It tells you that deep down they know the worth of the IPs even if they won't admit to it. If Disney had any sense, with Star Wars they would allow people to make their own entire fan projects and act as a publisher like Valve. Simply take a cut of the action and allow people to upload whatever they like whether that's movies or games or even a television series.
They would make so much fucking money but because these IPs have been taken over by ideologues they won't ever hand it over to fans because that would mean admitting they've lost.
Like Star Wars before hand? There was an application system to get into that. People who couldn't get in made their own series. Check out Steven Kent's Clone Series.
I'm also pretty sure this was a big part of how Star Wars got to be as big as it did. Anyone being able to license a book or game, meant there was plenty of content and natural selection meant only the best stuff succeeded. Disney giving EA an exclusivity deal was one of the early signs that they had no idea what the fuck they were doing.
The problem wasn't EA getting the rights, but rather EA getting the rights exclusively. They wound up missing out on potential money from other companies and EA actually brought a lot of negative attention, when they pulled that micro-transaction BS with Battlefront 2.
It tells you that deep down they know the worth of the IPs even if they won't admit to it. If Disney had any sense, with Star Wars they would allow people to make their own entire fan projects and act as a publisher like Valve. Simply take a cut of the action and allow people to upload whatever they like whether that's movies or games or even a television series.
They would make so much fucking money but because these IPs have been taken over by ideologues they won't ever hand it over to fans because that would mean admitting they've lost.
Like Star Wars before hand? There was an application system to get into that. People who couldn't get in made their own series. Check out Steven Kent's Clone Series.
I'm also pretty sure this was a big part of how Star Wars got to be as big as it did. Anyone being able to license a book or game, meant there was plenty of content and natural selection meant only the best stuff succeeded. Disney giving EA an exclusivity deal was one of the early signs that they had no idea what the fuck they were doing.
Big company gets big company to make big game. The logic should be sound but it's not.
The problem wasn't EA getting the rights, but rather EA getting the rights exclusively. They wound up missing out on potential money from other companies and EA actually brought a lot of negative attention, when they pulled that micro-transaction BS with Battlefront 2.