Hats Off: Lucasarts is gone
high dynamic range
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/04/03/disney-closes-lucasarts/
In Christ's name, I hope those laid-off land on their feet decently.
Hopefully, they're re-forming a new studio, but First Assault and 1313 canceled? Wonder what the plan is.
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In Christ's name, I hope those laid-off land on their feet decently.
Hopefully, they're re-forming a new studio, but First Assault and 1313 canceled? Wonder what the plan is.
#we'restillalivesoit'scool
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I'll never get another X-Wing game now.
This doesn't surprise me at all.
who says you wont? If anything, you'll probably get a quality game now since Disney is only closing LucasArts as a developer, but still plans on licensing out it's properties to other studios.
1313 definitely looked like it could have taken off.
anyone that is a fan of the ips should be super happy. Now there will be a greater chance that games like the old click and point games may be made.
Good luck to everyone.
On that note, allow me to offer some hope. Ready at Dawn is hiring.
E-mail
marc@readyatdawn.com to apply.
http://www.readyatdawn.com/
http://www.bungie.net/en-us/AboutUs#!page=careers
In all seriousness though, best of luck to everyone affected.
That's all Disney is, a collection of IP's. They never create anything, they just buy everyone else out and exploit the public domain. They are the very definition of rent-seekers.
343 Industries is looking for a few good men and women.
http://www.microsoft-careers.com/go/343-Industries/190537/
Do they think suddenly someone else is going to take the risk? Do they somehow think they can minimize risk? Are they going to homogenize things and have a smaller development base and then somehow they think thats minimizing risk?
How are these people so retarded how do they get to run companies.
right in the childhood.
I hope everyone lands on their feet, even the folks from LucasFilm and Clone Wars.
Revenue Increase US$ 42.278 billion (2012)
Operating income Increase US$ 9.260 billion (2012)
Net income Increase US$ 5.682 billion (2012)
Total assets Increase US$ 74.898 billion (2012)
Total equity Increase US$ 39.759 billion (2012)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company
if anything, they should be opening more studios with the money they have piled up.
No. All that extra money needs to be going into the theme parks. Like why is there still no monorail to Hollywood Studios or Animal Kingdom?
Sniff.
Best of luck all.
but... that's what they said they were going to do...
They don't care how many lives they've displaced, or how many countless hours of hard work and dreams they've flushed down the crapper. It's just business to them, people and dreams are assets and liabilities.
Good luck to those affected, I know PC is a great place to find work and land on your feet again.
Why have expensive satellite studios when you can bring development in house?
From what everyone says, 1313 was already shelved. *shrugs*
Terrible news - i grew up with these games