EA Should Lose The Star Wars License (The Jimquisition)
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Electronic Arts has handled the Star Wars license terribly. They've screwed things up in ways that are embarrassing to watch.
Having only squirted out two Star Wars Battlefront games and made a mess of both, EA deserves to lose its exclusive hold over Star Wars games. EA also just deserves to lose in general.
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"Cosmetics would violate the canon!"
But Palpatine showing up during the Clone Wars and massacring Republic troopers was definitely canon.
*Sir, the Supreme Chancellor is electrocuting his own men!*
I know right, that comment almost sounds like he never played the game or even knows what people loved about the originals.
"Cosmetics would violate the canon!" Then wtf is darth vader doing in starkiller base
And why is luke here during the clone wars!?!?! And wtf why is kylo ren in the middle of the clone wars to
Not to mention darth vader fighting. Anakin Skywalker.
Seems Canon to me
"Cosmetics would violate the canon!"
Something tells me those EA guys should watch Ashens' videos about old Star Wars figures. Like the metallic red Christmas Vader.
"I didn't know there was this much green in the whole galaxy..."
- EA, maybe
Nice.
ahahahah you bloody wanker, that was kickass x'D
This single player Star Wars game is worth...ONE QUARTER PORTION!
Lol
*how crass sonnnnnn*
At least Battlefront 2 got one thing right. It showcased Lootboxes to such a extent that some countries now class them as gambling you have to at least give them that point (:
Fifa does this for years, the difference is that they targeted a new audience which didn't appreciated being fucked in their arses.
EA: How can me make Star Wars good?
_Hours of debating later_
EA: Microtransactions!
Business People: *_Intense Clapping_*
AND LOOTBOXES!!!!! *Clapping intensifies.......
"Maybe make the game fun?"
[The CEO glares daggers at him. The guy gets thrown out of the 10th story window]
I think of it like this meme: “Microtransactions!” “Season Passes!” “Good writing!” “…” “…” (is defenestrated)
*"You probably don't want Dingo Manburger in pink."*
Of course I do. We all do. He'd be fabulous as fuck and you know it. Don't decieve us like this.
Why must you suggest things we'll never get?
"We feel that keeping popular characters such as Dingo Manburger behind a paywall will incentivize players to earn more money for a real sense of pride and accomplishment"
"You think you want that, but you don't"
Waiting for the Dingo Manburger Black Series figure!
Correction: EA should lose all of their licenses.
Correction: EA bad praise Big Geraldo del Riviera
Big Geralt that be a great day if that happens
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No. They are still running a couple of good licensed games. They should just lose their exclusive privilege.
EA should be stuffed and mounted above Jim's mantle, right next to Digital Homicide, Cobra Studios, Sticli Games and all the other studios Jim fought off over the years.
Jim, you're mistaking EA for a gaming company. They haven't been a gaming company for years.
@Brooke Stern tbh the NFS series was decent till like 2010~
Mirrors edge fucking ruled too.
I guess the worst part about all this...is that LucasArts died for this.
Granted, their output became increasingly 'eh' as time wore on, and their closure was kinda to be expected, but the fact that we lost the guys who developed some of the best licenced games in the 90s and 2000s. LucasArts made San Francisco an American home for game development; when you have companies like Double Fine and Telltale open up shop nearby, it shows that there's something good going on. Hell, Double Fine in recent years have taken to remastering some of the old adventure games, because LucasArts' legacy is an important one.
It's important to show how significant LucasArts was on the games industry in the time they existed, and to show their handling of the Star Wars licence when the films were the hot topic of public interest...and it's important to compare to how EA have been handling it for most of this decade. Two games for the extent at which the films have been resurgent is simply pathetic. I would sooner see Disney open up its own game studio, purely to flip the bird at EA and run it over their face, simply because EA have proven themselves irresponsible, disrespectful, and apathetic towards Star Wars as a franchise.
I'd be down with Disney setting up an in shop game dev. It's not like they don't have the capital for it.
You forgot the biggest argument against the "violate the canon" defense.
They have sequel characters, fighting in prequel battles.... #WTF
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@@TheBros2theend STFU
So did the original Battlefront games...
There's also the fact that with Vice Admiral Holo, or as me and others call her "Vice Admiral Gender Studies," breaking the lore of hyperspace that lore and the rules of that universe set by the lore are shattered and as such a pink Vader is now more than viable. On the note of the Pink Vader, in my opinion it wasn't fabulous enough, it was fabulous don't get me wrong but still needed more gemstones and glitter.
I thought The Last Jedi was a terribly written film with decent action and fairly likeable characters. It's a shame every other youtuber criticizing the film spends half the video frothing at the mouth about SJWs.
Me whenever I watch a youtuber criticizing Star Wars the Last Jedi.
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R.I.P Bullfrog, Origin, Westwood, Pandemic, Maxis, Visceral
Pandemic.... How I miss their games. Also Free Radical. They were coming out with a really good star wars battlefront game when they got canned.
I miss Mercenaries. The franchise died too soon.
Never forget. ;n;
Jesus Christ loves you. God bless heal save and forgive you in Jesus Christ's glorious holy name amen.
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Even worse, there has been a high-quality game pumped out for Star Wars: LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And when two AAA Star Wars games are outdone by a Lego adaptation, something has turned rotten. Not to insult LEGO adaptations, of course. Fucking love those.
Edit: Well fuck me raw, wasn’t expecting this response. I feel like a big old TH-cam boy now.
I do love the Lego games but I wasn’t expecting to enjoy the force awakens Lego game as much as I did
Lego games are reliable. I can see why they weren't mentioned. They are meant for kids. You buyem on sale.
We don’t talk about LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy on DS
You know what, I just realized something. Now Lego has been associated with both better movies AND games based on major franchises. First Lego Batman being declared the best Batman movie by many people, and now Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens being the best Star Wars game in recent years. Coincidence? You be the judge.
Was surprised how robust that game was. Last LEGO game I played before then was LEGO Batman 2 I think? But played the demo of LEGO Force Awakens and was surprised how far LEGO games have come, even though LEGO Star Wars Complete Saga and LEGO Batman were the bomb. LEGO POTC on the other hand, or LEGO Ninjago... Well...
Jim, this video of yours is a masterpiece. You have so expertly captured my anger at the video game industry for not delivering more "Knights of the Old Republic"s and "Jedi Outcast"s. The KOTORs in particular were f**ing masterpieces, dripping with interesting characters and boldly expanding the lore, it is literally painful to conceive of all the lost opportunities that the EA has squandered. Single-player fans like me are victims of their greed.
My dude, I am right there with you on everything you said. Very well said.
Dingo Manburger is like that fantasy that Old Republic feeds you.
and it's never not been awkward as hell in an MMORPG.
Yes, indeed, the force is strong with this one. Pride and accomplishment, Heh, EA isn’t the dark side, they’re not even the Vong. They’re Forceless trash beings.
I had actually forgotten EA had Bioware under its belt and could tap into them to make a new Kotor.
Though sadly, I am not entirely sure Bioware is up to the task anymore what with Andromeda’s failure and their shift to more action focused games than rpgs...
Still. Would love it if we could get a new Kotor. Or a battlefront that was actually like the old battlefront games. (Still in shock they managed to screw that up)
@@sorenkazaren4659 The thing with Andromeda was that it was developed by another studio from "classic" Edmonton Bioware. That studio that made Andromeda were the ones that helped with DLC and multiplayer in Mass Effect 3, not the developers of its main bits like Edmonton Bioware. It's the same shit EA pulled off with Maxis, using the studio name as a brand rather than a strict group of people.
And yeah, quite a bit shocked in retrospect when it comes to Battlefront. What's funny is that BFV is a lot like an old Battlefront, as well as pretty much any Battlefield game for that matter, even Battlefield 1. BFV in particular due to the return of limited health and depots for health and ammo. Why couldn't they just make a Battlefield-y Battlefront rather than some casual jack off mess? Why not have tons of vehicles to hop into rather than as a unit (Battlefront 2 EA) or a fucking power up!? (Battlefront EA 1)
EA’s process with developers from the outside looking in:
1. Buy up hot developer
2. Have them make a game in the current money spinning genre or, if they have an established series, shift it towards that genre - regardless of their experience in said genre
3. Set high to ludicrous expectations for sales, either for the game or for an intended series of them
4. Shovel in micro transactions/loot boxes/insert money maker here
5. State that game has not met expectations, cancel support and/or series, move developer on to next hot property
6. Rinse and repeat 2 to 5 a few times
7. Shut down studio citing failure to meet expectations.
Anything I missed?
Well, EA was killing developers long before microtransactions, so at least this point is optional
Step 4a: Oppose any attempts to regulate said microtransactions and plead poverty as the reason why.
Step 4b: Give upper management high bonuses and nothing to the devs who make your games.
Rush the studio, push it out the door while having tons of bugs, and lie as much as possible.
Just slot in a few smug comments from the CEO of the time, and call it a day.
Yes. Insert progressive politics into a shitty game and dismiss anyone who criticizes your shitty game as a bigot/racist/nazi person.
Dingo Manburger surveyed the dark cantina searching for his prey, when a saucy half-droid twi'lek caught his eye, and winked at him. Dingo adjusted his menacing codpiece and waved back. It looked like Chungus the Hutt could wait another night to meet justice.
Excellence
thanks, I hate it
Oh... oh my gosh... for a brief moment, my whole brain lit up, and I saw an entire website filled to the brim with Dingo Manburger fanfic. It was glorious. It was disgusting. It was disgustingly glorious. And then, with a flash, my vision was gone. Was it a glimpse of a wondrous future, the promise of spicy treats yet to come? Or merely a stroke? Why is the left side of my face so numb? Does anybody else taste heavy burtations right now?
@@robbdn Sometimes, just sometimes, authorial intent goes off without a hitch, and a piece of text has exactly the desired effect. :)
wait its Manburger? i thought it was Manbogga
I get the feeling EA knows they're on the way out so they're doing everything they can to line their pockets before they finally die. If the game industry was a ship, EA would be the guy loading up the only lifeboat with gold before leaving the rest of the crew to go down with the ship.
@@magnolia549 I actually think they're fine, we all expect them to be bad but they still somehow get their games to sell, especially the sports games that everyone seems to want to buy despite them being exactly the same as the year before with a few different players in each team. They could literally do a $5 dlc that gives all the new content but instead a brand new $60 game.
@@NetherPrime If memory serves, FIFA19 was the first FIFA to sell less than the previous one in the UK. So... Even their sports game show some signs of weakness. It will be even worse if they lose their case against Belgium.
And if they are not on the way out, probably Disney has started to give them hell, since they have started to milk StarWars from every possible angle...and see EA not getting anything done and ruining the franchise reputation. Hell, with so much potential lost, maybe Disney is considering to break contract earlier including penalties!
@@chilenozo EA just doesn't think anyone wants singleplayer anymore
@@purplefood1 They know we want singleplayer but singleplayer can't be filled with microtransactions like multiplayer can.
If EA, Activision and Konami all bit the dust gaming would be amazing.
If you struck them down, another would rise, more sinister than you can possibly imagine.
Eh, as long as Activision treats Crash and Spyro well, they can stay.
Let's not forget Ubisoft
I don't think Activision is all that bad. They abuse microtransactions but they're still willing to provide single player games that don't have them such as Shadows Die Twice. They're willing to take risks on bringing things like Crash, Spyro, and Guitar Hero back.
And yeah, their microtransactions are "just cosmetic". They haven't done anything with CoD, Overwatch, or Destiny that hinders the experience if you don't partake in the microtransactions like EA did with Star Wars and Need for Speed.
You forgot Ubisoft
I'm stealing Dingo Manboger and you CAN'T STOP ME
How's your sexlife?
@@henrygerard2315 Jim never fails to satisfy me, if that's what you're asking
Dingo Manboger is still a better character than any of the new cast of fuckwits.
Good, become Dingo Manboger, this way it will be less likely you'll become a pontiff. We're all better off in a timeline in which this doesn't happen.
Don't steal borrow or copy-write claim it
EA’s Game-“It’s in the Loot Boxes!”
EA Games - Charge for everything
EA Sports - It's in the loot boxes
You know, it would be funny if it wasn't so sad how easy it is to just alter their slogans to these and still be, if not more, accurate.
"We can't do cosmetics because it would violate the canon." He says. While Kylo Ren can help the separatists. Or Darth Maul can help the First Order. Or Rey can help the Republic.
But... but don’t you remember the scene in The Last Jedi, where Finn and Rose were able to acquire star cards from the Canto Bight casinos and use them to defeat Snoke with the instantly bestowed combat advantages? See, those Loot Boxes are still more canonical than a pink Darth Vader, oF cOUrSe!
@@wartome3196 Disney gave them exclusive rights for production, not permission to do anything they want with the characters without approval from LucasFilms executive and production staff. Getting all art assets using Star Wars IP approved may not of been an option EA thought to present in a version that would get approved.
@@wartome3196 True... its funny you say they that. Cause they pretty much do that in Mobile Games at the moment, they slap Star Wars on nearly every popular game type.
EA doesn't try to f**k up, they just do f**k ups, there is no try.
War Tome Your pretentiousness is showing again, while it’s true that consumers can’t tell a publisher how exactly to make their games, and doing so in the past has occasionally led to gigantic fuck ups, what with “if you try to please everyone, you will please no one.” However, to imply that we shouldn’t be upset as to what is offered is a load of bullshit, we have every right to get angry with a product that fails to even come close to our expectations. This wouldn’t even be an issue if we had competing releases for these Star Wars games, as it stands, EA has us as a captive audience, and complete control of an IP that has been beloved for generations. All of this because they have EXCLUSIVE rights to the IP in their industry, that being video games. Strictly speaking since capitalism is all about competition, and these guys have exclusive control of a mega IP in their industry, and therefore have no competition, even if they did they are so arrogant that they likely wouldn’t even consider the threat of a substitute product, the issue is mate, companies like this are harmful for their respective industry, and we don’t want a beloved mega IP in their hands. Now, if it’s true that Disney is approving these things, which given their historic mishandling of the movies wouldn’t be all too surprising, then maybe they shouldn’t have rights to it either, unfortunately with Disney though, even if they do terribly with it, they are the rights holders, so that wouldn’t change unless they sold the IP. TL,DR it’s not a matter of demanding what we get you pretentious know it all, we want it out of the hands of clearly unqualified people, who are doing more damage than good because of their EXCLUSIVE CONTROL OF THE IP. If what box says is true, then this mess is corporatism embodied.
You think after destroying the Godfather of RPGs, Ultima, would clue anyone in that EA is beyond all hope at handling fantastic fantasy licenses.
What's a Paladin?
I'm not entirely sure.
Sadly there's literally only one person I know of who has ever talked in detail about how EA killed Ultima....... And he's left TH-cam for years......
Rather give the Star Wars license to Soulja Boy’s tech company than to EA
Yeah. 60 dollar games will be 200 from 400 discounted.
Dude nooooooooooooo
Kelvin Martinez I hope you are joking, EA has not done much wrong. It is crazy how people complain about microtransactions that they don't have to buy.
@@sheriffaboubakar9720 they complain about a game being intentionally created to be grinding or having content locked behind play wall..
@@sheriffaboubakar9720 don't have to buy yet BF2 it was pretty much mandatory to buy else your fun will quickly turn into rage from being stomped.
Rey fighting Darth Maul is already “cannon-breaking”
only if he ever lands a hit
I mean he was dead when she was like negative 40
Rey existing is canon breaking to me, after Mara Jade we get this? Disney needs to stop because I am already sick and tired of SW
No it's not. No cannon is harmed when they do this unless someone buys an antique cannon and break it.
Sorry, but.. "Cannon" is a big gun, "canon" is the "official story" thing.
EA should go bankrupt, we don't need EA, the gaming industry don't need EA
My thoughts exactly.
Same with Activision, Ubisoft, ZeniMax and any other not mentioned here, triple AAA publishers are a cancer on gaming as a whole.
@@Bobbo303 Eh, everyone but EA have produced SOME decent stuff, so they're not completely corrupted yet and therefore can stay. EA, on the other hand, is so corrupted that killing it would just be the only solution. How they're surviving right now is a miracle. Konami follows the same way as well.
@@alexusvalentine6233 Makes Gearbox look almost good by comparison
Bring on the industry crash!
but jim what about the ten star wars games EA has pumped out for mobile? surely those can redeem our faith
i dont want to even look so see how many mobile games there are ... im going to peek im surely going to be disgusted
@@Xenibalt I'm curious, but not hopeful, about what you found...
@Simple Barghest he saw proof that even mobile games weren't safe... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Tiny_Death_Star
Sh*tty mobile are slowing restoring my faith in all that is good about gaming lol
The mobile games are just as pay to win, Believe me
While we're at it, can we also give the sports licences to other companies too? I feel the entirety of sporting games has stagnated, no thanks to them.
While we're at it, can we close EA and redistribute all their licenses to studios who can actually make something worthwhile with them? That would be great.
Not going to happen.
I know close to nothing about American sports, but FIFA might be a worse hive of scum and villainy than even EA.
@@bdrago5420 the NFL and NBA might be about as bad. (Just look at how the NFL handled the concussion crisis for so long.)
Bring back NFL Street!!!!!!
Timothy Stamm EA is not the studio for basketball games though. It’s 2k. But the point still stands.
It's crazy how Battlefront 2 (2005) is a better game than the 2017 one. Guess with EA anything is possible.
Abuggle yeah, I’ve gone back and replayed the old battlefront games. They really didn’t stand the test of time well.
I disagree, but whatev
Star wars Battlefront 1/2 (originals) are still 2 of my favorite games of all time, they're the games that I default to if idk what to play. Also seeing as Battlefront 2 on steam has about 200-500 (1'800+ player peak last year) players at any given time of everyday, says a lot about a game that's a little over 13 years old.
It just goes to show, better graphics don't make a better game.
@@Abuggle I can never get bored of the domination mode which combines chess and shooting gameplay very fun to play with a friend in split screen
I think the behavior of EA and their handling of the Star Wars license should be contrasted with Games Workshop's handling of their Warhammer licenses. Sure plenty of shit games have come out under the Warhammer license lately, but we have also gotten a huge amount of genuinely good games like the two Total War games, Space Marine, Gladius, Vermintide, Blood Bowl, Battlefleet Gothic, etc. Jim is 100% right about license exclusivity here, and I think this contrast proves it.
Damn, Vermintide is So Good!
Honestly, let's not forget Warhammer Online. It had its flaws, but it was one of the best PvP mmo's out there. I truly loved that game.
Well if we contrast EA with GW for a bit, we have a company that started out good and could do no wrong, turned into a monolithic profit driven behemoth that held it’s customers in utter contempt while taking their cash, and finally started to see the light when their player base revolted and moved on to the competition after years of fuck ups and greed. So far EA has yet to come even close to seeing the light as it were.
Just going to drop this article from yesterday in here: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/21/heroin-for-middle-class-nerds-how-warhammer-took-over-gaming-games-workshop
Games Workshop is killing it right now, it's like a new golden age for them. They're cranking out quality specialty games, their miniatures are top-notch, getting into the hobby is cheaper and easier than ever. Their video game tie-ins like Vermintide, Battlefleet Gothic, and Total War: Warhammer are bringing in tons of new players. Their community management team is on point, with Warhammer Community and other modes of communication running at full steam ahead. I've already heard people mention that they're already becoming the gold standard for a company turning their fortune around, it was just a few years ago that they were losing money every year and were pretty much vilified by their player base and now they're making more money than ever. Video game companies like EA and Ubisoft could learn from them, they gave their fans what they wanted (moved story forward for 40k, cheaper mini bundles, more community engagement, etc.) and stopped fucking everyone over for short term gains.
Yeah sadly Space Marine was deemed a failure and never got it's well deserved sequel and Warhammer Online was ahead of its time :( (and ahead of what servers could handle back in the day)
Disney should lose the Star Wars license.
Star Wars should be public domain by now.
Oh lord...I wish but all we've got now is the stuff from 1929 and That Movie: The 10 Commandments...
Fitting enough to bring up, considering it's all Disney's fault the concept of the public domain died in the first place, as the extension of their rights-holding over their movies and characters gave way for people with money to push copyright law in the favor of publishers and studios over authors and creators. *Thanks for that one, Disney!*
If the US's original copyright term was still in place, Star Wars would've been public domain by the time the 90's ended.
AlluMan96 They got it extended to 90 years, but not past that. Steamboat willy is public domain as of recently.
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Well, that's at least better, yet I'm still annoyed. Steamboat Willy might be public domain, but Mickey Mouse itself still isn't and that alone was something that was never meant to happen. Copyright law was never designed to last past a dozen years or so, because that's the general estimate of when a creator can reasonably make money off something.
And I'd still call it a death of public domain, because if corporations can get a 90 year head start on owning and monetizing property, it sorta devalues the entire system and it's point. Like, sure. With ongoing series that are getting entries every 1-3 years and are worked on consistently, I can understand the want to keep that property in check. What I can't stomach is companies sitting on franchises they haven't touched for decades, yet still feel entitled to cry when someone attempts to do something with em'.
Yes, and Disney should stop giving an *exclusive* Star Wars license to any single entity again. Keep it diverse and flexible, on a case-by-case basis to ensure things don't get out of hand.
Worked well for Games Workshop. Been splitting my gaming time between Battlefleet Gothic and Warhammer Total War
They really should have, Games Workshop started doing it and that has been paying dividends for them And we the players have gotten some good Warhammer games as a result.
And that's the part I don't think Companies get, when the customers are happy (Or at least satisfied.) they tend to part with their money more frequently.
When you piss them off, you get less money from them.
Disney is the biggest problem with Star Wars atm. And precisely for this reason, it will never allow multiple companies to have the rights to its IPs. Even if the license was given to a halfway decent publisher (not good, the good ones are all either Japanese or too poor to buy the license) we would only get certain genres of games. Take-Two could have Rockstar make a great open world Star Wars game ala RDR, but there would be no chance of an RPG. Bethesda could produce FPS games like Doom or stealth games like Dishonored (or maybe even an RPG if Bethesda Game Studios got its shit together) but there would be no strategy games like Total War: Warhammer. The only way we would see a variety of Star Wars games is if Disney gave the license to multiple different producers, and given how zealously overprotective they are with their IPs that isn't going to happen
Right? License games out on a game by game basis and then maybe we could see something cool like an open world RPG made by CD Project Red etc.
@@exantiuse497 Games Workshop used to be the same way, hyper-overprotective of their Warhammer IPs, and then saw crazy money when they relaxed at let anyone with a good idea see what they could do with it.
Granted, Disney's protective instincts surpass old GW's, but I have some hope that after the disaster of giving it to EA, they at least think twice before locking themselves to another publisher for an exclusive contract.
If you think about it makes sense that Disney gave the Star Wars brand to EA (2013). How many publishers have developers as diverse as EA? EA (2013) had Visceral Games which are more than capable of making single player games, DICE Studios which are know for making FPS games,Bioware which are know for making RPGs,Black Box know for making racing games (and Skate),etc. A Star Wars game made by those developers would have been amazing and it pretty much covers almost all gaming genre. Then EA had to come and fuck it all up. Closing down almost all their studios and the ones that manage to pull a game out got fill with microtransactions.
This is true. The way things stood in those days, Disney probably saw EA and its plethora of studios and figured, "Rather than having to work out deals with various developers and publishers, why not hand it to EA? It's successful and has a lot of different studios specialising in different games under its umbrella."
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I did think about it and EA was still voted the worst company in America at that time, so Disney made the conscious decision to give publishing rights to a company that was universally hated and known for lousy business practices.
All I’m saying is, if I was looking for a publisher, the one voted worst company in America about 3 or 4 times would raise quite a few flags.
EA was and still is making money, don't forget, Disney is in the business for making money also. They both only care about the money. I think Disney couldn't care less what you do with Star Wars license, as long as you continue to throw money at them.
@@Ckoz2829 I think it boiled down to "Are they successful? Are they varied? Can they deliver?" Whether or not they're popular is less important than whether they can bring in the money.
It's like how unpleasant jerks like Wolverine, Batman and Grimlock are super popular because they're "badasses and don't take shit from anyone!" despite realistically you'd probably hate working with or under them. They get things done, sure, but they're also belligerent or arrogant, and don't care what other people think of them.
EA doesn't seem to care about their popularity with gamers, and neither do the only ones who matter to EA: their investors. As long as the money flows...
You know what'd be really cool? A remake of the original KOTOR with modern graphics and a massively overhauled game engine. Oh, wait, a couple of guys were already working on it and showing impressive results. But then Disney's lawyers pulled the plug on them because a couple of guys doing this project part time on their own budget were more competent then the people with an army of game studios and billions of dollars in resources. RIP Apeiron.
Sure, it's Disney's IP (Those words even hurt to say) so Disney makes the final call. But I kinda feel like THOSE are the sorts of developers Disney should have making their games. People who give two fucks about the Star Wars franchise, and are inspired to build on its greatness instead of milking its popularity.
In fact, if all Disney wanted to do was milk its popularity, they might as well axe EA and just get a bunch of different studios to churn out a bunch of different games so there's always a new game on the market every quarter. At least then there would be some variety.
Disney is the original and current champion of shutting down communities and fans. no company that behaves like disney should be supported by anyone but people are too stupid to look past the kiddie facade and see the disgusting corporate dogs that are beneath the skin.
Would rather just have more varied Star wars games.
Disney should do with Star Wars as GamesWorkshop is doing with Warhammer/40k, just shotgun it to various developers and see what comes out.
Sure there'd be a lot of not that good SW games then, but atleast it would be MANY not good SW games compared to just two.
It's because of American copyright law. If Disney doesn't dispute unauthorized or unofficial works based on its copyright (Star Wars), then they can lose that copyright.
@@FutureNaught GamesWorkshop also have to do that. Therefor they can still give parts of the property to a company to make a game. It might be one battle, one plante, one event or a couple of moments in time.
It works for games workshop, and the companies that then make really good games, they start giving more of their property to work with.
Due to this there are hundreds of amazing Warhammer boardgames, pc games and spin-offs (And many bad ones, but that is okay since it was just a small part of the property)
It would be interesting to see how much money those 16 star wars games made compared to the live service star wars games EA made, because we all know it's all about the money...
That's the sad thing, those 2 games probably did rake in more money than all previous Star Wars games combined. And that's probably both including AND excluding loot boxes.
Look up the top grossing games of 2018, they're all "live service" games. That is why they don't care about linear story driven games. God of War won a lot of wards but it doesn't even come close to the best selling games for example.
@@Crazyfistish We have to keep in mind that today games are twice as expensive as they were for example when Jedi Knight series were released. Market also is different today, video games were less popular during the time when for example KOTOR was released (and even with that in mind KOTOR copies were all sold out within few days after release, while Battlefront 2 copies litter plenty of stores to this day). And I won't start with piracy. Back then it was way more common than today, when installing a pirated game is way more tricky than just using crack on it.
And even with that in mind Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (which isn't top notch Star Wars game to begin with) - linear and short game was sold in 7 milion copies being "just" 2 milion after Battlefront 2. With no returns and controversy. I'd say Star Wars franchise had way better performance without EA. Keep in mind all the old Star Wars games had smaller budget than Battlefront 2. And that goes without marketing or damage control after controversy began.
As for loot boxes... EA disabled them fast. I would not expect much money to come from them after game's release because of that.
@@Sejten11 Yeah new games are more expensive, though most of that money goes to art assets. Game mechanics are a fairly decent expenditure, as unlike art assets most of it is coding and then tinkering said art assets. Voice acting and sound design varies wildly depending on the game, some are great with a lot of cost, some are bad with very minimal cost, and then we got all the various mix ups (high cost, bad VA and sound, low cost, good VA and sound, etc). So then that leaves story to be one of the cheapest costs for a game, even if you're spending a fair bit on various writers it's not as much as art assets (unless you forgo making really high quality art assets). That being said, considering increase in overall expenditures and then increase in sales due primarily to popularity of the game industry. I think it's safe to assume that they have similar profit from these crappy new games, as the old good Star Wars games had.
The thing they fail to realize is that if they made a good game, especially a single player one, then not only would it sell really well right now. It would boost their popularity a fair bit, and with high popularity and trust, you can sell more games. Rather than having people who refuse to buy a game you make because you made it. So if EA actually had a brain to think with, than they'd realize that all those games they cancelled are just costing them more money. Cause they had a budget, and that budget was used during the creation of those cancelled games. They don't get that money back, sure they cut the costs a bit from closing down game studios, but they're not making a profit. If those games had come out, then they could've expected to at least get their money back since many people wanted new single player games. But greed and stupidity rule this big publishers, and it's one of the biggest reasons for the decline in video games, despite the growing industry.
Basically I just think that EA needs to either grow a brain (cause honestly I really want Anthem to be a good game, I like Bioware, even despite some recent issues), or lose the Star Wars rights. Cause they suck at making Star Wars games, and it's bad cause on looks alone (which is what most of the money went to) the games look great, the graphics are really good, but the games are really shit. Hell as bad as Fallout 76 is (and the main reason for that being because the branch studio in charge of most of it's development had little experience with the engine, cause they used to be a different game studio entirely), for the rest of the games, which are buggy, but some bugs are left in due to players actually wanting them (such as skyrim's space program via giants). I've not really felt that Bethesda was trying to milk money from it's players by ripping them off (the creation club was however a bit ridiculous, though given how it ultimately is pointless on Xbox and PC, leaving the only reason for it's existence to be so PS4 players can actually have some mods to skirt Sony's mod policy). I feel that Bethesda after 76 would probably try to avoid something that catastrophic. So long as the new engine they're making isn't haphazardly thrown together like the previous one (reason for that being due to them being rushed to make it, and this was to release Morrowind). So yeah, hoping that things change for the better, though if I'm being entirely honest, at least as far as EA is concerned, I have very little hope. And I'm done ranting.
Gamers are waiting for cyberpunk, gamers waited for red dead 2, gamers waited for god of war 3,
Gamers waited for the witcher 3,
Gamers are willing to wait if you actually make good games with fair consumer practices.
Can't spell embarrassment without EA.
At least not if you're an EA employee.
You can write shit with EA
@@ooSicknesSoo No, every time you write shit on the phone, it autocorrects to EA
The Hermit you also can’t spell it without ass. Which EA is
Can't spell Sleazy without EA
Dingo Manburger is my favorite bounty hunter.
boy that pussy ain't got shit on Durge
Mine too, which makes me hate Disney even more for declaring Dingo Manburger non-canon.
Why does Dingo dick have a problem with Val Kilmer? The nicest celeb in the world. Wtf.
Even better than Sex Toy robot?
I remember when he got punched by Boba Fett in Episode 6. That was the best paaaart!
I'm rewatching some of these old videos while I work, and I never saw that Graham Linehan diss. Nice
Bioware isn't Bioware anymore. It's just a brand name for a studio different to what produced the original Mass Effect games and KOTOR games.
That's why I know Anthem will fail
It's the developing studio of Theseus. Similar to Bethesda, it seems.
KOTOR game; Obsidian developed KOTOR 2.
"small scale star wars game" = mobile cardgame
That sounds hard to make. Better make an idle clicker instead.
No, too ambitious. Try "Pokémon GO" clone.
do you have any idea how much work went into Pokemon Go?
they'll farm this one out to DigiHom.
Jesus Christ loves you. God bless heal save and forgive you in Jesus Christ's glorious holy name amen.
Mobile game was the first thing that came to mind when I heard that.
It’s ridiculous. There’s a plethora of extended universe lore they can borrow from as well to make any story campaign about Star Wars. There’s literally no excuse for their inability to greenlight a game. They’re old news and too uptight to be in this evolving industry. They should just become the publisher that is known for sports titles.
Is the only thing keeping alive EA and also the only game that konami want to make. (PES)
sadly sport games appeal to the commom useful idiot that always pay for the same game year after year.
and that idiot always pay for bullshit like dlc, microtransactions and whathever these companies shart
The extended universe lore has been declared non-canon by Disney, so they can't use any of it. They have to use the original movies and the new steaming craps that Disney dumps exclusively.
Max Savage - they actually included Thrawn in the Rebels animated series so it can be done.
Fragarach - yep! and they should cater to that market. If there’s an audience that’s willing to shell out money like that then that’s what they should focus on instead of trying to infect other genres with that nonsense.
@@umiluv That does bring a bit of hope, maybe we will see some of the more interesting elements of the expanded universe in the future, especially since the official stuff is starting to bomb.
How hard is it to make a new Dark Forces? Very hard, apparently.
You know what would be great? Dynasty Star Warriors. Will never happen though.
I wish Disney Revives Lucasarts, so that they can collaborate with other Studios for more Games.
@@conradojavier7547 All the employees of Lucasarts have dispersed to other studios. It could be revived in name only.
They've been screwing up that franchise since the first Jedi Knight. Or as I like to call it, The Fun Of Jumping Above And Behind You Whee Whee It's 3D Can You Tell It's 3D yet 3D 3D 3D Level Design So Convoluted You'll Never Even Notice Our Terribad Awfulsauce Boss Battles~! =D
...Jedi Outcast was better, though.
Damn, that would be pretty awesome! And the Dynasty company will work with anyone and any IP...
In keeping with the ongoing comparison to Unicron...
You can't spell "Death Star" without EA.
lEiA
We really need to find EA's exhaust port
Compare this output from the Star Wars license to the recent output of Warhammer games. It's night and day. Games Workshop opened up the Warhammer IP and we've had smash hit after smash hit bringing in the exposure and money. The games that don't work out end up being mobile cashgrabs that no-one cares about while Total War and Vermintide are market leaders in their genres and are arguably generating more interest than the tabletop game and theres a dozen other smaller success stories for the IP.
Open up the Star Wars license and every damn developer would have amazing ideas for it and Disney could have the same kinds of successes. Instead its been wasted on low-effort disappointments. Its so depressing to imagine the possibilities of what we could be seeing from this universe.
Imagine a RockStar Star Wars game.
You know that sounds amazing just imagening the kinds of games we would get, the possibilities are endless plys Dysney
SW is a pale shadow next to 40k.
Jesus Christ loves you. God bless heal save and forgive you in Jesus Christ's glorious holy name amen.
Came down here to mention GW and the Warhammer franchises
My prediction is that we will get a star wars mobile game in 2020. Maybe a reskin of Dungeon Keeper Mobile, where you'll have to dig your rebel ice-base.
they already made one. SW galaxy of heroes... utter trash ofcourse.
Who cares? Stars Wars is dead. It died when George Lukas had to change his vision for the triology when people didn't like Jar Jar Binks.
They've made like six different Star Wars mobile games since getting the license. All of them are bog-standard EA microtransaction rubbish, just like you'd expect.
@@Nathan-kk6lb Force Arena is actually brilliant. Played it for months.
Other than that Force Commander is bog standard and all the rest are trash.
Please, everyone knows Jim’s Star Wars persona is Sterling the Hutt.
Who opposes Czerka Corporation with his army that are genuinely loyal to and love him while he hosts his own pirate holonet program under the Empire’s nose and is harried by the Romine duo of smugglers who he honestly could crush whenever he wants but has dubbed them not worth the effort.
Those who REALLY piss off Sterling the Hutt end up in his ironic torture dungeon where they meet “the Saw.” And Sterling the Fucking Hutt Son doesn’t pass that job off to any Devaronian looking for a hard-on, no he’s the Saw himself!
BioWare won't stand a chance when Anthem flops
Neither will EA
Rip Dragon Age 4
I'm wondering what licenses will be sold first? Command and Conquer?
@@Kaunte yep, I want Anthem to succeed just so Dragon Age 4 could happen. Then I realized that even if that is the case Dragon Age 4 will never be what BioWare invisions, it will be a "games as service" shell of its former self.
If.
There are a ton of gameplay videos and a demo releases soon. While I despise EA with a fiery passion it does appear that Anthem is, despite what Jim says, interesting.
I am willing to give Bioware the benefit of the doubt despite EA being...well.. EA.
"EA did nothing wrong!"
Said no one.
EA has been saying that for years now :P At least, the people cashing the really fat cheques.
13 minutes after you posted that, someone else posted to defend EA in a different section of comments: "I hope you are joking, EA has not done much wrong."
Well EA are still around, so maybe they've done nothing wrong-because they're still around.
There is always someone on Griffith's blood stained earth stupid enough to buy into an immoral filth king.
@@DoomRater The Berserk reference wns the internet.
Also in breaking news, sky still blue, fire still hot.
And FucKonami!
and war unchanged
Poop still stink.
Water still wet
Quite is still breathing through her skin
I miss the Rouge Squadron series, it was one of my favourite games on the Cube.
Well, there was a new entry that came out 3 years ago. I thought it was pretty good. EA actually made good Star Wars games after battlefront 2.
"Grinding in our games gives our players a since of pride and accomplishment".- EA
"Sorry Chief That Ain't It".- Star Wars Fans
But that's how mafia works.
Take something you like, make it bad and make you pay for it.
How about I pay EA one red cent for each match I play instead of $100 up front, so they get a sense of accomplishment as the money slowly trickles in! Hope I don't get bored of their crap after a week and stop p(l)aying!
*waves hand*
_tHEsE ArEN't tHE GayMZ yoU'rE lOokINg FOr_
It’s as if just throwing money around, doesn’t make a good game. Look at the Warhammer/40k games. Many are “bad” but that lets the good ones shine. GW throws those licenses out like it’s Halloween.
@joseaca because 99% of it is shit. Not bad games, but shit that happens to resemble a video game.
@joseaca oooo is Mechanicus good? It's been on my radar but literally no one has talked about it. I don't even know what it plays like.
I'm of a mind that Disney needs to pull a Warhammer 40k and give the license to anybody. There'll be a few bad games but the ones that succeed (i.e. anything not EA made) can outshine them all
@@RaithSienar mechanicus is somewhere between Darkest Dungeon and Xcom, if you grasp the concepts and like the style your good for hours and theres a fair bit of character customisation and semi roguelike elements to give it some replayability but its charming for doing something different, but yeah the issue with steam is all the asset flips and broken shit that isn't even playable or fails to achieve the basics of what a game is and then has the audacity to charge well outside its field, if you want to charge 30+ bucks youd better be a game with qualities that earn you into that price bracket
@joseaca giving devs access to making a game with a proven license is one thing. Giving "devs" access to selling half finished piles of burning liquid garbage with no reason to expect them to improve or meet basic quality expectations is another.
Jim Sterling stole my star wars oc, barely changed the name, and thought I wouldn't notice. But I did, Jim. Jackal Woman-Steak will be avenged!
The only EA Star Wars game I found enjoyable is The Old Republic but that was around even before Disney took over the franchise. Sadly if Anthem does terribly (and it likely will), The Old Republic's developer, Bioware will be sunk and likely go the way of other studios owned by EA.
Truly, i think SWTOR is the real KOTOR 3. It`s the only thing after the Disney deal, which still delivers material for the old Extended Universe plotline. This is something very special.
Nowdays i`ts more like a single player RPG. You can play through the rich and very good story content without any grinding and you can completely ignore all the multiplayer stuff if you`re not interested in it (but i have to say it`s really great to coop the game with a friend). Also, it gives you the opportunity to play roles as an Imperial Agent, Bounty Hunter, Smuggler or Republic Trooper - things we`d never see in a real KOTOR game. In addition the original KOTOR author Drew Karpyshyn ist now working on the plot.
Just in December last year new content was released. And an even bigger DLC is announced for 2019. So EA does something with the SW licence. But it should really not hold the exclusive rights for it.
Here`s a good video for everyone interested in the actual state of SWTOR th-cam.com/video/wJnUutuS23c/w-d-xo.html
Which is why I hope Anthem at least does fairly well, cause Bioware shouldn't need to be shut down for EA's bullshit. Hell no one should have to suffer that fate, the only reason most of these studios are stuck is cause they have very little to no way out from under EA's thumb, and that's a damn shame.
@@MrHeinrichMueller I liked SWTOR, I haven't played it in a while (been caught up in other things), but I thought that for an MMORPG, it had a pretty damn good story, and feel. Knowing that SWTOR is a lot like KOTOR but more open is why I like it as much as I do. I am really into solo games, even for games like Warframe, I generally play alone, only teaming up with others if I have to or if it was something me and friends wanted to do. So the fact that I don't need to worry much about multiplayer for SWTOR is a big deal.
Bioware is already dead! EA just revived the corpse and then stuck that zombie in front of a computer hoping we would not notice. they will use and abuse its bloated body until it rots away before finding another studio to execute before repeating the process.
Most of the devs who were part of Bioware when The Old Republic was being developed have left the company. It's an entirely different Bioware.
All the eggs in one basket - EA
There is a hole in the basket that they even can't fix it up.
No, because EA Sports (AKA games for mentally challenged people)
@@EstebanGallardo Think he specifically meant all the star wars eggs.
And then they throw the basket from a twentieth story window.
Can’t spell “eggs in one basket” without EA.
We have to stop buying things from EA to provide them with a sense of pride and accomplished
If only it were that easy. Sadly the non-gamer demographic will still keep buying their shitty ass sports games simply because that is the only thing they'll play which in turn keeps funding for EA
@William Burns I'd argue yes. Mainly because people who only buy and play sports games (which by the way are a fuck ton of) don't really care to play or even try out any other games and are clueless as to what goes on in the game industry. They simply buy another rehashed sports game because it's popular and literally the only game they'll play.
@William Burns looking back when I was only playing Madden, 2k, and GTA I can say I was essentially a non gamer, cant lie I began delving more into games when I saw the angry joe rant on the reverse DRM debacle with xbox, started looking at more game reviews and really started gaining a fundamental understanding of what makes a great game and gained a lot respect for game developers
It might be time for me to finally get glasses. For a brief instant, I swear the OP's comment said we need to stop buying thongs from EA.
@@ExaltedDuckthat too
Dingo Manburger vs Cornflakes Humonculus vs Sterdust at the Royal Rumble confirmed.
My original Star Wars character is Bumbo Flortly - A bounty hunter who once gave Han Solo a handshake and absolutely will not shut up about it ten years later.
Well disney, that what you get for closing down Lucasarts.
Yeah its depressing af, thinking about all the awesome Star Wars Games that could be made in cooperation with other developers. Bioware could do another Kotor, CD Project Red could do a story driven Game for adults, Respawn could do awesome Multiplayer Shooters; heck if you wanna stretch it you could bring in Firaxis to do turn based Strategy or From Software for the best Lightsaber Action ever. This feels like such a waste of potential.
Don`t forget Platinum.
yeah, a dmc style combo hack/slash game with lightsabers and force powers n shits. that would be amazing
From soft: Star soul, Blood Wars, Star Wars: die hand.
A Republic Commando 3 could be awesome
- KOTOR 3 from either Obsidian (Microsoft, Xbox/PC) or Tetsuya Nomura (Square Enix, PC/Xbox/PlayStation)
- Battlefront 3 by Rockstar North (Rockstar, PlayStation/Xbox/PC)
- Episode VII-IX adaptation from Insomniac (Sony, PlayStation)
- Kylo Ren origin story from Sony Santa Monica (Sony, PlayStation)
- Star Wars x Smash Bros. (Nintendo, Switch)
- Star Wars fighter from the Tekken team (Bandai Namco, PlayStation)
- Pod racing game by the Mario Kart devs (Nintendo, Switch)
- Retro-style beat-em up from Lizard Cube of "Streets of Rage 4" fame (Sega, everything)
- M rated hack and slash from either Capcom (Capcom, PlayStation/Xbox/PC) or PlatinumGames (Nintendo, Switch)
- Turn-based RPG from either Intelligent Systems (Nintendo, Switch) or Atlus (Sega, PlayStation)
- Western RPG by CD Projekt Red (CD Projekt Red, everything)
- Survival horror game from the Resident Evil devs (Capcom, PlayStation/Xbox/PC)
- Action-adventure game about Boba Fett from either Ryu ga Gyotaku (Sega, PlayStation) or Eiji Aonuma (Nintendo, Switch)
The list just goes on and on...
Jim Sterling, your original character is a rip off of MY original character Bongo Hunkburger, who WAS boba fett and actually have Chewbacca his hair.
You will be hearing from my solicitors, I told you DO NOT STEAL.
The shrimp necklace is a nice touch, you have to admit.
.... what?
Are we related?
Imagine the games we could get if copyright didn’t monopolise ideas and everything was in the public domain
"Thats no way to do business." What j.steph has said will ever be true: "if they cant make all the money, its not enough - fSKELETON WARRIORS!!!k any-one else."
*Star Wars: Battlefront 76 incoming*
need those LIVE SERVICES
Darth Vader was GAY ALL ALONG!
Vader is secretly Soldier 76's lover
Featuring a map of Tatooine that glows in the *fucking* dark.
Insert a "%name% 76 incoming" joke by MeowAlien on a each friggin video.
Give it to Naughty Dog, Insomniac? FromSoft, Nintendo, Capcom, Rocksteady, Suckerpuch, CDPR, who else? Really anyone in general would be better. But no give Star Wars to the 2 time winner of the worst company award.
The Racing Game genre isn't as popular as Star Wars, obviously, but EA did the same for racing games when it had exclusivity in representing Porsche in digital entertainment media.
Arcade racers to full on simulators all launched sans the Porsche marque because of EA. While all the marketing for EA's 2015 'Need For Speed' condescendingly rubbed a bright green 911 in our faces.
Is it ironic that Star Wars Episode 1: Racer is my favorite racing game?
I mean at least we got more RUF representation thanks to that...
I recently bought need 4 speed 2005 for 5 bucks on psn....it wasn't worth it so I can imagine how people who bought it for full retail felt.
@@maxforce NFS Most Wanted is one of the best ones...
@@JamesNeedsMiata sorry nfs 2015.
“Don’t steal Dingo Manburger”
(Googles “How to steal Dingo Manburger TH-cam tutorial”)
Pride and accomplishment. Ugh.
That sounds like a knockoff Jane Austen novel
Andrew Wilson should lose his balls and be required to buy them separately.
Better yet; have a random chance of one dropping from lootboxes.
Star Wars Kinect remains the Undisputed Emperor of Star Wars games.
disney should lose their ownership of star wars for greenlighting that atrocity.
I love Dingo Manburger with my whole heart and soul.
Say what you will about Activision - and believe me, I have - but at least noted Captain Planet villain Bobby Kotick runs a tight ship and seems to be smart about what he's doing even if it is completely evil.
EA's incompetence seems like they're trying to one up Konami. They've fucked up what is essentially a license to print money. EA could have slapped Obi-Wan Kenobi's face on Atari's Maze Craze, called it Escape from the Death Star, and it would have still made money.
EA's method of killing studios is by growing them way faster than their management can effectively handle. Ironically, the same seems to be happening to EA itself. It's grown so big the board just doesn't know what it should be doing with the available assets (or likely can even keep track of said assets.)
It's still sad to think that EA started out as real pioneers in the gaming industry and now they're a shambling monstrosity just running over everything in its path.
Correction. Hacktivi$ion. Why? Because they are hacking their games to pieces. So much so that they even hacked away our chance to pre-order COD4 remastered(A lootbox free version). I could go on but I digress. If I must, just look at Destiny, *nuff said*
Going to have to disagree heavily about Activision. After Bungie walked out the door, they're effectively left with CoD as their only reliable cash cow on a consistent basis. All the other major Activision IPs that had been successful have been run into the ground.
They still have Blizzard, but even they are a shell of their former selves at this point, and both players and investors alike do not have much faith in them anymore.
it's almost like when corporate heads start to outnumber the actual developers the ability to develop games drops
That might be a big part of the problem. Instead of comparing themselves to their worst, they should compare themselves to the best.
Instead they compare themselves to Activision. That's like comparing a lump of dogshit to a pile of catshit- the only real difference is how messy it is to clean up
We could’ve had so many good Star Wars games if ea didn’t have the licence....
There could've been games.
And the award for stating the obvious goes to
@Boba Fett They don't need an exclusive license for that. And ... TOR is still better than the two new Battlefronts.
Well the opposite of this would be Warhammer, just giving the liscense to anyone and everyone. Was that a success? I dunno, there are some great Warhammer games, but it also associates the franchise with mountains of shit games.
Oh yeah? Do me a favor and remind me of the GOOD games before EA got the license.
And you can't go older than 2006.(Pro tip: There hasn't been any good star wars game for the last 12 years).
So to blame it on EA, is frankly ridiculous.
Even more so, when one realize the star wars universe is extremely limited as to what you can do.
No no, BioWare isn't making a new KOTOR. They're making..... an online shooter.... Whoopdie freaking doooo
missed out the Lego Star Wars games Jim, how could you...the best Star Wars games
Real talk.
The Lego Star Wars games are fun.
Wait a minute Jim... are you telling me you're NOT happy with 2 content lacking, overpriced P2W $60 games and a few generic free-to-download mobile games?
Also, totally not stealing Dingo Manburger.
Like, does he not have phones?!
@@ais4185 Obviously he can't afford to buy a sense of pride and accomplishment.
BF2 hasn't been pay2win for over a year. Perhaps researching before making claims would be beneficial for not looking stupid
LostTman1093
Doesn't matter if they were forced to remove the P2W garbage. It shouldn't have been in there to begin with. Oh, and Battlescam 2015 is still P2W.
Then again, I'm just shocked how you can defend a company that has proven time and time again to be a money hungry demon that will stop at nothing to get more and more money, even if that means shutting down an entire company and ruining countless lives. Or ruining the gaming industry with Season Passes, DLCs, microtransactions and half-assed games.
@@NerevarOfficialReal I'm not defending EA AT ALL, I'm just saying DICE, you know, the people who actually made the game, have changed it to something actually worth playing.
I get not liking EA, but using BF2, a game DICE has made worth it, as an argument at this point is not only foolish, it is ignorant. There are a shitload of reasons to hate EA, but DICE and BF2 are not it.
That 2002-2006 / 2013-2017 comparison is mortifying
Also, don't forget Rogue Squadron. That shit was pretty neet too.
Imagine having to explain to someone what you're watching whenever you click a Jimquisition. The intro as surreal as it always is, Jim wearing something absurd, getting heated about something only tangentially related to the video itself.
I'm not sure I'd even look forward to a modern BioWare Star Wars game. Mass Effect: Andromeda was awful. And Anthem looks uninspiring.
I mostly wanted Andromeda to be a good replacement for 3's multiplayer, and it was even made by the team who had made 3's multiplayer, but they just didn't get it.
On the other hand, I understand the technical issues the rest if the game faced. It was "in development" for years, but most of that was working with the Inquisition team to even get Frostbite working as anything but a shooter engine, and what little progress was made on the actual game was thrown out twice.
Andromeda, as it launched, was made in 13 months. Unlike when Obsidian put out rushed games, kotor 2 and neverwinter nights 2, Bioware Austin wasn't given the time to actually fix much before the game was abandonee. And, at least from a multiplayer perspective, the few changes they did make actively made the experience worse. Game launches with only 2 good guns, so most people were running melee builds. Only balance patch nerfed melee and those two guns, instead of buffing anything else.
Mass Effect 1,2,and 3 were massively overrated as well.
@@oiitssean Nah
@@kyleweaver2578 I never finished 2, never started 3... But I fucking loved the First One. I can see where someone would draw that conclusion though especially after that first E3 annoucnment where "every choice you make will matter and have significant consequence in later titles" pitch they made when the game was shown off.
Fun fact: I did NOT know the Land Cruiser in the First Game had an Alternate Fire/Cannon until the last mission with it. So I spent all my time fighting those Sand Worm bastards chipping away at their health for like Half an Hour and that was my major complaint before I accidentally blew up some Geth right before the end. Made my 2nd Playthrough SO MUCH BETTER.
anthem looks like warframe and destiny reskinned
I don't know why I never hear anybody saying anything about the lootboxes (randomized card packs) in PVZ Garden Warfare 2. This is a game that is clearly marketed towards children, even more so than Battlefront, with gambling mechanics, and published by EA. Unlocking certain characters through randomized card packs definitely gives a measurable advantage. Yes, they give you the option of buying a BASE set of characters through a character specific card packs which unlocks 1 whole character at 40,000 coins, but this does not include all the unlockable characters. These excluded characters are divided into 2 halves and you need both halves to unlock the character. They can be obtained through various methods. Some through a boring, time consuming, and difficult mode called infinity time. Some through additional randomized packs which contain both cosmetics and character pieces. (Your chances of getting character pieces through these packs is very small btw.) Some you can purchase through a vendor named Rux who will sell a specific character piece at 1,000,000 coins. What Rux offers varies from player to player, his inventory changes twice weekly, and it does not always contain a character piece.
Coin prices are:
56,000 = $2.49
120,000 = $4.99
280,000 = $9.99
630,000 = $19.99
1,500,000 = $44.99
2,500,000 = $64.99
Or you can earn coins through gameplay at about 100,000 coins equating to 1-1.5 hrs of gameplay.
Personally, I have never purchased a single coin from EA. This game gave the option of importing your characters from Garden Warfare 1, which I did, so I started this game with half of the characters already unlocked. I have been playing it since it's release nearly 3 years ago and clocked an average of 250hrs per year. All this said, I finally unlocked the last character 1 MONTH ago.
I feel like more people should be talking about this game. EA still supports it. They even unlocked a new game mode a month or 2 ago. THIS is the EA game marketed to young children with gambling mechanics. Forget Battlefront.
Didn't Jim exclude it from GOTY considerations despite loving the actual game for that exxact reason? and obviously the backlash isn't as big, because nobody cares about Plants vs Zombies as much as people care about star wars
@@LKAChannel yes he did good recall I had almost forgotten about that
@LKAChannel Good to know. I only started watching Jim about a month ago.
@Nothing New: Welcome and enjoy your stay. Please leave your love for EA and/or Konami at the door plz ;-)
@@ooSicknesSoo No worries. Both companies have no love or respect from me anymore. You can't close Visceral, kick out Kojima, sell a save slot, destroy Dungeon Keeper, turn Silent Hill into a slot machine, or declare single player experiences to be dead... without earning an a eternal "Screw You" from me. I only play PVZGW bc it's one of the few games I can find anymore with good split screen co-op that I like.
I think the video could just be "EA should lose SW license because it's EA". Roll credits.
Let's have a moment of silence for our beloved Stars Wars IP currently a POW in the internment camp known as EA. May we pray for your safe return to the open market.
disney is the internment camp. ea is just a labour assignment.
@@MrJay_White Disney is the leaders, EA is Mengele.
I bought Battlefront in 2015 for my bf's birthday. It was $79. Worst decision of my life.
It was a nice detail on your part regardless, but a waste of money indeed!
Can't wait for more Dingo Manburger. It's such a shame he's never shown up in any star wars games, books, movies or even TV show
Disney is now aware of him so calling it now he is going to be in episode 9
"Guybrush threepweed"
Is this considered a hate crime......
I heard "Threepweed"
Yeah pretty sure it was Threepweed
@@tygergray6750 That's what I heard too. And let's be honest - Guybrush is totally a stoner. What do you think all those hemp ropes on pirate ships were for? Sailing?
"Threepweed", dude.
I think it's supposed to be an inside joke since the characters in Monkey Island constantly mispronounce his name.
"Well then Thriftweed"
ALSO
"So long Thumpwind or Thriftwood or whatever the hell your name is"
I'm not sure why Disney seems so intent on getting out of games and just putting their stuff in the hands of others. They sold off the Star Wars license and also go rid of their internal studios. Hire a team to work with publishers and developers and carefully choose winning projects while controlling your licenses. Get a Kevin Feige but for video games instead of Marvel movies. That huge list of games prior to EA's deal shows what a great job Lucas Arts did. Jedi Outcast II and the KOTOR games were some of my favorites.
Right? Signing that exclusive EA deal was the worst decision they could have made. It would have been better if they had their interns pick which game pitches got green-lit... Or their kids. Or really just one dude that actually kinda likes video games. Not EA. They don't know anything about video games.
I had a dream once that Machinegames (the folks that made Doom and Wolfenstein great again) were given the green light to make Dark Forces/Jedi Outcast great again. I woke up with a huge boner.
Who’s here watching this before Jim makes the sequel video on Monday hopefully
Let's stop for a second and think about why Disney handed the license to EA of all companies in the first place. Either they knew what a colossal bunch of skeleton warriors EA were, or the decision was made by some suits who have no idea what the game industry is like. Either way, it's clear that what Disney's looking to get out of this deal is endless trunks of cash, not quality video games.
Most likely EA just had the best conditions. While its fun to assume that companies are run by guys that have no understanding of their property while the fans of course have and while there is some truth to the fact that job competence suffers to much compared to managment competence in higher levels (though of course the latter does become more important), Disney didnt became the multimedia giant just because Walt Disney did some great movies. And they most likely did calculate the risk. Not saying it paid of for them, but they probably assumed something like what happened could happen, but was worth the risk given the gain EA provided. In a simpliefied manner: If a more focussed studio or spreading it out towards more studios would have made 50 % more money, but they would have gotten 51 % less, EA still was a good deal.
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It is almost certainly the latter. I don’t have a link on hand, but Disney has stated that the gaming industry is outside their realm of expertise and that they would rather not risk expending the huge amount of resources needed to not only get a foot in the door but catch up with everyone else. This is why they decided to let gaming studios which already exist make Star Wars games - they probably saw that EA was able to make games that brought in a lot of mo why and left it at that.
Well, they’re getting neither. Hence why Disney got pissed off at EA.
A third option is that a pair of executives from each company went to school together and when the discussion about Video Games came up at Disney, the one working there was like “I know a guy.”
Where's your sense of pride and accomplishment?
And how much does it cost?
to be fair, all these AAA gaming companies really lack any sense of pride and accomplishment in their games. Even their players don't have any sense of pride or accomplishment from doing anything in their games.
Tubeite more like "how much did it cost you?"
@@bruhSaintJohn I haven't bought any pride or accomplishment. Microtransactions are complete bollocks.
I like to think Jims SW character eventually makes the transition to the dark side, becoming Darth Grineous.
chris B Darth Cungus
More like Darth Diabetus
Making the videogame license exclusive to just one company was already a big mistake on Disney's part
You just described every RP character on SWTOR in your intro lol.
Hey! My totally original character Darth Maulia(DO NOT STEAL) is actually NOT a Mary Sue, because she's only the second-strongest force user ever to exist(the strongest is Revan, her boyfriend
@@Reqqqqqs Also the secret apprentice to Darth Malgus.
@@Reqqqqqs LMAO that's not an original character all you did was give Darth Maul tits and put an "ia" at the end of the name.
@@darthpaul4295 r/woooosh
@@tmp5194 LMAO read my name it was clearly intentional, you just r/wooshed yourself.
Star Wars Old Republic was the last good SW game despite it being an MMO.
For a SW game with the depth and vastness of a Cyberpunk or Red Dead, I’d gladly pay 120$, no questions asked.
If we only get one SW game every 5 years that is stellar, I’d be willing to pay more if need be.
I'm gonna argue that Stat Wars Knights of The Old Republic II was the last good Star Wars game. TOR did a fine job for as long as it could and was serviceable.
The force unleashed was the last best one. Ridiculous cool game.
So should Disney, but in all seriousness imagine if Ubisoft made Republic Commando 2, campaign included, using "Rainbow Six Siege with a Star Wars skin" as a foundation. How about a For Honor like Jedi game or a Far Cry/Assassin's Creed like single player experience where you play as Boba Fett? Ubisoft wouldn't even have to go out of their comfort zone to make something that would be well-received. Yeah yeah Ubisoft has it's fair share of criticisms but you're not gonna convince me that they'd be worse than EA and Activision.
Good point.
Ubisoft is also a greedy shitgoblin, but not as bad as EA and Activision. They still make some great games in different genres.
Ubisoft would be just as bad. They filled the last AC with inserted grind and then charged to speed it up... in a single player game? Yet somehow got away with it. Ubisoft are far better at slowly turning up the heat on shite is all. EA tried to go full greed too quick. Activison, 2K, Ubi, EA, WB, they are all as bad as each other to various degrees. Plenty of other publishers are just wannabee leeches as well but they are just too numerous to bother listing. Unfortunately they have the money for a lot of talent so you sometimes get the odd game that's good through all the money gouging crap.
I do not want Ubisoft with the Star Wars IP either.
Give it to an actual good gaming company/team like Obsidian, CD Projekt Red, Guerrilla Games, Santa Monica Studios, or even the creators of Celeste/Towerfall.
@@natecruz7114 the problem with that is that they would take too long making it because they'll actually want to put some effort in
I think while Unisoft are fucking greedy cunts at least they make entertaining games and dont completely fuck everything up the touch like EA when was the last EA game they didn't fuck up
"How? How do you fuck up Star Wars this badly?"
I genuinely will go to my grave wondering that. In the 16 minute long video, I had twelve ideas some pulling from the no longer canon EU, some original... all would be successful, mostly because Star Wars fans aren't as hard to please as they're made out to be. Basically what we want is simple, well told storytelling that merges the old with the new... the point isn't too look to now... to look with whats on trend but to MAKE trends... That's what Star Wars did. It made a massive multi-billion dollar IP using simple story telling, with a compelling manner. The fucking MMORPG looks like a fucking masterpiece by contrast to the empty headed bullshit EA has produced and will most likely continue to produce... mostly due to the fact they don't fucking care. They don't. They want to squeeze money out of fans pockets. And while I was one of maybe five people who didn't hate their bad Battlefront games (though I am not stupid enough to say I liked it...), I also realize that they are creatively as bankrupt as the businesses they torpedo with their nonsensical bullshit.
They don't. Want. To make games. Jim. They want to make a vacuum for wallet that sends you cash to their back account... and they'll do everything but actually make a product that does that to see it done. Kotor 3 you say? Fuck this shit. I'd throw all my cash at it. NOPE! That might show signs we have ideas. ANOTHER SHIT BATTLEFRONT!?!?! Don't worry it's on its way after we sell that crap we're pushing on the side...
Electronic Arts more like Electronic Farts.
More like Electronic Assholes
They’re passed the farts and into the sharts at this point.
shoutout to cyndago!
Oh no you di’nt!
@@7aflores7 I don't know what that means but I love it.
Your OC will get rule 34 in an hour
Tasty Castle
As soon as the words “Do not steal!” were spoken, the process had already begun.
The sad thing is his new OC is still better than the characters of the new movies.
@@nathansnaza8363 it truly is sad what feminism can do to a franchise. No surprise though when you discover that Disney is advocating for Transgenderism. Don't believe me? Just google Disney's The First Boy Princess.
It's been an hour, where's the link?
Is that a threat?
I want Obsidian to get the license. They seem to know what they are doing.
Seems like we'll find out for sure whenever their new game comes out. Im pretty d e s p e r a t e for it, honestly
Obsidian can, on a crowdfunded budget, whip out quality that BioWare/EA can't compete with. Hell, EA tosses millions of dollars at Star Wars yet can't even get out the gate.
I cannot wait to see if Microsoft actually allows Obsidian creative freedom with unlimited budgets. Ya know, what EA was supposed to do with studios producing Star Wars games.
Not one company should have the single rights to the series. They need to do what Lucas Arts did and work with many game studios to make a more variety of games
It definitely would be interesting to see what they can cook up. Without a doubt they would be better than the shit stains that EA has made recently.
HK you should pay those disgusting meatbags at EA HQ a visit
"How do you fuck up Star Wars?"
Ask Disney. They know all about that.
I got an email the other day offering me £10 off Anthem if I preorder before the end of next week. I'm not going to do that of course, but it seems that preorder numbers maybe 'below expectations'. Delicious! :)
Good.
EA must perish and it's shareholders go bankrupt! The vermin must die!
Nvidia is giving it away free if you buy the new rtx card. That would be the only way I play it because I simply have no desire to ever play a MMO-lite game again.
I remember being very interested in Anthem when I first heard of it, and then just losing all my interest when I discovered that it was an online Destiny-style shooter. I'm wondering if EA would have received more preorders if they'd instead had Bioware take those same art assets and instead had Bioware make a single player narrative driven game about people in powered armour exploring a hostile world. Say a Bioware RPG with a massively reduced cast, just having it be the party, a handful of NPCs, and the villains.
Wait for that one to come out first, Hunter.
Don’t forget Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, the highly addictive EA mobile game with insanely greedy gambling mechanics and a “pay to win” culture.
Yep! I'm sure this is the answer of most of the questions posed by Jim. Why make a real game, if you can make tons of money with an addictive mobile title. (PS: I like GoH as well)
Going to be honest with you, never heard of Galaxy of Heroes until I saw someone mention it in the comment section of this video.
If the micro transactions weren't so abserdly high in that game I dread to think how much I would have spent on it...
Dice has been proven to be a shadow of it's former self this gen and EA has been proven to mismanage intellectual property. The sooner Star Wars gets away from them the sooner Star Wars might have a chance at having some good games again.
It's not DICE's fault. The developers are obviously plenty talented (The Frostbite Engine is amazing in its efficiency and rendering repertoire). It's the publisher who gives the direction and very likely imposes harsh deadlines that the developers can't deliver on.
@@roberttausig9170 Not so sure about that... the Battlefield V Dice has some very rotten SJW Devs in it... I start to believe that it's not only the publisher EA that has reached unseen retardation levels... but also it's studios and with that some devs.
@@Hyp3rSon1X Since EA owns DICE, they control everything that goes on from including sjw agendas, chosing the spokespeople for events and give them the scripts for them to follow. For the developers at Dice it's do your job or be replaced by somebody who will. The people at Dice could make amazing video games should they be given proper time/budget and not be forced to include these agendas in the game.
@@fall-neckthetallneck2977 Well okay that could be true. But why would anyone ever want to work for EA anyway? They're not only evil to their customers, but also to their studios. Just look at all those studios they have shut down...
@@Hyp3rSon1X Game developers work at places like Dice because they get paid for they love to do whether it's 3d modeling/texturing, programming, ect. Imagine going through multiple years of school for game development, and a job opens up at a company like Dice. Sure, it may not be the first place that you had in mind. But it's a foot in the door of game development, you'll get paid to do what you love plus you'll be able to be behind the scenes seeing everything that it takes to put together these massive multi-million dollar projects. If developer gets shut down or lay offs happen, at least they'll have the experience to put on there resume so that they go and find other employment elsewhere.
"Employment body count."
...I like that descriptor. It's perfect.