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Topic: Disney Closes LucasArts?

Well that is an end of an era, and a seemingly mental move by Disney. Okay, so perhaps LucasArts haven't been at the top of their game for a while now, with some ropey Star Wars games lately like Star Wars Kinect and The Force Unleashed II. But this is still the legendary studio that brought us the classic point and click adventure games of the 90's such as Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle, the classic Star Wars games series X-Wing, Dark Forces, and published great games such as Rogue Squadron, Star Wars: Battlefront and Knights of the Old Republic. They haven't been at their former greatness for a while now, but Star Wars: 1313 certainly looked like a step in the right direction. So what now for the future of that game? Tantalizingly close and then snatched from our grasp like Battlefront 3 from the looks of it. So we see another casualty of the merger to join the Clone Wars series (though we still don't know exactly what is going on with that to be fair).

So what are everyone else's thoughts on this? Mourning this loss of an iconic games developer and publisher? Or feeling pretty Meh about the whole affair?

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Re: Disney Closes LucasArts?

I think that this is an unfortunate sign that Disney is now in-charge and can do whatever they want. I still think that they should have kept Lucasarts around even if they haven’t be doing that well. It seemed that things where just about to turn around. There’s two things that I can think of that Disney might be trying to do. Get rid as much of George Lucas’s Influence or trying to make as much money as possible. Also have you heard that Disney said that they’re going to make one Star Wars movie PER YEAR!? That’s going to go bad fast, three more might have been fine but one per year? Come on. It seems like they’re just trying to make money. To me anyway.


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Re: Disney Closes LucasArts?

Meh, Lucasarts was only making games for quick money the past several years.

However, I do fear that Disney will make us eventually dislike Star Wars. We will still remember the good movies, books, games, etc., but the franchise's name will be ruined.

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Re: Disney Closes LucasArts?

Well Disney haven't done too bad with the Marvel franchises, pretty much having a hands off approach and just letting them get on with it. Look how well Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers have been doing. If they take a similar path with Star Wars it might not be half bad.

As for Lucasarts, well you're obviously right, there hasn't really been any good product from there in years. I just hope promising looking games like SW 1313 find a new home at some Disney equivalent of Lucasarts, or that the team gets given licence to complete the game.

Despite this unfortunate development I'm still cautiously optimistic about the future of the franchise with Disney, only time will tell.

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