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[Column] Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Disney Deal
MikeB
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George Lucas has sold the Lucas empire to Disney for the sum of $4.05 billion and we've got some thoughts to share on the subject, including what it could mean for MMO fans and SWTOR going forward.
From reading reactions around the internets, it seems that most people are reacting fairly well to this news. Honestly, when it comes to Star Wars, George Lucas essentially retired (with regards to Star Wars) after the original trilogy. Heck, maybe even after the first film! Aside from the prequel trilogy, George only directed A New Hope, after all. In the years since the original trilogy debuted, it seemed to me that George simply kept a tight grip on his IP and would occasionally tweak the films out of, I don’t know, perhaps boredom, but often to fans’ displeasure. George eventually got the idea that he was ready to direct the prequel trilogy and we all know how that turned out.
Read more of Michael Bitton's The Disney Deal.
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I wouldn't be expecting any new Star Wars MMO's anytime soon.
They still think they can fix SWTOR.
( Note to self-Don't say anything bad about Drizzt.)
An acerbic sense of humor is NOT allowed here.
Might want to reconsider some of that as according to Disney, to quote: “We’re likely to focus more on social and mobile than we are on console,” said Disney CEO Robert Iger during a conference call. ”We’ll look opportunistically at console, most likely in licensing rather than publishing, but we think that given the nature of these characters and how well known they are, and the storytelling, that they lend themselves quite nicely, as they’ve already demonstrated to the other platform."
Does anyone know if Lucus retained the Law Firm he had with Lucusarts or not that would speak volumes.
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Does anyone know if Lucus kept his Law Firm he had with Lucusarts that would speak volumes.
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People might as well start bitching now about the next trilogy not being like the Thrawn Trilogy and get it over with. I foresee much nerd rage.
If a planned release for episode VII is 2015 then I wouldn't expect another SW MMO until around 2020 at the soonest. The MMO market will be a whole other animal by then so who knows what it'll be like. I'm guessing with the new wave of more twitch-centric MMOs it will be in line with that. Don't expect it to be anything like SWG or SWTOR. It will be healthier if people just accept the fact SWG or anything like it will never be back...at least not with the SW IP.
Pocket change to disney.
The Walt Disney Company assets total $55.45 billion and their market value is $57.20 billion.
The Deep Web is sca-ry.
Yeah, they are a pretty poor preformer for such a big name company. Suprised Apple hasn't gobbled them up yet.
Hopefully Disney has a clue and will rerelease the original trilogy in a remastered, yet completely unaltered, state on DVD and BluRay.
No Special Editions, I want to see those classic films as they originally appeared in the theatre.
as mentioned it can at least not get much worse... And Marvel seems to do pretty well under the rule of the big mouse.
Buuuuuut for ToR i think this will equal jack... ToR is EA's deal and the only time they will have to deal with the new owner is whenm the licens is up for renewal.
This have been a good conversation
They (Disney) are saying they won't make/publish their own console games, but they will license other people to do so.
Which is what both SWG and SWTOR were/are: Made under license.
Keep wishing upon a star and your dreams may come true.
lol do people even know what disney does nowadays? aparently not... disney is the best thing that has happened to Marvel movies in.. well... ever
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
Not to mention, most already consider the prequels the death of the old Star Wars. Even a cartoon from disney might have been preferrable.
Disney hasn't really created anything original in recent memory. Instead, they have been buying up all the creative studios they can instead of competing against them. They own Pixar, Marvel, The Muppets, to name a few.
I'm not sure how I feel about the whole Disney buying Lucas thing. On one hand, Lucas has lost whatever thing he had back when the original trilogy came out. One of the primary reasons the prequels were released in the state they were is because no one questioned Lucas' decisions. So taking the decisions away from Lucas and Lucas alone can be a very good thing for SW. Disney is a very big company. The decisions for the movie will not be handled by one person as they had before (which can be good and bad).
Disney has the manpower and finances to pull this through and get a new SW movie out in three years. Question is...will it be any good? No one knows as of yet. But I am certainly of a belief that it cannot be worse than the prequels. Chances are it definitely won't be as good as the original trilogy. On the bright side, the prequels have definitely lowered the excpectations of the SW franchise. So hopefully this time people won't go in expecting to see the one film to rule them all.
I really don't think Episode VII can go anywhere but up from the last batch.
I do sort of wish they would do the Thrawn trilogy as 7-9 but from what I read that is not going to be the case.
As for the bad...well, it's Disney afterall. I'm really not keen on seeing episodes 10+ being straight to DVD releases like CInderella 2, 3 and whatever number they are on now. I'm also a little worried about the speed to which they are going to be releasing these films.
Question will be how this will affect TOR...I really don't know but Lucas has had such a stranglehold on everything SW that he really limited what could be done with it. It's his IP...I get that....But I don't think he made the best creative decisions in the past.