Conform site-ului Game Informer cei de la Disney au luat o decizie foarte "inteleapta", au hotarat sa inchida LucasArts, prin urmare cele doua jocuri la care se lucra, Star Wars 1313 si Star Wars: First Assault au fost anulate. Pe langa aceste anulari cei de la Disney au concediat si aproximativ 150 de persoane din cadrul aceleiasi companii, cel mai probabil oamenii care se ocupau de jocurile mentionate un pic mai devreme. Pentru mine este o stire foarte proasta, dar astept si parerile voastre, dar mai ales parerile fanilor Star Wars.
Aveti mai jos o parte din comunicatul emis de Disney:
“After evaluating our position in the games market, we’ve decided to shift LucasArts from an internal development to a licensing model, minimizing the company’s risk while achieving a broader portfolio of quality Star Wars games. As a result of this change, we’ve had layoffs across the organization. We are incredibly appreciative and proud of the talented teams who have been developing our new titles.”
Update: in timp ce scriam stirea a venit un comunicat si din partea unui reprezentativ Lucas:
"All of these things happened at once. Naturally, as any company that goes through a big announcement like this, you have to look through your whole portfolio and realign some things. 1313 was looking fantastic, the reception has been great. Our other unannounced titles are fine, it just got to a point where from a business standpoint we couldn't continue developing those internally and keep up with the direction that the company was going."
It is worth noting that we are looking for proven external partners who can help us provide video games to our fans. We still believe in the video game industry, we still will provide Star Wars games, we're just looking at different models rather than internal production... They're evaluating everything. There's always a possibility that it [Star Wars 1313] can still come out via licensing.
It's super sad. It's a terrible day. I want to make sure everyone realizes that there still will be Star Wars games out there."
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