EA shuts down Visceral, moves Star Wars game to another studio

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Am at work, no time to comment now except to say 'PIVOT THE DESIGN' FFS!

Gemini73 wrote:at a guess it'll be the wider public that keep buying EA's games in droves.

Post two above yours suggests not. "As long as they own Fifa unfortunately" - there will never be a time when EA don't own the FIFA license (unless EA go under, in which case we'll not need to have this discussion).

I know it's not popular to say but EA Access is an absolute bargain. :shifty:

Mafro wrote:Wonder how long it’ll be till Bioware are on the chopping block.

Entirely depends on how Anthem does. If it's a flop then yeah Bioware will be no more.

Saint of Killers wrote:
Mafro wrote:Wonder how long it’ll be till Bioware are on the chopping block.

One more flop and they're for the pit. (I'm assuming DA:I did well but ME:A did not.)

We'll have to see how Anthem does. I presume that'll have microtransactions all over the shop, but I'm honestly unsure as to how well it could do. If the pitch was the BioWare of 10 years ago making a Destiny-alike I could be sold on it, but ever since Mass Effect 3 they have been on a steady decline that could be damaging their brand value.

Anthem will probably be a mega hit.

NickSCFC

Basically, just boycott EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Microsoft and 2K and you should be able to enjoy your gaming.

Photek wrote:I know it's not popular to say but EA Access is an absolute bargain.

It genuinely is.

They are still scummy cumbuckets though.

Who wants to meet up and protest outside of EA Guildford.

Then afterwards we can protest outside of Hello Games who are just across the bridge over the river.

So apparently it wasn't due to it being single player. Jason Schreier has said the game was cancelled due to the project being a mess. EA just gave another explanation to investors as they wouldn't like hearing that.

Don’t you have to be honest with investors...

Photek wrote:I know it's not popular to say but EA Access is an absolute bargain.

I've played one game from. It and very little else interests me so I would like to disagree.

Moggy wrote:
Photek wrote:I know it's not popular to say but EA Access is an absolute bargain.

It genuinely is.

They are still scummy cumbuckets though.

To be completely honest EA have a free pass from me at the moment simply because Access is so good. I give it a couple of years before they ruin the strawberry float out of it.

They really are milking that Star Wars Licence, Apart from Battlefront Respawn are working on a star wars game as well as this one, 3 star wars games is too much from one publisher imo.

BID0 wrote:
Mafro wrote:Wonder how long it’ll be till Bioware are on the chopping block.

They're probably out on the next strike I imagine.

It's all dependent on Anthem, if it doesn't sell they'll either close or be fast tracked onto Mass Effect 4.

Gemini73

Isn't there another DA game in the works as well?

Photek wrote:
BID0 wrote:
Mafro wrote:Wonder how long it’ll be till Bioware are on the chopping block.

They're probably out on the next strike I imagine.

It's all dependent on Anthem, if it doesn't sell they'll either close or be fast tracked onto Mass Effect 4.

I don't really know anything of that game but it seems like a copy of Destiny. Would that really sell? At least EA get to push their loot boxes :datass:

Venom wrote:Am at work, no time to comment now except to say 'PIVOT THE DESIGN' FFS!

Photek wrote:They really are milking that Star Wars Licence, Apart from Battlefront Respawn are working on a star wars game as well as this one, 3 star wars games is too much from one publisher imo.

Shouldn't that be two Star Wars games? I mean, now that Ragtag has been shitcanned.

If Respawn's working on a SW game, I hope that it's along the same lines as Republic Commando, but maybe with normal troopers instead of freshly made-up super troopers.

NickSCFC

EA's generation goes from bad to worse

https://kotaku.com/ea-cancels-open-worl ... 1831786371

Electronic Arts has canceled its open-world Star Wars game, according to three people familiar with goings-on at the company. The game, announced alongside the shutdown of Visceral Games back in 2017, had been in development at EA’s large office in Vancouver.

EA Vancouver, a large studio that mostly handles support for a variety of the publisher’s games including FIFA and Battlefront, had been working on this open-world Star Wars game since October 2017, when EA closed Visceral Games. Until then, Visceral—best known for its popular Dead Space horror series—was developing its own Star Wars game. That project, code-named Ragtag, was a linear action-adventure game directed by Uncharted director Amy Hennig. EA Vancouver had been assisting on the project, and when EA closed Visceral Games on October 17, 2017, the Vancouver studio took it over.

So basically, if Anthem tanks EA is done.

EDIT: I suppose they have their sports line-up. So rather, if Anthem tanks original IPs from EA are done.

Disney need to take the Star Wars license away from EA. They have made two games since getting the license and the second game damaged the brand somewhat.

EA shuts down Visceral, moves Star Wars game to another studio

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