EA closing Visceral Studios -

With EA closing Visceral the Amy Henning's SW game is no more.



www.ign.com/articles/2017/10/17/ea-refocuses-amy-hennig-star-wars-game-visceral-games-closing


I wonder what specifically made them do it, they've been working on this game for a while.

I think we all know of a game that changed directions midstream in development and how that turned out...  

^Yeah, with means that SW is dead. Also, troubling news for DA4. EA really, really want the MP open world e$X$perience.

Tbh, it's really not sure what's going on, but a lot of people are piling on "EA wanted microtransactions with lootboxes so canceled the single player game" thing but then Lootboxes are the anger du jour of gamers recently so not sure if that's true. The game was always one that I'd heard was meant to be coming but had heard mysteriously no info at all. I thought it was cus they where going to go for a Bethesda fallout style marketing campaign and didn't want to distract from the new battlefront, but it could've been that there where deeper issues going on.

What's weird now is that the only two Star Wars games EA has now is the new Battlefront and SWTOR and SWTOR came out before they made the 10 yr deal with disney. I'm surprised they are willing to let all that work go to waste as they where working on it for along time (they may still be using the assets - not really clear?) specially that IP must of been expensive and they'd want to make the most of it. I think it's likely more going on then just wanting to tack on microtransactions/multiplayer.

It means that instead of a contained SP game, it'll be an open game to play with your ~friends that will have ~unique loot from time to time. Wouldn't be nice to pay for those? EA thinks so.

There's nothing wrong with a well made action game.

It's rather vague, but given EA's track record, I don't think I can share your optimism. It's probably to shoehorn in more multiplayer and microtransactions. Looking at what happened with SWTOR and ME:A in light of the EA ordering Bioware to throw the bulk of it's resources at Anthem--a MOBA or MMO kind of thing-- if anything, the game will be less of an rpg.

I don't think they bought the studio, I think it's one of theire own?

And RIP Dead Space: best action horror there is.

We can speculate, but going by their statement you get impression EA decided it'd be more profitable to go open world/games as service/whatever direction.
Who the hell would want to work in those conditions? Spend years of your life working on something, do your job well, then some corporate duche decides to scrape the whole thing out of the blue.
Not everything has to aim for 5+ mil sales, I think Senua was made by 14 people or so, turned out still a pretty good profit for NT.  

The one game I was cautiously optimistic for... FFS, not everyone wants to be social butterfly while they are trying to let their mind wander....

The social aspect of gaming is killing me; I want to be social in social places like this, and that's about it. Being social is a job, and I work 70hrs a week already.

If EA were a person, I would shove a pineapple up his ass.

Well, it's not as if Star Wars is a topical thing.

Oh, hang on...



I feel a disturbance in the force.



SO LONG
an EA story...

I'd say it's the opposite:

In its current form, it was shaping up to be a story-based, linear adventure game. Throughout the development process, we have been testing the game concept with players, listening to the feedback about what and how they want to play, and closely tracking fundamental shifts in the marketplace. 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.

If anything, it sounds as the game will become Destiny Anthem-2 - multiplayer with lootboxes and minimum story.