Colin Moriarty - 'EA Has Completely Botched Its Handling Of Star Wars IP'

It's hard not to agree with that statement. EA and the Star Wars IP has been anything but a success for both EA and Star Wars owner, Disney.

[Spurg]

I can't comprehend what Disney saw in EA to make a deal with them. EA have all but tarnish the name of Star wars amongst gamers with needless microtransactions, not expanded the Star Wars story or lore and not created a single game that has made the Star wars name proud.

[Araragifeels]

EA never wanted the Star Wars license to begin with but Dice wanted to make a Star Wars game. At the time, Dice was a safe bet and Disney didn't see the issue until Star Wars Battlefront 2 which was too late.

[Redlife2g]

Source please. I highly doubt that was the only reason why they wanted the license

[UltraNova]

I seriously doubt EA of all publishers did not want the rights to film industry's biggest IP....

[Atom666]

Between Bioware's continued work on Old Republic and EA's teams like DICE, it probably made a lot of sense on paper. Fast forward a few years, and look where we are. I agree with your points.

Like Colin has mentioned though, does Disney care enough at this point to do anything about it? Can they get out of the deal for less $ than it will cost them to stick it out?

[DivoJones]

EA probably laid out their elaborate plans to extract every dollar from the license. Battlefront games that time out perfectly to movie releases, rife with loot boxes to boost the bottom line. Single-player game being developed under the supervision of Amy Hennig, Star Wars 1313, and the game they tried to spin those assets into. If they didn't add an 'escape clause' to the contract they made with EA, they deserve to miss out on the massive amounts of money they could have made.

[uth11]

Disney wanted nothing to do with game development.
one of their first moves was to axe Lucasarts. They just wanted to collect royalties on the license while other companies did the work

[Dabigsiebowski]

@spurg Look at how Disney is handling Star Wars in general. This is not a surprise until they actually learn what it is they have on their hands. They don't see Star wars as the art that many people used to see it as. It's all about making cute animals and fart jokes to appease to the new age masses. It's about printing money and story and everything else are second hand.

[Profchaos]

They transformed star wars from an event years in the making to a series of movies that release sometimes 6 months apart making it loose it's magic by oversaturation and poor content

[Sophisticated_Chap]

You don't need to comprehend anything to understand that Disney is just as bad. They are milking all if their franchises, just like Activision does with Call of Duty. George Lucas selling Star Wars to Disney was the worst thing he ever did.

[RememberThe357]

Excuse me, don't you dare undermine the massive destruction he laid down with episodes 1-3. That took work!

[MajorLazer]

Disney are scum too. Just glad they haven't fucked up the MCU (yet)

[kevnb]

They saw money, nothing else really matters in their decision.

[Sashamaz]

Disney is even worse than EA, they have destroyed star wars

[Michiel1989]

@spurg I cant comprehend it from a personal level either but when I look at it from a business perspective it makes a bit more sense. Disney had no studio making star wars games for them anymore, they were marketshopping for one and voila EA showed up. They know EA from games like madden, battlefield and Fifa which are probably one of the biggest game names for non-gamers. They look at the stock of EA and saw it was going up at a steady pace. Purely from a business standpoint that seems like a good deal for them. Also at the time they made the deal EA wasnt hated as much as currently.

and also lets not act like Disney is the way it was 25 years back. They have also become very greedy over the years and are not that likeable of a company anymore. Yeah they still some good movies, but they are also milking some other IP's at the same time.

[-Foxtrot]

Even worse when they've said Battlefront II's single player story is CANON to the Star Wars Universe despite it being awfully written.

Yet they got rid of so many popular stories when Disney took over in the expanded Universe.

[Fluxour]

In other news, the sky is blue...

[badz149]

it's raining today and it's totally not blue outside! you're FAKE NEWS!

[Smokehouse]

Where the hell has he been? Seemed like one of the few gaming media types that had any sense.

[eferreira]

He has like 3 different podcasts. They’re great too.

[Smokehouse]

What are the names?

[NecrumOddBoy]

Colin's Last Stand is his new company and YouTube channel. He also has podcasts on Castbox:
Sacred Symbols - Playstation Podcast
Fireside Chats - Eclectic Interviews
Knockback - Retro Podcast

Colin is awesome. When those scumbags that Kinda Funny turned on him, I unsubscribed and followed Colin to his new channel. His Fireside chats are like Joe Rogan without all the fight/MMA interviews. He has a plethora of interesting guest. Sacred Symbols is an awesome weekly Playstation podcast that we lost when PS I Love You stopped. Also Knockback is a retro podcast he does with his brother Dagan (lead animator at Sesame) all ranging from games to childhood memories, to music, sports, cartoons, film and more. Just absolutely a walk back in time and if you know Colin everything is about learning from a historical perspective.

I highly recommend looking into CLS.

[Smokehouse]

I have never heard of castbox I will check it out later. Lol@the many different opinions about this dude. I wasn’t trying to be divisive, I just liked his input on some things.

[AspiringProGenji]

He has a youtube channel. Colin’s Last Stand, a podcast, and Side quest (gaming content). Subscribe. I enjoy his show

[TorpeAlex]

He left the Kinda Funny podcast that he and Greg Miller started when they left IGN, and said some questionable (mainly just unnecessarily inciting) stuff* that mostly leaves him in the corner of the internet that the "screw SJWs and political correctness" crowd is cool with hanging around in. N4G ironically has a decent amount of this crowd as well. Watch as the dislikes grow on my comment.

*He made a "Finally, some peace and quiet" joke regarding the Day Without Women movement, said that he'd love seeing Trump supporters have a bigger presence in games journalism, and named his new podcast "Colin's Last Stand" which seems like a questionable move if you've been accused of racism.

[RobinGaming]

People can see right through comments like yours. A joke is a joke, he didn't want "Trump supporters" to have a bigger presence but conservatives (which is fair as 99% of the dev community media is undeniably liberal, which sure doesn't reflect the general population or gaming community), and god knows how easy it is to be called a racist nowadays so those claims don't mean anything without substance.

[TorpeAlex]

@RobinGaming, no he literally said Trump supporters.

https://twitter.com/notaxat...

His delusion is that the lack of diversity in media is intentional and not a direct effect of reader preference. If the majority of one's target demographic was unhappy with the content you were publishing then they would go elsewhere and your platform would evaporate. The fact is that there are more left-leaning youth than any other age bracket and if you think otherwise you're only fooling yourself. http://www.people-press.org...

[XVision84]

Colin rightfully wants gaming media to have more diversity of thought. If you listen to any of his content you know that he's always open to discussion and hears people out. I've been listening to him for years and all the accusations he's gotten (like being racist) are laughable because he so often advocates the opposite.

Also, @RobinGaming love your channel dude. You make great videos :)

[AirJohnston]

His sentiment was that he wants diversity in games journalism. I thought that’s what people want?

[Atom666]

Didn't he actually say Trump supporters as well as Socialists? Meaning just more diverse backgrounds generally? His point being that there is a lack of political diversity in the main stream games media, which I fully agree with. Not everyone needs to cater to those left leaning youths you mention.

Your attempt to downplay both the point he was trying to make and his actual comments is a good example of the problems he has been vocal about.

It's ok that people disagree, and differing perspectives are important for content creators and viewers/listeners alike. He poked the hive and the angry little bees all came out to try to sting him for it. They apparently failed when they saw that enough people weren't there to support the "I'm always right and your differing opinion offends me" crowd. Good on him.

[Dirtnapstor]

If you do not solely adhere to the leftists mantra, you will be demonized and exaggeratedly labeled everything derogatory under the sun.

@Robingaming: love your channel, keep up the good work!

[gamer7804]

@TorpeAlex

Okay First:
He made a joke that honestly was made on tv sitcoms for ages and not one of his friends had his back at Kinda Funny. Furthermore even months after Colin left he knew he had to extend one last hand to his friend Greg to see if they could meet and talk things over, knowing that life is short (especially being there for greg through his cancer). Greg declined and Colin has made his peace knowing that he at least tried to offer a hand to salvage a friendship.

And Second:
When was Colin racist?!?!

just wow man... people yah sometimes disagree with comments for the fun of it on here, but trust me when I tell you this, these disagrees are for good reason.

[ginganinja]

I find it strange that the 'screw SJWs and political correctness' crowd seem to like him in spite of the fact that it's his video re the Mass effect 3 ending which calls gamers 'entitled'.
Usually, they hate gamers being connected to that word, and yet he was one of the first to use it as shown in this godawful sanctimonious video;

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[JesusBuiltmyHotrod]

Any sense? The dude is a moron, all the fear mongering over the pro, his nonsense about MS catching up to sony cause reasons. Dude is a cancer.

[Smokehouse]

I haven’t heard either of those examples. Not saying they didn’t happen but “Fear mongering over the pro”? How do you even begin to do that lol? Sounds like fanboys taking shit personal to me, just saying.

[JesusBuiltmyHotrod]

@smokehouse...you are clueless....Google is your friend. On Kinda funny he was saying a lot of mis-information, and he double down on it when proven wrong.

[Smokehouse]

Yeah let me google “fear mongering the pro” real quick lmao. I’m clueless because I’m not aware of such trivial fanboy bullshit? Okay pal lmao.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Yeah I've been a Colin fan for about 10 years, back to the old ign days. Sad what happened between him and Greg.

[gangsta_red]

Do we really trust a man with a last name like that?

[bluefox755]

Something against the Irish? lol

[ginganinja]

I think he's more likely referencing Sherlocks nemesis.

[Psychonaut85]

Oh my god you two dumbasses who downvoted this, it's a Sherlock Holmes joke. Peasants

[MaxiPower90]

just in... water is wet.

[bluefox755]

Well no shite there Colin. Thanks for the hot take.

[FalconofLucis98]

water is wet

[JesusBuiltmyHotrod]

Ya don't say, captain Obvious. EA is the worst publisher in the industry, just ahead of MS.

[TheColbertinator]

Disny just saw EA's checkbook and that was that.

[Profchaos]

Let's not forget when EA first signed the deal people were really excited it was a different time and a different dice when the news broke we finally thought now we might actually get a revival of battlefront after Lucas arts shelved bf3.

Unfortunately the games we have gotten both battlefront titles were underwhelming and cash grabs and unless it's multiplayer EA don't seem to care

[PlayStationBrah]

Why was this approved? Who cares what he thinks.

[gamer7804]

Gary Whitta a writer on Rogue one also agrees that EA has mishandled this license. And people do care what Colin thinks, I might not agree on him with everything but he has been around a long time and at least puts a good amount of thought into what he says regarding the games industry.

[Razzer]

Where did he say this? Was it in his podcast? There is no source for these quotes at all.

[Hardiman]

The biggest understatement of the year!

[AK91]

Well I can't really disagree with him here.

[william_cade]

Don't let Bethesda near Star Wars.

[NarutoFox]

"Moriarty believes Disney needs to seriously look at cancelling the 10-year partnership with EA.

There are endless publishers out there that would love to have an opportunity to work on a Star Wars game and he thinks the likes of Bethesda or even Activision would be good choices for a new home for the IP."

They should partner with Sony for the single player star war games. Look what happen to Spider-Man

[dmonee]

Ugh! To think, what could have been if the Star Wars license was shared amongst creative developers or publishers other then EA. Look what they’ve done with football, soccer and other creative properties that have been licensed to them.

[Parasyte]

He lost me when he said Activision would be a good choice to take over the Star Wars license.

[Sirk7x]

So has Disney, Rogue One aside.

[Artemidorus]

No they got greedy by taking advantage of a well known franchise.

So bitter they cancelled the next game. Hand over the licence and do the right thing.

[Suave_Langosta]

Anyone with a brain can see that.

[mogwaii]

You don't say.

[LandoCalrissiano]

Disney has botched the handling of star wars too though! They've cancelled like 2 shows and the Boba fett movie, never greenlit obi wan which would be great, and moved away from canon making leia a jedi. Meanwhile I go back and watch the old republic cutscenes knowing ea (bioware really) can make star wars better than Disney ever could.