EA and Disney in a multi-year agreement for Star Wars games

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I agree, DICE being in development of a Star Wars game does feel like a battlefront to me....lets hope they don't catch BF3 contagious "mess every development company up" disease
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ggctuk wrote:
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ggctuk wrote:
Jendo7 wrote:Looks as though Dice are indeed doing Battlefront 3. KM Troedsson @L_Twin: "Speculations re our DICE LA studio. It's definitely a development studio, not only to "help with recruiting talent". "New Star Wars Games Might Bring Back Old Series"
Well, nice knowing you, DICE.
What do you mean? This sounds like a good thing. :angel:
Every developer that has touched Battlefront 3 has turned to Diet Dr. Pepper. Free Radical went into administration. Rebellion churned out the least-liked game in the entire series, Elite Squadron (word is, they tried to create an actual SWBFIII but somehow failed to do so), and LucasArts got shut down. I do hope DICE has better luck, honest-to-God, I do, because it WOULD be awesome to see SWBFIII on Frostbite, so long as they got SP right (I'm thinking of BF3's somewhat underwhelming campaign - I know they can do better, just look at Bad Company 2).
Oh yeah forgot that battlefront 3 is cursed :runaway:
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There's no way Dice will go under, Battlefield 4 will see to that... the only thing to stop Battlefront 3 now is if we get hit by a meteorite. Oops, now I've done it!
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This so reminds me of the trainwreck Starsiege Tribes turned into.

Everyone was screaming and begging for a faithfull update to the engine but everyone that tried, tragicly destroyed it, piece by piece till you have the Tribes of today which is a generic free to play class based shooter.

Their community still exists... in the form of 20 guys playing the same 5 maps for decades.

Awesome squad based fps (Better than SWBF in every way except for the graphics), flushed by being sold and changing hands so many times.
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That may not apply here. DICE is very capable of producing a good Battlefront game.
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Looks like our star wars games will not have online passes...Thank goodness. Reading into this, doesn't directly co-insight with Ea having the rights to make star wars but this decision affects it in a way that will impact future titles inlcuding star wars games.

http://kotaku.com/ea-getting-rid-of-onl ... -507021364

John Reseburg-
“Yes, we’re discontinuing Online Pass. None of our new EA titles will include that feature.”


I freaken hated online passes. :wink: Very smart move EA. If they can just get rid of those yucky microtransactions (Or reasonabley model it diffrently) then I will be a happy camper.
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Stupid question but what is an online pass :oops:
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This.

The first result BTW.
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Noobasaurus wrote:This.

The first result BTW.
Wow that thing was pretty cool. :wink: Anyway just reading the first paragraph made online passes sound bad. I'm really glad they aren't being used :)
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Cleb wrote:
Noobasaurus wrote:This.

The first result BTW.
Wow that thing was pretty cool. :wink: Anyway just reading the first paragraph made online passes sound bad. I'm really glad they aren't being used :)
It was a pretty nastey operation. More of a restriction I would think than a feature, didn't do all that much for online(Except enable it), was bascially free money for them.
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Guys EA just said today they will be no longer using online passes, I'm too lazy to post the article up here but go check it out
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You're also too lazy to look five posts above yours :P
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Twilight_Warrior wrote:You're also too lazy to look five posts above yours :P
.......I need to stop being so lazy :funny2:
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Something I wish they could also do is release BF1 and BF2 on PSN/Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace and also bring back online gameplay.
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It would also be neat if they included jabbas palace for BF1, and the expansion pack for the original Xbox from battlefront 2 , for the arcade version
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