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The only reason most of my guilds people....the ones actually willing to come back, are going to do so, is to RP. No ops, warzones, etc. Just travel and RP. No subscriptions either. Most don't think the game is worth $15. I would RP, and do when I actually do play. However I also consider the game to be lacking in accommodating it. The complications to getting people into personal ships, no housing, no guild housing, and the list can go on and on.

The down side is that the live action TV show is now going to be "The Suite Life of Jar Jar Binks."

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If it means Scarlett Johansson has to get into the Leia slave girl outfit and perform kung-fu, I'm totally for it.

Actually Lucas' share of Disney is rather small overall, and the Mouse House will be buying back most of the stock issued over time. So it isn't a long-term thing. But when people ask if we are going to see Disney-Lucas produce films like The Avengers or Mars Needs Moms, you need only look to Kennedy's work. E.T., Back to the Future, Schindler's List, War Horse, War of the Worlds, etc. The woman works with THE best, from production to cast. She'll have people wanting to do these films, brand name talent wanting to star in them. Lucas had 50 of 100 scripts done for the live-action TV series. His issue was budgets for FX. Still pricey, but with Disney doing S.H.I.E.L.D. and scripts for Star Wars already in-place, along with owning ILM? They have the money, people, and want to do this. But again, my focus personally is on how they look over the rest of the company. The merchandise and games divisions. Disney can do merchandise better than Lucasfilm was. And I expect they'll look over LucasArts to figure out why it isn't doing more and obvious things. At some point, on some level, this game is going to be looked at. And if EA working with Lucas/Lucasfilm was effectively getting one man to say yes, and working with his staff, that isn't the case now. There isn't any hiding out in some obscure corner of the Lucasfilm world now. Disney is too big, too all-seeing.

Kennedy's resume is frankly among the most accomplished in the industry. She is a true power producer, taught by the best, and having produced many household movie titles. Look her up on IMDB, it is really staggering how much she has done. Disney will expect product to come out of the deal. That means movies. Likely it means CGI movies also and separate from the live-action films. It means the live action TV series likely happens. It means they'll revamp and expand the merchandise extensively. I wouldn't be shocked if they re-themed an entire resort hotel in the Star Wars mold.....which would be cool. I expect they'll also come after the games division and expect more and better things. They've not do much with Marvel so far, but it is early. I think that in recent years, the Lucasfilm machine, outside of ILM had gotten sluggish. Lucas couldn't be in all places, those working for him weren't being pushed as firmly as they could have been with a larger mother company overseeing things. Sure, Disney can and has a fine record of keeping many divisions running on their own, yet still does so with their eyes on the bottom line and with control when needed. Disney is, very simply, better as a BUSINESS than LucasFilm and LucasArts was/is. Tuning up the management isn't the same as messing with the show runners and producers. They can muck with the business plenty without impacting the creatives, and they will.

In due course, Disney will look over LucasArts and that means this game. They leave no stone unturned with regard to merchandise and such, so I doubt they'll look to have this game either failing epically, nor making EA tons of money. Either way, someday soon, a big mouse is going to arrive at EA asking "where's my da* money?" I look forward to that moment. However I ponder the fate of the SWGemu project, fan films, even amature Droid makers, now that Uncle George isn't going to be able to protect them. How hardcore will Disney be towards them? Will they be able to walk the line and keep the open vibe going?

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I hope so. I hope the retcon the EU like Joan Rivers' face. There are a number of book cycles I like, but the Vong series was Bantha Pudo. Not even Bantha Pudo, but the greese that oozes from the stuff stuck to the bottom of your shoe after stepping in it.

Disney would have all the power and rights Lucas had. If Lucas had a clause to terminate EA's operation of the game, Disney would also have it. Disney does everything under the sun, but also lets the divisions handle their own things. Marvel is handling Marvel Heros. LucasArts would likely handle SWTOR as it does now, or bring it home to run internally. Yet there will almost certainly be more focus on cross-marketing that couldn't exist before. Right now, LucasFilm and LucasArts don't exactly seem as smooth an integrated marketing operation as I would expect us to see in the future.

An Indiana Jones MMORPG.........themed anyway. Supernatural, aliens, nazis, romance.......as long as it is hetro , that could be interesting. Could they leverage LucasArts as the non-Disney branded games engine? Would seem logical. Their existing games branding focuses on Disney Channel. They bought Marvel looking to amp-up the appeal to tweener boys and obviously the elder Geek crowd. They are already looking at Marvel Heros, now they have this game over with EA. Disney seems able and willing to drive several brands. ABC, Disney, Pixar, ESPN, Marvel, Muppets, now LucasFilm/Arts.

This news broke after the EA quarterly call, which had only two mentions of SWTOR. The first was in the prepared statement where they lumped it into "digital revenue" including subscriptions, advertising, and F2P. Zero mention of subscriber numbers, etc. Only one question was presented by a research group, and that was on the progress of F2P. That was answered simply by saying it was coming in November, and more details on how it went will come in future calls. And as far as Wall Street would have been concerned before the call, SWTOR as a subscription game is dead, and it is entirely about gross revenue from the title. We'll never know how low it went now, and really it is beyond the point. Now that this news is blasting into the open, I wish we could see that call repeated. I would be curious what they would say to the Disney take-over of the IP. With Disney openly stating it plans to use Star Wars as a profit machine, no property would be left untouched. We've seen SWTOR basically go into hiding most of this past year, amazingly. I am curious if Disney will want a bigger involvement in convention and event promotion. The way Disney does real-world promotion......wow. Time to research their gaming operations.

Something that I remembered just now, is that the studio runner that was on watching for John Carter and The Avengers, stepped down. The co-chair of Lucasfilm and exec. producer of the new SW movies is, per USA Today, Kathleen Kennedy. She'll also be the studio president. She did Schindler's List and War Horse. Not low rent movies. Might we see Steven Speilberg helm a Star Wars film, with Lucas firmly NOT directing again? The woman knows quality film. Disney has built chops as a legit place for quality talent to helm major budget films of non-traditional IPs. Heck, having Lucasfilm reunited with Pixar, which it spawned, seems.....right. The relationship between Lucas and Disney has been warm and close for a long time. They aren't inexperienced in dealing with the IP. Of coruse, this all comes back to SWTOR. Can we hope Disney asserts more influence over the game? Buy-out or otherwise take the game from EA? Love to see that happen. Of course, revenge a Jedi craves not.

We may start a fourth guild named "Disney Princess'" on the Imperial side, and committ to the utter domination of SWTOR.

I can see Bill Nighy as a Sith Lord though. I mean: Rufus Scrimgeour, Victor, Davy Jones, that dude from Love Actually. Hardcore people. It is all about who they hire to run the movies. We cite the Marvel group, but lets remember that set of producers are from what Marvel itself put together. They were doing just fine before Disney, and have been given more cash and the means to push harder. The results are good so far. Now John Carter, there we have a cautionary example of lots of money not being enough to save an obscure title poorly done. As for the games? I simply can't expect the Disney machine will fail to visit this little outpost sooner rather than later. And I so very much hope they hammer EA and either dictate they do better, or buy out the game and do it themselves.

Fair enough. I personally didn't like KOTOR II's story, and dislike the cop-out "the Jedi are nearly wiped out" idea. It is like the Yackoziwoosozki....whatever the ALIENS like creatures are in the post ROTJ books. That was an over-the-top creative cop-out in my view, unworthy of the franchise. I wouldn't mind if they retconned everything after the Heir to the Empire out of existence.

Seriously, we are 12 pages into the thread and this was the first any of us thought of this? We are getting slow people, slow I tell you. Really I don't care, put Greg Clarke in it, and I'll watch it. How about a droid named Coulson?

Maybe the game's story simply wasn't that good? Not saying it was, not saying it wasn't, but one can't assume the story was as well received as the first, nor unworthy of being Retconn'd like Joan Rivers' face.

Disney has the money to afford better writers, though I don't share the hate of his writing. I mean, it is Disney. A company that can summon entire TV production staffs, writers, and legions of sappy sweet kids with the snap of fingers. The company that owns the mega dominant sports franchise on earth, ESPN. The company that owns ABC, a dozen odd cable networks, radio networks, Marvel, the Muppets, and just that which we call Disney. If Universal is doing Hogwarts, how long until there is a Coruscant at Hollywood Studios? Can it be long until there is a Rex's diner in Disneyland? Star Tours Cruises? Bring it on. Yeah, many will groan, we are familiar with that here. But Disney is a company with exquisit attention to detail, high end production quality, etc. John Carter.......yeah, I'm with you, botched that one they did. But damn they didn't spare the cash doing it. That was too obscure a property I think. Now if only they'd do the DUNE movies and an MMORPG.

Speaking generally though, there is more than the movies or Clone Wars. We know Lucas had scripted out 50 of the projected 100 episodes of the Star Wars TV series. He didn't know where to find the money to produce the series expected to cost millions each. Disney owns ABC and all of their various TV networks. Disney has the money to make this happen. And Disney is already producing the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series based of The Avengers and related appearances of AGENT COULSON! Plus, Disney is a company with.....what I'll simply call "orbs." If there is a mega company that can boss around and strike fear into Electronic Arts, it is Disney. If there is justice in the life, they will buy-out EA, take this game over, and do something with it. They own the darned thing effectively. Or maybe EA gets bought-out and dismantled by Disney, either is fine with me.

The Avengers 2: Tony Stark hears a voice. It whispers "Tony.....Tony......you will go to the Dagobah System. There you learn from Fury, the SHIELD director who instructed me." Stark awakes to see a ghostly image of Agent Coulson. Now all we need is to splice Coulson telling Loki "If you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

Curious how different groups actually like some things which are not vital or secondary to others. They still need to improve the guild systems in this game, which we've known since beta. We'll see what they say about subscriptions during the earnings call this week.