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 #106313  by SilentOne
 
Read this!!

Ill summarize it a little for people who don't feel like reading...

Disney has fired all star wars(LucasFilm,LucasArts, etc) staff and canceled all current projects

 #106314  by Seeker
 
You.Have.To.Be.Kidding.Me.

 #106322  by MasterM
 
does this include star wars 7?

 #106330  by Clank
 
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU what is wrong with these people

 #106331  by Sentreth
 
So I wonder if the next movie trilogy is still up for production or not...This is sad news indeed.

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Edit by Jawfin (who i think is getting tired of editing people's post because they cannot operate a carriage return)

 #106334  by Fraea
 
can anyone say... Publicity Stunt?

 #106336  by Sakito
 
I'm so done

 #106343  by BadWolf
 
And then we find out a few days later it was all a very late April Fools joke

RIP LucasArts

 #106345  by Zabuza
 
All hopes for jk4 are dashed, since lucasarts had licensed the series.

 #106355  by quickflint
 
This is pretty bad news :( but Lucas Films, Ilm, and those other parts of Lucas I never remember are still intact. Disney knows it will make money off another star wars movie and ILM is one of the best special effects companies in business right now.

My heart goes out to those who lost their jobs :( It's a rough time to be in game development and I hope they can find a new place to go.

As for their games the only one they were working on was Star Wars 1313 and there is still a chance someone might pick it back up and finish it with Disney's approval. Also Jedi Knight was a game series made by RavenSoft before Lucas shut the series down so maybe under Disney they will get to make a fourth? Depends on if they see any value in paying people to make another. Disney would own that IP now.

 #106360  by quickflint
 
Wow it's like finding golden happiness among mounds of sadness poop. This is good news though! I am not sure how much can be done with this that hasn't been done though??? I don't know much about modding.

 #106362  by Uscari
 
I honestly feel pretty unaffected on this cause there wasn't much recently done by Lucas Arts that popped out at me. The pre-quell starwars trilogy was more than a little dissapointing now looking back. And I really am satisfied with the sw universe as far as Lucas is concerned. I just hope academy servers stay and I can still play with you guys.

 #106367  by Lothar
 
Jawfin wrote:snaffled. let the hacki, i mean, learning begin. (i already had the source anyway... from the Mt Wudan website)
No you cannot introduce a mutated mutant rancor.... :-(

 #106399  by MasterM
 
Philosopher wrote:I honestly feel pretty unaffected on this cause there wasn't much recently done by Lucas Arts that popped out at me.
Sure recently they sort of tailed off, but they were one of the most creative and influential studio ever. A lot of former lucasarts guys went off and started their own companies that made more good games (telltale games is one), and they came up with the SCUMM engine I think

 #106964  by Akimoto
 
The sourceforge link is a deadend. The source code have been lost(?).

 #106973  by Key
 
I have it saved, if necessary I'll upload it.

 #106975  by Uscari
 
MasterM wrote:
Philosopher wrote:I honestly feel pretty unaffected on this cause there wasn't much recently done by Lucas Arts that popped out at me.
Sure recently they sort of tailed off, but they were one of the most creative and influential studio ever. A lot of former lucasarts guys went off and started their own companies that made more good games (telltale games is one), and they came up with the SCUMM engine I think
Unman you got a good point there MM, didn't think of it that way lol. :D

 #106977  by Zabuza
 
Working links:

http://www.gamefront.com/raven-releases ... rce-codes/

That's the power of German engineering.

 #107915  by Akimoto
 
Could someone send me the source codes? The links have been taken down on ALL the links above.

 #107917  by Key
 
Akimoto wrote:Could someone send me the source codes? The links have been taken down on ALL the links above.
I can do it later in the week, just make sure you remind me on either Wednesday or Thursday.

 #107924  by Tricky
 
i wouldn't be too concerned. it's just all current projects. i'm sure they did some analysis on the costs of everything going on, and decided there wasn't much of a future in whatever was currently in development. for instance, disney inheriting the last season of the clone wars isn't going to do much for them. why bother wasting money producing the last series of something? there are still promises for most lost content to be released in some other fashion (DVDs, comics, etc...)

most games in development aren't actually made by disney or lucas arts themselves. the rights are licensed out and existing game companies with good reputations do the work. most of those companies have other projects they are working on, and other big games under their belt, so i'm not worried about them.