A moment of silence for the passing a legendary studio...

[username_3266374]

A moment of silence for the passing a legendary studio...

http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749


Disney has shut down LucasArts for good.

 

[lordfuzzybutt]

Rather expected, but still struck me as shock, also enraged because 1313 got cancelled, goddamned Disney, at least they can license it.

A good deal of my childhood spent playing LA games, damn sad

 

[Kindo.824]

Sad, but expected. In all honesty, they have not done anything worthwhile in many years, after all.

 

[GuyNwah]

http://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-468473749


Disney has shut down LucasArts for good.

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Sad; possibly not a total loss, if Disney makes good on its "licensing" model; we would then see Star Wars games from developers Disney is willing to license to.

But a sad reminder that making computer games is a business, and a business with a damned big appetite for capital. You have to make enough money to pay off on that capital investment, or you aren't in the business anymore.

And when you pay 4 billion for a company (that's US billions, or milliards), you have to get your costs down right away. And a unit that hasn't had a hit in 5 years starts looking like a real attractive target for getting your costs down.

 

[username_3266374]

I'm hoping 1313 gets licensed, as it looks damn good. I'm also hoping the LA catalog is added to the GoG catalog soon.

 

[lordfuzzybutt]

I'm hoping 1313 gets licensed, as it looks damn good. I'm also hoping the LA catalog is added to the GoG catalog soon.

Hopefully, so that they can live on, i would surely pay for a bundle of old LA games.

 

[gregski]

So.Many.Memories.

 

[volsung]

Some of the most memorable games of the 90's (and 80's). Curiously enough, LucasArts was more widely known for these games than their Star Wars games.

 

[Aes Sídhe]

im Speechless.

 

[cmdr_silverbolt]

No worries guys, it will be revived once there's a market for this stuff again.

 

[Babli.480]

RIP
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[volsung]

No worries guys, it will be revived once there's a market for this stuff again.

Too late for LucasArts. There's Telltale, there's multiple indies like Amanita Design (Samorost, Machinarium, Botanicula) and there's Daedalic (Deponia). Plus some classics are coming back like Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse and Dreamfall: The Lost Chapters. And to top it all off, the game that started the Kickstarter revolution: Broken Age, a.k.a Double Fine's adventure game (http://www.brokenagegame.com/).

LucasArts was a great studio, but as other said, it hasn't released anything relevant in years.

EDIT: Additionally LucasArts "lost" Ron Gilbert a long time ago and Tim Schafer a few years later. I don't really expect more adventure games from LucasArts, and hope Disney can do something worthwhile with the Monkey Island franchise.

 

[Username.]

Sad, but their recent output doesn't hold up to their legendary old titles.

 

[umair2012]

Stop being so childish guys . There is not a single game , turned out to be good which suffered from development hell and either took way to long to release or development process passed from one developer to another . Licensing the IPs is not gonna solve anything but will make things worse , do you really think that they will license 1313 to devs like Obsidian or so .? NO ! . . . They are targeting companies like UBISOFT , EA or Activision .
It is such a shame to see end of such developers and 1313 which had so much potential . I thought we may finally get to play as young Han Solo but that won't happen anytime soon and on other hand lot of people lost their jobs

 

[wichat]

From my perpetual self-interest...

... Shall that facilitate to get Grim Fandango from G.O.G. (it's the game more voted)?

 

[MrMida]

Not that surprising. I had a bad feeling about this ever since Disney took over Lucas' empire.

 

[volsung]

From my perpetual self-interest...

... Shall that facilitate to get Grim Fandango from G.O.G. (it's the game more voted)?

Since allegedly Disney now owns all LucasArts IP's, and I assume they implement "big corp" practices, I'd say it might actually complicate things.

I truly hope I'm wrong.

 

[GuyNwah]

From my perpetual self-interest...

... Shall that facilitate to get Grim Fandango from G.O.G. (it's the game more voted)?

Since allegedly Disney now owns all LucasArts IP's, and I assume they implement "big corp" practices, I'd say it might actually complicate things.

I truly hope I'm wrong.

It depends on whether Disney wants to deal. Disney executives are issued mind-controlling mouse ears when they join the company and adopt a way of thinking that's not only baffling to us but even foreign to big-company practices in general. They don't rush to monetize old titles. You can see this from the way they do heavily-promoted, time-limited "Vault Disney" releases of their old animated features. They want to get the maximum yield over time from their assets, not just what they can get for them now.

I think it makes sense to get the old Lucas Arts titles back into print as soon as they can. They don't have "legs" the way Snow White or Bambi or Fantasia does, and they'll yield nothing if they're neglected for too long. But Disney does things in ways that baffle the rest of us. They may even be planning to make them into "Disney Infinity" exclusives, in which case we'll probably never see them again.

 

[FoggyFishburne]

Personally, I say good riddance. They haven't released any good games recently but instead have been resorting to milking the shit out of the Star Wars franchise by producing subpar designed games and atrociously shit storylines. I'm glad they're dead.

Maybe from the ashes a new studio can be formed by the former employees that are creatively free to do what they want.

Yes they did make Grim Fandango, one of my favourite games of all time, but I attribute that one more to Tim Schaefer. Maybe I'm being unfair there. The only games I really like from LucasArts even though they're pretty meh, are the Jedi Knight games. Specifically, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy. They're fun and brain dead games. They serve their purpose by allowing you to be a lightsaber wielding and force using bastard.

And I can't believe people were actually excited about the 1313 game. Yeah, I really can't get enough of Gears of Uncharted clones. What a shame. It's strange, people are critical of the new Thief game (which is great) but for some fucking reason 1313 gets a pass? Why?! Because it has Star Wars in the title? Ridiculous.

Good luck in your future endeavours. Hopefully your new games will be of greater quality and more creative than what you've been creating in the last 7 years...

 

[addar]

be optimistic, maybe guys from lucas art will work for CDPR now 150 jobseekers must find their new harbor