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[โ€“] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Take

Star Wars

Away

From

EA!

[โ€“] nac82@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Didn't they already lose their exclusive deal? Ubisoft is making a game too now ๐Ÿคฎ

[โ€“] SurvivalMariner@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Why? It's simply owned to spew out content and make money. EA is perfect for it.

[โ€“] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Why should they? They strive to give a 'sense of pride and accomplishment' to players who surrender money to EA to skip months of grinding.

[โ€“] mrfriki@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Probably it didnโ€™t have enough micro transactions.

[โ€“] burgersc12@mander.xyz 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wow the one that has the internet hyped? How fucking blind can EA be??

[โ€“] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

EA has a history of making cool games and then meddling with it to becoming hot garbage. I'm okay with this.

[โ€“] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

The moment I saw EA was in charge, it dropped off my radar.

Fuck EA.

[โ€“] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I mean, do you think it would have lived up to the hype? Maybe EA looked at the work in progress and realized it was going to be a shitty game. Maybe it was bland or boring or poorly optimized. There have been a string of high-profile disasters, and maybe EA didn't want to be the latest in a trend?

Would you prefer they finish developing and then release a shitty game?

[โ€“] alessandro@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Generic EA hate aside, they want to drive away from licensed IP. Their latest burn was FIFA, which was a long legacy of earning for EA with little to nothing effort... then they broke with FIFA (the organization) and now a big chunk of their historical earning is scrapped away.

The logic here is: "if the game is good, I bring more value to Disney, but then that fricking mouse (the non CC0) can kick me out and switch my press-work to the franchaise (on SW universe) to a company that directly compete with me (ie: Ubisoft)".

Aside from this: fuck EA.

[โ€“] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

Good video on some other drawbacks to licensed game dev https://youtu.be/SdJCrgSXAW0?si=qtdrhzSFXmQPaUjC

[โ€“] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Of course. Fuck EA.

[โ€“] iamericandre@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought ea lost exclusive rights to Star Wars games?

[โ€“] ajax6893@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

They did, but they can still make them.

[โ€“] JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Good. Now give me a Titanfall 3.

[โ€“] gmtom@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Just make Titanfall 3 for fucks sake.

[โ€“] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Damn, that actually sounds cool as hell. Loved Star Wars Bounty Hunter

[โ€“] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is not the way but as its EA its probably for the best. The cunts