For better or worse, Electronic Arts will be publishing all core Star Wars games for the foreseeable future.
Whether you love or hate the publisher, Star Wars gaming is officially in their hands and it's time to stop whining that EA has control over this beloved franchise and start whining about the games that they should be working on with their new license.
The Star Wars universe has a long history in the gaming industry, with a handful of gems and a few games that we'd all like to forget ever happened.
If you're reading this, EA, these are some games that the gaming community would really like you to start working on.
Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.
EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.
EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'
I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.
And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.
No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.
EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.
SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5
Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"
Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.
EA CEO Andrew Wilson writes: "In this time of change, we expect these decisions to impact approximately 5 percent of our workforce. I understand this will create uncertainty and be challenging for many who have worked with such dedication and passion and have made important contributions to our company. While not every team will be impacted, this is the hardest part of these changes, and we have deeply considered every option to try and limit impacts to our teams. Our primary goal is to provide team members with opportunities to find new roles and paths to transition onto other projects. Where that’s not possible, we will support and work with each colleague with the utmost attention, care, and respect. Communicating these impacts has already begun and will be largely completed by early next quarter."
All the big ones doing the same stuff. Terrible. I just hope that all these people are able to get a new job as soon as possible, God know that it is horrible to be left jobless when you have your kids or your parents depending on your financial help
The point I feel is problematic about all of this is that focusing on Owned Ip means more sequels, remasters and more of what was selling last year.
What about the Star Wars 1313 game that was being worked on? Was that not part of the EA deal?
Also, if The Force Unleashed III gets made, it better be leaps and bounds better than the first two, which were mediocre at best.
Also, KOTOR 3, I said it. :P
Well I have a feeling they are going to be working on the following.
Dice-A Star Wars themed shooter, wont be Battlefront 3, but a FPS on Frostbite 3.
Visceral-Star Wars 1313, but they'll scrap everything already made and change it to Frostbite 3.
Bioware-Obvious because this is the team that made KOTOR originally, probably going to finally get a KOTOR 3.
Knights 3
Jedi knight 3/4
Battlefront 3
1313 was basically Uncharted in the star wars universe/
It would be pretty awesome to see a remake of Kyle Katarn's story using The Force Unleashed engine.
The thing I want most however out of Star Wars is to simply make both KOTOR games available for purchase on Xbox Live.
Battlefront 3: DICE
KOTOR: Bioware
Rogue Squadron: Namco/Ace Combat
A lot of money that EA will win with this franchise !