Star Wars Video Games Now Live Under The Lucasfilm Games Umbrella

BRING BACK STAR WARS GALAXIES! :D

Lol. No thanks. After the last 6 star wars garbage movies and the recycled green Gizmo show, I’ve lost all interest in the Star Wars franchise.

Unless it a SW game in the Force Unleashed or Jedi Knight world complete with play they way the 2 played, along with light saber disemboweling, cause that is what light saber does to flesh.. I dont want it.

To date the only good SW games are Kotor games, Jedi Knight and Force unleshed,

The EA contract runs out in 2023. Disney is setting up Lucasfilm Games to listen to pitches from potential bidders for the license or developers/studios on specific projects. By the time something is good and ready enough to go into formal development it would already be 2023 and a game/s could be ready as early as 2025. This also gives Disney leverage even if Disney decides to stay with EA. It's unlikely EA will spend another dime on any serious Star Wars project from now on without knowing if they have the licensing rights beyond 2023 so EA actually has the leverage where Disney could be seeing blanks or just cheaply made craps for possibly 5 years or more, just when Disney+ made Star Wars a hot property again. Starting Lucasfilm Games now retake the leverage back from EA.

The new logo of that one dude at Disney who tells EA to do wtf they want.

Could mean a change in the long term.

After Battlefront 2 I suspect they will be more selective about who handles what.

All they've got to do now is make a good game.

So they're just creating another vapid name and logo to put in their licensing projects? I hope there's not a yuppie there wasting money on hoes and expensive wine.

Disney Infinity was a successful toys to life franchise. It’s weird that they just shut it down instead of passing the reins to someone else, even EA.

This announcement sounded so promising...until I realized this didn't really mean anything and EA is still the primary dev.

Going the "Xfinity" route.

If people don't see EA or Disney on the box they won't figure it out!

Honest to god, Disney should cut the contract they have with EA short, Or force them to sign a new deal. That allowed another developer to join in on the deal. Because EA can’t even make their own games without it being tainted with microtransactions. And sure as hell can’t keep that mindset from the Star Wars games.

Besides, think of the possibilities:

Star Wars Knights of the old republic III (CD Projekt Red)

Star Wars Bounty hunter: The Mandalorian (Ubisoft)

Star Wars Republic commando 2: Imperial Shock troopers (id Software)

Star Wars: Underground Smugglers (Naughty Dog, or RockStar games)

Star Wars: Republic elite (Activison)

Star Wars: The first jedi (Sucker Punch Productions)

Star Wars Galactix conquest (RTS) (Relic Entertainment)

Star Wars: JRPG (Square Enix, or Atlus games)

Almost looks like their finally ready to distance themselves from the reputation destroying, creativity inhibiting, soul sucking hand of the corpo dark side we call Electronic Arts.

Then again their not really known for making decisions that are even remotely good. In fact, they are known for making mind numbingly bad decisions so maybe not.

I mean, so long as they're still letting EA exclusively publish them, chances are that most of them will be at best mediocre to at worst microtransaction infested POS...with the occasional reprieve here and there for a game like Fallen Order.

Wake me when they start letting a GOOD publishers take a crack at them. Until then, really nothing to see here IMHO.

Just marketing. The same way that EA has "maintained" the Bioware brand rather than just calling them EA games.

"...and in the darkness bind them."