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If you didn't know, EA stuck a 10 year deal with Disney for exclusive video game rights to the Star Wars franchise back in 2013. And they also recently announced that they'll likely make sequels to Battlfront, as well as release more games as well for console, mobile and PC.
The downsides to this is that we'll never get a Star Wars game for the next decade without micro-transactions, we'll also be a lot more unlikely to get Star Wars games that try new things and most will just rehash already familiar games with a Star Wars skin placed over them.
The upsides to this are that we'll likely have a slightly higher standard of quality for Star Wars games, because quite frankly many many Star Wars games in the past have been garbage. (I had a couple of them as a kid and I remember being unable to make it past the first or second stage in them) And while Battlefront isn't a great game that will define the genre, it's an accurate and faithful representation of what the Star Wars battles like Hoth would actually kind of be like. And it may mean we get a Knights of the Old Republic 3 from Bioware.
But how do you feel about this? I'm still pissed about EA's exclusive NFL license because my favorite Football series was NFL Blitz. (LET ME TACKLE PEOPLE AFTER A TOUCHDOWN)
Sources:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ea-not-looking-to-make-star-wars-movie-tie-ins/1100-6416288/
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-sequels-coming-ea-teases/1100-6432334/
The downsides to this is that we'll never get a Star Wars game for the next decade without micro-transactions, we'll also be a lot more unlikely to get Star Wars games that try new things and most will just rehash already familiar games with a Star Wars skin placed over them.
The upsides to this are that we'll likely have a slightly higher standard of quality for Star Wars games, because quite frankly many many Star Wars games in the past have been garbage. (I had a couple of them as a kid and I remember being unable to make it past the first or second stage in them) And while Battlefront isn't a great game that will define the genre, it's an accurate and faithful representation of what the Star Wars battles like Hoth would actually kind of be like. And it may mean we get a Knights of the Old Republic 3 from Bioware.
But how do you feel about this? I'm still pissed about EA's exclusive NFL license because my favorite Football series was NFL Blitz. (LET ME TACKLE PEOPLE AFTER A TOUCHDOWN)
Sources:
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/ea-not-looking-to-make-star-wars-movie-tie-ins/1100-6416288/
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-sequels-coming-ea-teases/1100-6432334/
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