Visceral Stars Game on Indefinite Hold

[Immortal Weapon]

Visceral was screwed from the get-go. Sounds like EA is a hellhole for creative types.

[Derek Metaltron]

Why is a game set between Episode IV and V an 'unexplored period' as they said a while back? It's one of the most utilized periods of EU stuff out there.

[MASTER-OF-SUPRISE]

Man this news sucks. Was it ever explained why visceral was shut down?

[ChrisIII]

Why is a game set between Episode IV and V an 'unexplored period' as they said a while back? It's one of the most utilized periods of EU stuff out there.

Yeah, especially with the new Disney canon-Marvel's got a number of comic series set during that era (The regular ongoing, Darth Vader vol.1, Dr. Aphra and many of the minis) for one. Plus I'm sure quite a few of the novels such as Heir to the Jedi etc.....

If anything, with "Shadows of the Empire" gone the the ESB/ROTJ era is a bit of a blank slate now...

[Immortal Weapon]

The Star Wars game that EA was developing to replaced this one got quietly cancelled
https://gematsu.com/2019/01/ea-vanco...game-cancelled

Visceral died for nothing.

[Xero Kaiser]

Well...whatever EA was trying to frankenstein together out of the original game probably wasn't going to be any good anyway.

Seeing a company with pockets as deep as EA's squander a license with as much potential as Star Wars is almost impressive in a way.

[ChrisIII]

Yeah it's a shame. Although Lucasarts did have a lot of misfires with their Star Wars brand here and there (Their RTS games, Teri-Kasi, arguably the Force Unleashed) they also had plenty of great Star Wars games that are among the best movie-based games ever released (X-wing, TIE fighter, the early Battlefronts, Dark Forces/Jedi Knight, the LEGO series etc).

[BeastieRunner]

EA screws up good franchises all the time. Why are you all surprised?

[Derek Metaltron]

At least we can still expect Fallen Order and whatever they’re now planning instead for Fall 2020, now with 50% more micro-transactions!

[Immortal Weapon]

Rogue One writer Gary Whitta gave his two cents about Visceral cancelled game.
https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/01...tar-wars-game/

“It has been catastrophically mismanaged. If I were Disney, I’d be fucking furious. I saw a bunch of that game, and it looked terrific. It would have been Star Wars Uncharted.”

[SuperiorIronman]

From what I understand, the deal expires sometime in 2023 meaning that if anything Fallen Order is the last game on EA's schedule assuming nothing starts development right this minute and has a small shelf-life as it pertains to DLC.

[Immortal Weapon]

Reportly, EA has refused to let Bioware develop a new KOTOR game
https://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/s...re-kotor-games

[Sacred Knight]

Of course they would. A KOTOR game wouldn't have bullshit like microtransactions to leech more money off people who just want to play a game they've already purchased.

[Immortal Weapon]

Disney thinks EA is doing a good job with the license
https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news...ea-1203129606/

Welp

[Sacred Knight]

2 games in six years is a good job, apparently.