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EA Acquires Exclusive Star Wars Game License

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MrVivian

EA "will develop and publish new Star Wars titles for a core gaming audience, spanning all interactive platforms and the most popular game genres, while Disney will retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile, social, tablet and online game categories."

Be prepared to use Origin for next Star wars games :)

Link: IGN

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666fl

Prepare for day one DLC for every game of their games :/

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Infernotoni

Well, you get it for free if you preorder the Digital Deluxe Edition on Origin.

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CR7CAMIAO

Which will cost 80€.

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DeathBySnuSnu

and then starwars was completely dead to me

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jbrown87

Star Wars died with Jar Jar Binks

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Rabban

+1

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Destructodude21

There goes all my dreams of a good Republic Commando sequel.

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Vercinger

+1

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jbrown87

Republic Commando 2 with Dice? Hyper graphics (and bugs) with fully destructible buildings (and bugs)?

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Tarsier

And Origin.

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jbrown87

I actually don't mind Origin that much. I haven't had any problems with it yet.

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Devilklone

frostbite 3 + star wars => epic swbf3? :D

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MrVivian

Imagine if we can cut anything with our light sabers thanks to the frostbite engine, it will be really fun :D

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Devilklone

yea, but this feature will be only aviable for Premium Users. Premium will cost 50$

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smutsig

battlefront 3 would be sweet, or a new jedi knight game but meh ea will put a million dlc and in game shops and what not in them

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liquidkameleon

Is Disney actively trying to shit on the Star Wars brand? What the hell are they doing? By what criteria is EA a good choice to make Star Wars games? Even if you ignore the rage of the gamers and EA's double consecutive "worst company of the year" title, their financial catastrophe called The Old Republic clearly proves that they aren't the guys for the job.

I think that this whole Disney era will desecrate the SW franchise even more than the Lucas' prequels.

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strifekun

This. Disney may be doing pretty well with Marvel, but whoever they put in charge of the Star Wars franchise is doing a shit job so far.

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icedragon15

yup sucks star wars franchisee is dead lucas should never have soldd to disney he shoulld have kept in the family or sell to company that cares

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Daryl

Can you list "a company that cares" that could afford the asking price? Also, given what Lucas did to the franchise in the past 15 years (Jar Jar, Han Shooting Second, licensing to some crap developers) I am not sure that Disney has earned the bulk of the scorn they seem to get.

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ShadowIronblood

plus the fat check lucas got for selling it is not costing him any nights of sleep. EA might be evil, and yes i do not care for many of their practices but atlease we'll GET a new star wars game....just not sure if itll be the star wars game we want.

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strifekun

We were going to get a new Star Wars game with 1313, but I think that got scrapped because of the Disney acquisition.

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strifekun

You are definitely correct. Lucas did some shit things to his series, but Disney scrapping LucasArts was pretty shitty; especially since 1313 looked decent or in the worst case scenario, interesting.

Of course, Disney has been pulling some shit moves lately. Like closing their 2D studio; if that wasn't a kick in the teeth, I don't know what is. I /like/ hand drawn films (even if they're absurdly expensive). Most Disney films make back what they spent on production +, so it's not like it was ever a problem.

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Risto

Don't forget the new star wars movie every year staring in 2015. Either will be done great or Disney is just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

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DeltaBladeX
(Senior Moderator)

The criteria they used to pick EA was the biggest briefcase full of money. That is how game companies get licenses for popular series like Star Wars, comic book series, etc. Much the same way Disney got Star Wars.

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c00lizz

I thought people were smart enough to stop caring once the franchise was dumped the first time?

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oxguy3

Mixed feelings... EA may finally make a new Battlefront game, which is really good, but they might also ruin the Battlefront franchise in doing so, which is really bad. :/

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Xargothraxas

Battlefront 3: Online Pass: $9.99
Battlefront 3: Booster Pack: $9.99
Battlefront 3: Jedi Unlock: $19.99 (Lightsaber not included.)
Battlefront 3: Hoth Map Pack: $19.99
Battlefront 3: Lightsaber Damage and Color Pack (Green): $4.99 (Requires Jedi Unlock)
Battlefront 3: Lightsaber Damage and Color Pack (Blue): $4.99 (Requires Jedi Unlock)
Battlefront 3: Lightsaber Damage and Color Pack (Red): $4.99 (Requires Jedi Unlock)
Battlefront 3: Lightsaber Damage and Color Pack (Yellow): $4.99 (Requires Jedi Unlock)
Battlefront 3: Lightsaber Damage and Color Pack (Purple): $4.99 (Requires Jedi Unlock)
Battlefront 3: Blaster Color Pack (Green): $4.99
Battlefront 3: Blaster Color Pack (Blue): $4.99
Battlefront 3: Blaster Color Pack (Red): $4.99
Battlefront 3: Blaster Color Pack (Yellow): $4.99
Battlefront 3: Blaster Color Pack (Purple): $4.99

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TheDeadSkin

they have battlefield already, since battlefront is partly a copy of battlefield I guess SWBF is definetely NOT the first game for them to think about

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Nanabanana

Why not ? Lazy reskin + built-in fanbase = easy money

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Vercinger

Great! Just great! The future of SW games is Origin-exclusive console ports.

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DeltaBladeX
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Disney might be able to force them to go for Steam for the higher user base, but really, it isn't that bad.

Then again, I'm a console gamer. I see Origin moaners as rather silly since at least they aren't buying a second system for the Origin exclusives.

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dooder

Something terrible happened it the universe.

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TheFamousDrScanlon

fuck

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TheChack

Dayum.

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bondKI

Nooooooooooo!I have a bad feeling about this.

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icedragon15

agree it sucks micro wars

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BorschtLover

Bye Star Wars, we'll remember you forever on PCs -(((

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AgeOfArmageddon

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.

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buttocks

+1

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Vercinger

+1

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FrozenEagle

:(

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MacroPower

No. No. No.

hits head softly on desk

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Sandy

This makes me sad. :(

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MrJasD

I feel depressed now :(

Time to buy every star wars game on steam before EA attempts to take them off and put them on Origin for 3x the price.

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godprobe

I want to hate this, but...
I haven't yet bought anything on Origin, and I still have too many games to play (AAA titles even, at that).
And I haven't bought a Star Wars game in, literally, a decade, sooo...
...thankfully, although these stupid decisions will shit on my childhood, at least they won't cost me any money.

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AtomicWoodchuck

You have controlled your fear. Now, release your DLC...

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drb00t

lol

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HillaryClinton

The dark side won.

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honglong17

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror"...... wait.....it too late, I already dead long time ago when EA & Bioware say KOTOR will be a online game

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ThirdSketch

This is a dark day.

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himohillo

rip in pieces batlefont :(((

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Closed 11 years ago by MrVivian.