EA Reportedly Cancels Open World Star Wars Game

So, they made two Battlefront games and.....canned two games?

That Respawn one ain't coming out, let's be honest.

Damn ... All I wanted is a good StarWars Jedi action/rpg . I hope Disney regrets their decision to partner with EA and see this was a giant mistake ....

@get2sammyb If Disney is fine with the Marvel games license being split across Sony, Square Enix and Nintendo, I have no idea what they were thinking with EA getting Star Wars to themselves.

Different times I suppose.

Can another company have the rights to Star Wars? Honestly, Sony is the first publisher that comes to mine. I’m way of Activision, Bethesda, EA, and Ubisoft having it, and I’m not sure who else has the proper resources.
EA has been terrible for Star Wars games.

EA has not managed to release a single worthwhile Star Wars game in the entire time that they have had the license. Battlefront 1 was mediocre at best with much left to be desired, Battlefront 2 was a disaster that brought the law unto them, SWTOR started as a failure then became pretty good but was ruined by things players didn't want, their mobile games aren't anything special.

well, now they have assets for battlefront 3 amiright guys

Congratulations EA, you can't use an entire universe of characters to create a single-player game.

I agree that they need to take the approach they did with Marvel. I think the problem though, stems from "everything is canon" with Star Wars since Disney took over, while Marvel literally has infinite universes built in to their lore. I think if Disney works closely with developers, it would be fine though. I would like to see Sony, Ubisoft, and Square-Enix get the opportunity to work on Star Wars games.

Let Sony create a proper single-player game, Naughty Dog could easily continue Star Wars 1313.

I'm starting to think that Star Wars as a game properties is cursed. It's been more than a decade we have see a good game.

There's a pile of great star wars games, examine those that came before and build something better on that foundation. I'm still patiently awaiting a KOTOR 3.

@get2sammyb They must be reconsidering the deal with EA at this point. I mean seriously, how many years have they had the licence and all they've done is the 2 Battlefronts. Disney likes money way too much to let the opportunity go on being wasted like this much longer.

So EA cancelled the Visceral Games one because they said people didn't want Linear games anymore and out of the ashes of that, we were going to get an Open world Star Wars - which has now been cancelled...

I would gladly take prequel quality movies if it meant we also got games of the same caliber from that era.

EA is just garbage.

Given EA's track record since the start of last gen it's probably for the best.

'they decided that they needed something earlier than the planned release date for Orca, according to two people familiar with what happened. So they cancelled Orca in favor of a smaller-scale Star Wars project that’s now aimed for much sooner—likely, late 2020, which also happens to be around the time that I’ve heard next-gen consoles will launch.'

The sooner loot boxes are made illegal everywhere the better and then we might get rid of the likes of EA. Meanwhile I'll carry on playing my linear single player games, actually I'm in the mood to play some good Star Wars games today so where's my SNES 😆

@JoeBlogs yes. Exactly your previous comment is my sentiment

EA doesn't seem to know what theyr doing. However it's funny to see all the internet pretend they cared about the open world project that has now morphed again into a smaller project. Rumour that keeps on giving more rumours and articles.

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Seems everyone at GG is impressed with DS demo they watched. Now that's cool rumour worth talking about

How can uncharted star wars be mismanaged?? Just make uncharted 4 and replace the story and characters from star wars, put multiplayer with mtx and it's done. Or maybe make bioware star wars mass effect type rpg.

Dice make battlefront multiplayer only star wars (forget the single player, just concentrate on multiplayer like cod bo4 with great gameplay and a lot of content), bioware make star wars rpg, and respawn make story heavy star wars first person shooter (with multiplayer). Just rotate them each year so each of them got 3 year to make it.

At this point EA should stay away from Space games in general they ruin them all in the end. Battlefront, dead space, mass effect and im pretty sure they will ruin Titanfall now they own Respawn

@johncalmc when you get yourself employed at EA with the convincing competence to explain this honourable thing to their shareholders?

Just gives a decent star wars game!! This should be a license to bloody print money!

EA is the video game dev equivalent of Fox. Cancels everything potentially good.

I just can't believe it...

...that we've had over thirty comments on a story about the EA Star Wars licence and nobody's posted this yet:

Also, I actually kinda think that this guarantees the release of Jedi: Fallen Order (although it'll likely get delayed until 2020, given that we've seen nothing of it thusfar). EA are a business and they'll have to show something for all these fruitless money sinkholes at the next shareholders meeting.

There’s no way called order is good if it’s out this year. They forced the announcement from the CROWD of an event...it was a rushed announcement done because they had no choice. Secondly, Respawn isn’t that big of a team and they’re doing TF3 as well. With the lackluster sales of TF2, I expect fallen order to be the end of Respawn as well

Just give the Star Wars I.P. to Sony for crying out loud!

I was just reminiscing yesterday about my excitement to play First Assault before that got cancelled too. It's a dark time to be a Star Wars gaming fan.

@Rhaoulos if EA scrapped the first project, then canceled it altogether I can assure you it wasn’t going to be good. EA has to please stockholders. For them to put years worth of work into a title and then scrap it, it must have been awful

@Danloaded they’ve owned Respawn from day one

I just came up with the best idea ever.
Step1: Tell EA to go... make love to themselves
Step 2: give the IP rights to Cloud Imperium Games
Step 3: revamp Star Citizen as a Star wars game
Step 4: Rename it to "Star Wars Citizen"

@JJ2 don’t believe that at all. If that’s the case, dev could have easily shifted to next gen. The game got scrapped because it was bad. EA wouldn’t scrap a title this far into development if it could make money

I loved Rogue Squadron, Pod Racers and KOTOR on N64/xbox but not been excited for a star wars game for ages, i still love the movies though i thought The Last Jedi was refreshing. Bring on IX

Probably trying to cancel the contract and recoup some of that cash.

@jly1987
I mean it's not really matter of believing or not. It's just the whole rumour as it's reported from the source. I think the whole 'rumour' is more like a non event itself since the project of a SW game was never properly revealed and still is, somehow, 'something'

@get2sammyb yeah but it's all homegrown trouble by force-injecting (see what I did there?) PC culture, diversity and GREEDY money making schemes in the franchise. Running one of the two biggest sci fi franchises with all it's nostalgia bonuses into the wall... is a feat in itself.

@jly1987 You seem way too convinced that EA only makes smart decisions. This has nothing to do with quality, they are all about making money. The game would have never been scrapped if they had found a way to force players to buy lootboxes in a linear game.

I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of games developers cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. Something terrible has happened.

oh well another thing EA has effed up

Disney should really pull the series from them they have done nothing but hurt the brand

Must have been a single player story campaign. EA don’t do those!

@Kiloman74 of course not, according to EA they don't sell, i mean it's not like single player games won loads of awards this year is it.....

OH WAIT!

Star Wars games being cancelled ain't even news anymore

We could really do with a new Knights off the old republic game. They were great RPG's made properly.

@jly1987 EA acquired Respawn in 2017. They just worked together before that.

@jly1987 Not enough recurring revenue could be a problem.

@jly1987
Well, they scrapped the single player game because they don't believe in them and tried to rush together an open world game reusing the assets because "It has become clear that to deliver an experience that players will want to come back to and enjoy for a long time to come, we needed to pivot the design". It was doomed to fail at that point.
Only 5 years left on this terrible exclusive rights contract...sigh

@Jaz007 They should license it on a game-per-game basis.

Any dev who wants to make a SW game can pitch an idea to Disney, and they say yes or no. Just make sure we don't get flooded with a ton of SW games each year, or a bunch of cheap titles, and anything is fine by me; narrative driven like Uncharted, open world, FPS with multiplayer, an RPG perhaps, heck, they could even do some weird tactical RTS if they wanted to.

So EA was waiting in the bushes of love, not what Obi won thought.
https://youtu.be/RySHDUU2juM

Well worth the billion for the 10 year license, right?

Sony let Disney borrow the Spider-man license for Avengers. Maybe Disney will give Sony some Star Wars rights.

Star Wars used to be great but I think the last couple of flicks have been a bit crap and have dampened my SW spirit somewhat.

Single Player linear perfect
Open World Action/RPG Perfect

what the hell have EA done the morons!! they are worrying about Loot Box money, not gamers tired of this attitude.
would love to see that Licence in Sonys hands.

@FullbringIchigo they so stupid huh! 😂✌️Can’t wait to see and hear the anthem reviews......