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LucasArts Employees Hold Wake & Eulogy; Vader Still Roams
Dawn Kawamoto writes "LucasArts employees held a wake Friday night, days after Darth Vader Disney slayed their studio. Taking the high road, two LucasArts employees put together a eulogy that offers a retrospective on the culture, memories and accomplishments of the team. Most of us who've witnessed a blood bath at the workplace aren't as charitable. Darth Vader Disney is expected to strike again in the next two weeks at its studio and consumer product divisions."
Probably the Mousketeers. We already know an entire platoon of Stormtroopers can hit the broadside of a Deathstar even if they're standing in it.
LEGO Indiana Jones
LEGO Indiana Jones 2
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
Star Wars: Battlefront
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
Star Wars: Republic Commando
Tales of Monkey Island
All great LucasArts games released within the past 10 years.
Lucas sold out in 2012 because Disney gave him a butt load of cash. Don't kid yourself.
The author of the Dice "news story" and the "business intelligence story" is also the submitter. Dawn Kawamoto is a Dice employee who has had two story "submissions" accepted in the last three days. Her other one was the H-1B visa cap story, which notes her as "First time accepted submitter Dawn Kawamoto." She's not an accepted submitter, she's a shill for your corporate overlords, Timothy. Again, a story about people looking for jobs and how tough the market is.
Bottom line: if you see Kawamoto's name listed as the submitter, you know it's a Dice ad right away.
Dice: You bought slashdot. Fine. But if you're going to try to pass your content off as news, instead of sponsored content, people will leave and you will have wasted your money. If you want to post an ad, call it what it is. Deception will get you nowhere on this site. You said you weren't going to interfere with Slashdot's editorial independence. Honor your commitment.
LEGO Indiana Jones - Traveller's Tales
LEGO Indiana Jones 2 - Traveller's Tales
LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy - Traveller's Tales
Star Wars: Battlefront - Pandemic Studios
Star Wars: Battlefront II - Pandemic Studios
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy - Raven Software
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - BioWare
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - Obsidian Entertainment
Star Wars: Republic Commando - Lucas Arts
Tales of Monkey Island - Telltale Games
FTFY
All the games by Lucas Arts in the last 10 years:
2009: Lucidity
2003: RTX Red Rock
2005: Star Wars: Republic Commando
2008: part of "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed", amongst many other games studios, same with Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II in 2010
Holy crap, how do people manage to miss my point? I wasn't complaining that they expected employees to follow specific rules, I was pointing out the tone of the "training" which was extremely disrespectful, and the fact that it took less than 10 minutes on day one to be treated like crap by the management.
Yeah. I do have to agree with you here. The games that the teams at LucasArts themselves havn't really put out a decent game in 15 years. To be honest, that is never the fault of the employees who are getting canned, but the management who made bad decisions (either unrealistic deadlines, not enough talent, wrong kinds of talent, poor allocation of talent, bad game pitches/approvals).
Seriously, what other studio has been consistently been in the top 5-10 demands for a sequel and not even considered it (I'm talking about X-Wing/Tie Fighter here)? They didn't even consider it when Episode 1-3 came out. I mean, really? The Star Wars Universe just had a several billion reboot and you didn't take advantage by making a game which you can pilot the most bad-ass, and cool things which exist from it? Seriously? Yeah, the management had no clue, and as a result, it has been dead for a long time.
There once was a great game studio called LucasArts, who made some of the most innovative and cutting edge video games, X-Wing, Tie Fighter, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Manic Mansion, Metal Warriors, Monkey Island, Zombies Ate My Neighbors.... It turned into a Zombie about 15 years ago....
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"