making quality products, I think EA has well-earned their reputation. They're the Walmart of video game publishers at this point. Occasionally you'll see something good but most of it is just mediocre, one-size-fits-all lowest-common-denominator stuff, and you usually don't go there if you're looking for something nice.