Ubisoft To Make Star Wars Game, Marking End To EA Exclusivity (bloomberg.com) 31
Ubisoft said it will develop a new Star Wars game, indicating a longtime exclusivity agreement for Electronic Arts on the Walt Disney franchise will come to an end. From a report: The new Star Wars title is set to be the first not published by EA since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012. The news sent shares of the two game companies diverging Wednesday. Ubisoft climbed more than 7%, and EA fell as much 3.2%. The agreement with EA is scheduled to expire in 2023. In an emailed statement, EA said: "We're proud of our long-standing collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, which will continue for years to come." Lucasfilm said in a blog post Wednesday morning that it had "a number of projects underway" with EA. Ubisoft said only that its game will be set in an open-world environment and will developed by the company's Massive Entertainment team in Sweden, best known for a series of shooting games called Tom Clancy's The Division. The group is also working on a game based on James Cameron's "Avatar" movies.
Star Wars Return of The Lootbox (Score:1)
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The last star wars game, Star Wars: Fallen Order, did not have it and it was a great game. We'll see what they do over the next 2 years.
I'm torn though. Ubisoft is notorious for embedding horrible copyright systems that require a constant internet connection to play. That's on top of their UPlay/Ubisoft Connect requirement. Their games also crash constantly.
I will definitely not be a day-1 purchaser on Ubisoft titles.
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The last star wars game, Star Wars: Fallen Order
That's the last last game, Star Wars: Squadrons is the last one.
Re:Star Wars Return of The Lootbox (Score:4, Informative)
EA removed the lootboxes in Star Wars Battlefront 2 because of the backlash. It's actually a decent game now. Yea, they're evil, but at least in this case, they did the right thing.
I hadn't bought an EA game for a decade but I got this one in a Winter Steam sale recently for $12. If you want to find absolutely despicable companies though, it's about to free on EPIC in a week or something.
I will never make an account or give them any money though after getting developers to betray their audiences by selling exclusivity to their trash platform.
You overslept (Score:1)
Wake me up when they stop predatory practices.
Even EA ended that some time ago. Years ago they took out the look boxes from Star Wars Battlefront II, and added a ton of new content/games modes.
As the other poster mentioned, the more recent Jedi Fallen Order was single player without microtranssactions from the outset.
The most recent Star Wars Squadrons also has NO micro-transactions, all kinds of flair you can get are earned in-game without a way to pay real money for them.
People complaining about predator
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Wake me up when they stop predatory practices.
They picked the wrong alternative for that :D
Damn Disney is dense. Just picking whatever outfit offers the most up front instead of looking at what they can deliver.
The expansion of Star Wars continues... (Score:3)
Disney has finally woken up to the value of the Star Wars franchise, which exists in a realm far beyond the concerns of a handful of griping fans.
As such, it makes no sense to tie Star Wars down to one studio. I'd personally love to see all kinds of different Star Wars games, in all kinds of genres, with all kinds of different story takes.
Combine existing books with the incredibly popular High Republic book.comic release, and there are stories aplenty to hangouts on, even if game makers do not want to come up with their own fresh narrative.
It's going to take a little while to spool up, but from 2022 onward there will be a new Golden Age for Star Wars content unlike anything seen before. It's going to be bigger than Marvel.
These are new ideas (Score:4, Interesting)
Let's just rehash the same old space soap opera over and over!
The High Republic is a new idea, set in a new area.
That's the great thing about Star Wars, is that it is a whole galaxy - room enough for any idea you want to hang a hat on.
It gives you a great framework that you can tell almost any kind of story in, with elements that people have familiarity enough with you don't need to go into great detail explaining them so you can spend more time on story and less on mechanics.
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Star Wars turning into Marvel... so, an endless parade of color-by-numbers films whose main distinguishing factor is which one-dimensional character(s) get inserted. And, if you're lucky, every 5 to 10 years there could be one worth watching.
I'd hardly call it a golden age, unless you intend on exchanging Disney stock for precious metals.
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Star Wars turning into Marvel... so, an endless parade of color-by-numbers films whose main distinguishing factor is which one-dimensional character(s) get inserted.
I agree that is where Marvel went, but it does not have to be that way.
Marvel is kind of limited by the whole superhero aspect. Star Wars has more story possibility, with lots and lots of characters that are not really superhero equivalents (like Jedi).
That is why I say, Star Wars will surpass Marvel...
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I agree that is where Marvel went, but it does not have to be that way.
Marvel is kind of limited by the whole superhero aspect. Star Wars has more story possibility, with lots and lots of characters that are not really superhero equivalents (like Jedi).
That is why I say, Star Wars will surpass Marvel...
Sorry, this is Disney we're talking about. Also, I don't see much of a difference between superheroes and plasma swords, telekenesis, mind reading, future-seeing, etc.
I already mentioned Jedi (Score:1)
I don't see much of a difference between superheroes and plasma swords, telekenesis, mind reading, future-seeing, etc.
None of which Lando Calrissian, Clone troopers, Cassian Andor, or Rogue Squadron have - but they all have upcoming TV/Movie series. Produced by Disney so I guess they are capable of thinking beyond that.
Not to mention the Mandaloriain, though technically you could possibly lump him in with superheros because he has a jetpack (well, had a jetpack).
As I said, Jedi are only one small part of
Wasn't it already released? (Score:2)
They were running out of time periods/locations (Score:2)
Good News/Bad News (Score:2)
"EA doesn't have exclusive rights to Star Wars games any more!"
"Yay!"
"Now Ubisoft has rights to them too!"
"Oh."
Meh (Score:2)
Great (Score:2)
Now I can play an open world star wars game with "time savers".
Meh (Score:2)
I'm not into Disney franchises. I'm sure if I were 30 years younger it would seem pretty cool.
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The reason the Sith and other darksiders lightsabers are red, is the the dark side of the force is over writing the color of the crystal.
Ship-Boarding FPS (Score:2)
I want an FPS where I fly around in a spaceship finding other big ships, jump in my MMU and fly over to them, work out how to get in, then explore the corridors and rooms of the ship.
Wouldn't that be a good game ?
Star Wars 1313? (Score:2)
Here's hoping we finally get to see Star Wars: 1313 [fandom.com]
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Here's hoping we finally get to see Star Wars: 1313 [fandom.com]
It's another Ubisoft game [pointandclickbait.com]. We're getting Assassin's creed: Star Wars.
Fallen Order was crap (Score:2)
At best I would review it as "bug free"
Another article with zero research (Score:2)
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