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Disney and Lucasfilm may be looking to replace EA

If rumors are to be believed Disney and Lucasfilm  have reached out to Activision and Ubisoft about producing future Star Wars games. Personally, I am not surprised by this change as it is safe to say that EA's Battlefront 2 was a PR nightmare for both companies, and they would rather not repeat the experience.

International Business Times article: http://www.ibtimes.com/disney-lucasfilm-rumored-replace-ea-future-star-wars-games-2653343

 

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If true, I hope either Bethesda or Rockstar will pick it up.

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Remove the loot boxes and BFII is a great game. Dice has great talent, EA just screws it up.

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they wont do an exclusive deal like they had with EA. bethesda or rockstar are not big enough to have solo rights. :P i know .....

this replacement might have something to do with MS  wanting EA because if MS buys them the exclusivity deal will probably be void which means they dont have to worry if they dump them.

 

all the idiots rejoicing that lootbox legislation is making progress by the time it gets banned if they get banned or harshly regulated the big companies will have moved onto the next iteration of microtransaction BS. and from what ive heard its gong to be REAL BS

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I wonder how that would work, considering EA purchased those Star Wars rights for 10 years for a substantial amount of money. 

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1 minute ago, dizmo said:

I wonder how that would work, considering EA purchased those Star Wars rights for 10 years for a substantial amount of money. 

Depends on whether the license allows them to be exclusive developer for 10 years.

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18 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I wonder how that would work, considering EA purchased those Star Wars rights for 10 years for a substantial amount of money. 

there is always exit clauses like if EA damages the starwars brand permenently etc disney can pull the plug on that exclusivity( disney would not sign away the game rights to star wars for 10 years with no way out that costs them nothing they are simply too big to not be getting the good end of the deal). there will be multiple ways for disney to wiggle their way out of that deal. a change of ownership is probably one of those clauses. and yes EA paid alot of money but i doubt it was all up front its probably a set rate per game or year 

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3 minutes ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Depends on whether the license allows them to be exclusive developer for 10 years.

It is. 

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2 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I wonder how that would work, considering EA purchased those Star Wars rights for 10 years for a substantial amount of money. 

My understanding of most contracts like this is that there is a way for the person who gave the license to fork over tons of money and essentially buy their way out of the contract. If this is how their contract is set up then it would probably take a few million dollars, but Disney can afford that.

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Poor Disney, if you only knew that by looking at those other competitors you're actually looking into "How can we possibly keep things as bad or make them worst"

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They should've just bought EA and fired all the morons in charge.

 

EA's been a bag of dicks for a good long time, like releasing the same Tiger Woods PBA game for multiple years in a row with only the year in the title changed and none of the glaring bugs fixed.

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16 minutes ago, CommandMan7 said:

If true, I hope either Bethesda or Rockstar will pick it up.

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1 minute ago, GilmourD said:

They should've just bought EA and fired all the morons in charge.

 

EA's been a bag of dicks for a good long time, like releasing the same Tiger Woods PBA game for multiple years in a row with only the year in the title changed and none of the glaring bugs fixed.

EA is probably too big for them but that's really not a terrible idea: They should look into buying a smaller publisher out and move things to in-house instead. It's probably orders of magnitude more money than what they're spending right now but well they're buying entertainment businesses everywhere else and as always, nobody takes videogames seriously even though it's potentially the most profitable entertainment and media industry of them all, it's just being terribly mishandled by the big names right now.

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19 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Remove the loot boxes and BFII is a great game. Dice has great talent, EA just screws it up.

Also, they seem to want to please the fans, but always have to give guarded answers. If EA just let DICE do whatever they want, we'd have an amazing game. 

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U play on BF 3 will be the final blow to my love of modern star wars games I'll just play the old lego one lol

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3 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

EA is probably too big for them but that's really not a terrible idea: They should look into buying a smaller publisher out and move things to in-house instead. It's probably orders of magnitude more money than what they're spending right now but well they're buying entertainment businesses everywhere else and as always, nobody takes videogames seriously even though it's potentially the most profitable entertainment and media industry of them all, it's just being terribly mishandled by the big names right now.

The problem isn't money for Disney, that's why it costs a kidney to go to their amusement parks :D

The problem is if they buy EA they might be stopped in the process by regulations or such. The best thing to do is buy a large chunk of EA maybe not a controlling interest, but a interest that EA can't ignore, which should be about 25-33%

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6 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Great game? 3 months to fix a basic feature like reward claiming? Still full of bugs, most of them related to the force, and not a single word of Dice about it. Dice has great talent to screw up, just like EA.

the game was made by 3 studios, not just DICE. That and having to release in time for the movie, probably made things worst.

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What I don't get is why the hell Disney wanted to sign away exclusive rights for all star wars games to one publisher for 10 years.

 

Why couldn't they do it the way LucasArts managed it in the old days. I.e pick the best dev for the job on a game by game basis. For example back in the day when they wanted a first person shooter they went to Raven Software and the result was Jedi Knight. When they wanted an RPG they went to Bioware and the result was Knights of The Old Republic.

 

Why did they have to make EA the owner of all star Wars games?

 

Also Star Wars is an incredibly rich fictional universe which gives almost unlimited scope for storytellers who have big imaginations. You can use it as a setting for incredible lore and world building, science fiction, fantasy. EA just doesn't care enough about that aspect of building mythological stories which is the spirit of star wars.

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6 minutes ago, Egg-Roll said:

The problem isn't money for Disney, that's why it costs a kidney to go to their amusement parks :D

The problem is if they buy EA they might be stopped in the process by regulations or such. The best thing to do is buy a large chunk of EA maybe not a controlling interest, but a interest that EA can't ignore, which should be about 25-33%

That's part of the "Too big for them" part yes. Not that it's expensive but that those require a lot of political greasing of the wheels to get those acquisitions through. Whereas a smaller publisher, say ZeniMax media (Bethesda's parents) might not raise that many suspicions and get their foot in the door for the videogames industry.

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5 minutes ago, Humbug said:

What I don't get is why the hell Disney wanted to sign away exclusive rights for all star wars games to one publisher for 10 years.

Few reasons could be EA's game portfolio and studios, cost of production. so if EA can make a game for 100 million but everyone else it would cost 120 million which would you go to? Locking into a agreement might of sealed a good price too.

 

5 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

That's part of the "Too big for them" part yes. Not that it's expensive but that those require a lot of political greasing of the wheels to get those acquisitions through. Whereas a smaller publisher, say ZeniMax media (Bethesda's parents) might not raise that many suspicions and get their foot in the door for the videogames industry.

I'm used to people only ever referring to costs :P A good case could be buying them and letting them run as a individual company (I remember reading something similar with a Chinese business person saying something like that to the US side), the reason for the buyout could be argued with the contract (didn't read the article) in place it made more financial sense to buy them than paying out and cancelling the contract. Imagine the impact on EA if the sale didn't go threw with that explanation xD

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47 minutes ago, gabrielcarvfer said:

Great game? 3 months to fix a basic feature like reward claiming? Still full of bugs, most of them related to the force, and not a single word of Dice about it. Dice has great talent to screw up, just like EA.

I was referring more to gameplay, graphics, optimization, etc. I haven't personally experienced those bugs myself so I'm not really aware of them, though I haven't played it that much.

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1 hour ago, Day_Star said:

If rumors are to be believed Disney and Lucasfilm  have reached out to Activision and Ubisoft about producing future Star Wars games. Personally, I am not surprised by this change as it is safe to say that EA's Battlefront 2 was a PR nightmare for both companies, and they would rather not repeat the experience.

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Well, Disney taking over EA would still be better than EA still running EA :P

Seriously, I've been sick of that company since long before Battlefront 2. Everything they do is a cut down, unoriginal, unimaginative piece of crap these days. 

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Do anything new and exciting like making them VR?

Nope.

That would be too much fun to play for EA :P 

My dad got the PSVR and he's super disappointed that he still has to play hockey on a screen. I mean, first person wouldn't work except for the goalie so really all they'd have to do to make it VR compatible is make it show up in the headset in stereoscopic 3D. Nothing else really would have to change. It'd still be 3rd person since first person would make you want to kool aid-man your wall and TV with hockey.

All he wants is to play like he always does, but in virtual reality. EA will never do it though.

I want all of their crap to be replaced by a company that actually cares.

I'd love to see them lose the NHL game franchise to someone else.

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Whoever ends up with it, I hope we get a reboot for KOTOR. Bethesda would be great for that

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