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EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For
An anonymous reader writes "Electronic Arts announced today it has landed an exclusive multi-year agreement to develop and publish games based on Lucasfilms' Star Wars universe. EA said the it will create and publish Star Wars games for a 'core gaming audience' across 'all popular platforms' and genres. The EA studios creating those 'core' Star Wars games are Battlefield developer DICE, Dead Space developer Visceral Games and Mass Effect house BioWare."
Now all EA games will come with free misery AND a Force Choke...
Crap
I really can't see how the best parts of Star Wars will shine through all the Disney marketing money machine.
Seems to me that grinding out more shallow plot movies will just turn it into something like the Disney princesses series of movies. I guess that's the idea.
Make it happen.
"Old man yells at systemd"
This deal is getting worse all the time.
And with Electronic Arts, I guess they found one.
... just waiting for the best of the Star Wars quotes to float to the top now ...
http://nooooooooooooooo.com
It had to be said.
Solving Unix problems since 1989...
And so the lineage of mostly-forgettable Star Wars games continues unabated...
I gave up on buying anything made by EA. I hope Disney changes their mind about tethering themselves to a sinking ship, but if not, it's not like there has ever been a must have Star Wars game.
I can see the tie-ins now... Star Wars Sims: Make your Ewok's spend less time brushing their teeth with Crest!
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
Why go with a company who has been making the news for broken games and abrasive customer service? Are executives at Disney really ok with taking such a big risk on such a valuable property?
Is there really anything different about this, other than who manages the projects? Given this list of studios, it seems unlikely anything will change as far as the kinds of Star Wars game projects that get approved.
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
EA sux and their games dont work
EA's DRM will now stand for Darkside Rights Management
Didn't they already fuck up the latest and greatest WoW-killer MMO of the decade SW:TOR?
What makes you think EA will have money to pay you when they go under later this decade Disney?
Or are you angling to be a primary creditor and take properties off their hands?
Profit!
Time to buy some stock!
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
Since EA said it would require Simcity to be always on (Yeah, I predicted correctly that shit would hit the fan at launch just like Diablo 3) I started boycotting EA. Luckily I`ll always have the back catalog of awesome Star War games. Farewell Star Wars games, may the force be with you. And I`m not talking about Starforce.
This combination doesn`t exist: ETIs that know about humanity and want to see us dead. Otherwise we wouldn't exist.
Every one hates you, you have nothing but bad PR with the geek segment.
Do a good job, make a great tie fight /x wing game. Don't DRM it to death, stay true to the source, adult but not gratuitous. hire some good screen writers.
Don't attempt to micro transition it to death. Think more season pass more campaigns new ships for 20 bucks a year if you must have that to sell to the overlords. Sell on the fact that this is a great PR move, that for 1 great nostalgic game fans will forgive forget a bunch or well idiot ones.
Get old pc gamers to say " It was like playing the old game, updated but with that same feel" and you will have 75% of the people that want to split you an roast you like a pig, trampling over themselves thanking you.
Because the death of Lucas Arts wasn't painful enough for Star Wars fans, we can now look forward to all future Star Wars games being in the Origin-only, Rootkit-DRM enabled, online-at-all-times failboat that is EA's formula. Or is my lack of faith disturbing?
Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
But which is EA, the master or the apprentice
Don't the derps in charge of making these arrangements keep up on things. You just signed a deal with a company where just a few weeks back, gamers were practically dancing in the streets over their financial woes due to EA's douchebaggery.
Are you sure you want to go through with this foolishness?
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Say goodbye to modding any star wars games, and hello to paying through the nose for DLC.
Oh well. I just hope they re-make X-Wing.
As a casual Star Wars fan, I've tried to stay upbeat about the sale of Star Wars to Disney. After all, as my friends and I keep telling each other, "It can't actually be worse than the prequels, right?" But I've watched announcement after announcement with trepidation. J.J. Abrams directing? Clone Wars unceremoniously canceled and the people making it let go? Now the universally-loathed EA is to be in charge of the gaming wing of the franchise? (I'm expecting Disney to cancel Dark Horse's comics license as soon as they legally can, if not sooner.) Star Wars has had a great many ups and downs over the years, but there have been some amazing stories along the way. I fear that the Mouse is going to steamroller that whole universe into bland commercialism for the rest of my life.
Is this really a surprise to anyone at this point? Disney bought SW and then announced that, with the help of Metamucil, Golytely, and plenty of fiber, were going to shit out at one movie a year. Since they obviously are hoping to milk the franchise fans for all they are worth, why not then partner with the video game maker whose sole mission is to milk fans for all they're worth as well?
It's a perfect match made in hell.
Finally they've found a developer that's as evil as the Empire to make the games.
Who cares? This franchise is way past its sell-by date.
Looking forward to the new Honor Harrington movie.
Lucas's legacy that is.
One can argue that it died with the making of episodes 1-3 and George Lucas' monetization push of the past ten or so years, but I think this is the last nail in the coffin. All that's left is the dissolution of ILM, and that will sound like dirt hitting wood.
How to ruin a good thing: sell it to Disney. I don't expect quality offerings from Pixar anymore either, especially after the atrocity that was Brave.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Bwhahahahahahahahahaha....
fitler is lameness
If you liked any star wars games call them dead if EA is taking them over. They will ruin them just like they did with Nascar Racing. Last good Nascar game was 2003 when Papyrus was still around. EA bought the rights, released one version and it sucked. Hasn't released anything in years.
Farewell Star Wars games, may the force be with you. And I`m not talking about Starforce.
I don't get it. What does a vertical shooter by Tecmo have to do with Star Wars or EA?
Once upon a time, I remember Disney used to (maybe still? haven't paid attention) do things like rotate out the availability of its classic cartoon movies in order to retain value through scarcity.
Now, they're going to over-saturate the market with Star Wars games 'cause they're way too eager to get their money back from their new acquisition.
Get ready for Angry Ewoks on the mobile side, and Lara Skywalker on the pc / console side.
As EA has done with so many properties it contracts for, they completely devalued the game of Scrabble with their horrible port. With that example as a predictor of what they'll do with the Star Wars property, we can look forward to seeing a third party's massive success marketing "Laser Swords with Friends" across FaceBook and iOS.
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One game in and Disney will be pulling a Job Bluth... "I've made a huge mistake." EA is a garbage company full of sell out developers.
lol
That is all.
Really.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Hey suckers, find a new franchise to jerk off to.
Anyone else read "EA will create & publish Star Wars games" as "EA will create & punish Star Wars gamers"?
In that shit sandwich, EA would just be the poo cherry topping.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
The only good news out of all of this is the possibillity of new Bioware KOTOR games
Lol! You can not defeat all of my incarnations!
It's GOB, as in George Oscar Bluth Jr.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
The games will be so bad they'll make the terrible movies look not completely awful.
You guys all sound like you need Prozac.
... More stuff for me to ignore from EA, aside from mocking them.
Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult.
No more star wars for me...
makes me want to call and ask to drop disney channel and maybe ESPN.
That's all I want, not another Star Wars: Battlefront game. KOTOR was great, but I don't need another one. XW and TF were 2 of the greatest games ever made. X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter was a letdown and X-Wing Alliance, while good, wasn't as good as its predecessors.
Given the supernova suns DICE implemented in Battlefield 3 plus J.J. working on the next Star Wars movie, the DICE Star Wars game is going to require sunglasses to play. If you want to save your eyesight, that is.
... presumably "core gaming audience" is some sort of code for "people who wouldn't know a decent game if it bit them on the arse".
And, yes, it's spelt "arse", none of that confusing it with donkey-type critters that you yanks seem so fond of :-)
And, yes, it's spelt "spelt", despite what the stupid spelling checker thinks :-)
...that Disney deserves.
RIP
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
There hasn't been a good game out of Lucas Arts in years. SWTOR was a crapfest and nothing else came from them in recent memory that was remotely good. EA will create more craptastic star wars tie ins while watering down the brand and it will be like star trek games, they always come close but never really do it right.
I guess Star Wars games had to suck eventually.
"These are not the droids you are looking for."
For the foreseeable future will be absolute crap.
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
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Wooohooo crazy on the hook now, going to reel you in...
Give it up, Jesus Christ commands you!
Yes, that's right.
JC = Jeremiah Cornelius
JC = Jherek Carnelian
JC = Jesus Christ
You can not win!!!
Did EA decide they were innovating too much already and wanted to go for a beaten-up franchise?
Did they felt envious of the one franchise that had more sequels than Madden?
Another gaming franchise I will not be able to play because of EA's Origin crap. :(
But then you'd miss Gravity Falls which pretty good.
I mean, come on!
The whole story is about how great it is to fight the Evil Empire.
Clone Wars was largely about showing the inner workings of state corruption.
The Dark Side had to step in...
1. Melt Lucas' brain.
2. Seed corruption in the franchise. Over-sell it and annoy its once VERY enthusiastic fan base.
3. Give it to Disney and Fucking Abrams, two entities which are fully in bed with the US Empire and its goals. (Abrams is pro-torture ffs. Have you seen Alias?
Star Wars, if played right, could have had a very positive impact on the direction of global American policy and the awareness level of its population.
It absolutely had to be destroyed. And now that has happened. Threat extinguished.
Star Trek, another piece of once extremely positive culture, has also been given the same treatment. It now serves the Empire.
Up next: Superman.
Clearly they didn't check to see how fans felt about EA. I mean, they did such a fantastic job with their latest release of SimCity!
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/01
Will EA develop games for Motorola smartphones?
Or are those not the Droids Disney is looking for?
(T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously though, this a huge disappointment.
"On a scale from 1 to 10, people are stupid"
Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don't listen to him. Remember that - do not listen.
I cast you out, unclean spirit!
It's the power of Christ! The power of Christ compels you!
Ok, it's on the title, you are asking why Disney got with EA. But when you post stuff with such generic terms, it's hard to discover that you are not talking about EA going with Disney.
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I find your lack of faith ... spot fucking on! This decision is the first Disney has made with respect to the new companies it has acquired that is a major mistake. And I am by _NO_ means a Disney fan. I'd like to see the company die on the vine - or at least lose all patent/copyright protections after the original 17 year period those works were created under.
Dream as if you'll live forever.
Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
~Anonymous~
So I guess I'll have to be online to play any new Star Wars single player game and call it a 'feature'.
Palpatine said...
This isn't a story EA would tell you.... It's a Sith legend.
"Darth Riccitiello was a Dark Lord of the Sith so powerful and so wise, he could use EA to influence the midi-chlorians to make...games. He had such a knowledge of the Dark Side, he could even keep the game studios he cared about...from dying.
He became so powerful, the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power...which, eventually of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice (who works for Disney) everything he knew. Then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Riccitiello never saw it coming.
Ironic."
True Story...
Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d encule de ta mere.
EA and Hitler would have gotten along great. Both hated by most of the planet. :(
I'm old, not dead. Well that's my 2 cents worth, your mileage may vary. I say what I think, not what you want to hear.
If the developers of Battlefield, Dead Space, and Mass Effect are creating the new Star wars games, then theres no way it could end up all that bad. These guys created some of the most successful games to date. just because they are working under EA and Disney doesn't mean these new games will be any different.
Dude you are insane. There is no point in arguing with an insane person, but look at that page you keep posting that you think is evidence...
All the links have [hostname.com] on them. That means JC cut-n-pasted from the post he was responding to. The real spammer has the original text and never doubles up the [hostname.com] stuff. Go and look at all the other posts of that same junk, they are all different.
I'm sure you'll take it as proof of your conspiracies, but I had to give you a chance.
No, I'm the "real spammer" and I don't think it is funny at all!!!
Who are you to impersonate me?
$100,000,000 for the rights.
I'm not sure what kind of proof I can offer, but here's a screenshot of my apk folder with timestamps going back to August around the time the fun started.
I do hope that EA replaces the "There Is A Problem With Your Connection" error with that one for this game. It has always amused me how EA and DICE deftly focused their own failings back upon the user with that message. Buyers of this game will be sure to see it, too, as EA will certainly play it's usual "shave off 40% of the suckers by taking their money and then locking them out of the game until they give up trying to play it" ruse.
If they were an automaker, EA would be whomever designed the Trabant.
OK, that looks very convincing. We can both be "the real spammer" our name is legion!!!!
I agree. You can say what you want about Origin, DRM, constant DLC, running franchises into the ground with uninspired sequels, and any of a thousand other reasons to hate EA, but at the end of the day Bioware, DICE, and Visceral Games are all very competent developers that know how to make very solid and fairly polished games. I dislike EA as much as the next gamer (OK, maybe not as EA has so many rabid anti-fanboys) and while I would love to see any other publisher get the Star Wars license, these guys are hardly anywhere close to the worst choice. At least with Bioware, DICE, and Visceral we know it isn't going to be some child-friendly schlock and while it probably won't be the best games ever made, it should still be some solid and fun entertainment.
It could be worse, it could have been Ubisoft!
Slow Down Cowboy! It's been 1 hour, 47 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment
Fuck off APK, take your off-topic stalking somewhere else. Nobody cares what you think JC did and you've been told plenty of times that we are sick of your sniveling.
Post something on-topic or go away.
..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
Obviously Sakurafish86 is one of Jonathan Coulton's many sockpuppets.
Obviously Sakurafish86 is one of Jonathan Coulton's many sockpuppets.
It's like talking to an autistic six year-old except without that level of sophistication.
Here's a sure-fire way to avoid getting trolled, APK: stop behaving like an arsehole. Try it on for size. Even if it doesn't do what says on the tin, the rest of us will get some peace for a while.
..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
You care since I burnt you here & you ran http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2579684&cid=38415680
* :)
(Funniest part is, I can literally show around another 40 or so links showing much the same on many topics I utterly scorched your technically weak ass on, lol!)
APK
It breaks my heart that you use Windows.
Reposting yours - to get visibility above 0 - grew me this little "tail". He mod bombs everything I post, too.
I think it's damned_registrars. Unless YOU are damned_registrars...
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I fart on your mother's eyeball.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I use Cygwin if that counts for anything.
Of course.
I used Cygwin the whole time I was at M$... And I used Interix/SFU/SUA or whatever they called it, after there was a whole Deb distro ported.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=274
http://debian-interix.net/
Looks like the Deb stopped updating in 2009. I would have been using it until 2010. It worked, with a XMingX server - which I preferred over CygwinX.
http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Wow...worst news ever.....now star wars games are doomed....DOOMED!
If you want a game to be good use UK game developers......... get ready for amazing marketing campaigns and disappointing user experiences
...I couldn't play Star Wars because of EA's DRM...
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