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BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Mon May 18, 2015 12:03 am
by NiteRunner81
So, I am a member of a group on Facebook that is trying to re-establish the Expanded Universe as Canon. Our mission is NOT to purchase any NEW Star Wars products... to give it to Disney up the rump... There is one thing I am battling with... whether to purchase/play BattleFront or not... I may not even have to purchase my own copy for PC.. My brother (and roommate) wants a copy and told me if I did his laundry he would "front" it... The question is.. who will wind up profiting for the game. In my opinion Disney isn't gonna get ANYTHING (or only pennies) for BattleFront and the continuing of SWTOR... EA is the Producer and we all know how EA is... They keep every cent they can. Would buying/playing the game really do much to defeat the purpose of the "rebellion"?
Re: BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Mon May 18, 2015 4:12 am
by CommanderOtto
believe me... disney will make a lot of money with the new battlefront. EA may be whatever, but they have to pay disney to get access to the star wars brand.
Re: BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Tue May 19, 2015 3:37 pm
by WD-40
Unless it's Black-Market or other 'illegally' made/acquired data, Disney gets the profit. You won't hurt them one bit trying to end-run them, and those that do will likely get sued.
Re: BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Wed May 20, 2015 4:00 am
by Darth Crater
NiteRunner81 wrote:So, I am a member of a group on Facebook that is trying to re-establish the Expanded Universe as Canon. Our mission is NOT to purchase any NEW Star Wars products... to give it to Disney up the rump... There is one thing I am battling with... whether to purchase/play BattleFront or not... I may not even have to purchase my own copy for PC.. My brother (and roommate) wants a copy and told me if I did his laundry he would "front" it... The question is.. who will wind up profiting for the game. In my opinion Disney isn't gonna get ANYTHING (or only pennies) for BattleFront and the continuing of SWTOR... EA is the Producer and we all know how EA is... They keep every cent they can. Would buying/playing the game really do much to defeat the purpose of the "rebellion"?
Disney's probably getting something like 25% of the game's income in licensing fees. They paid $4 billion for Star Wars, you'd better believe they're aiming for a huge return on that.
Sorry if this is off topic, but: "Canon" has always been mainly a fan construction, right? All the old EU stuff is still there, nothing's happened to it. If you don't like the new stuff, that's fine, but I'm going to give it a chance on its own merits.
Re: BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Thu May 21, 2015 2:28 pm
by Mandalore
Old eu is [poo], sorry. Lucas horribly managed it by letting everyone use the same three main characters in a fifty year span. By far the worst is the clone wars time line. Anakin and obi would literally need to be in three places at once.
The only good series off the top of my head would be bane, commando, x wing, thrawn, med star, njo if I'm being generous.
Re: BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Thu May 21, 2015 4:26 pm
by CommanderOtto
the clone wars was awesome, what are you talking about man. If you want it to be realistic, then star wars wouldn't even have battle noise in the middle of space
Re: BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Thu May 21, 2015 7:47 pm
by [NH]Shadow
CommanderOtto wrote: If you want it to be realistic, then star wars wouldn't even have battle noise in the middle of space
Or lightsabres.
Re: BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Fri May 22, 2015 4:01 pm
by Mandalore
It was a very poor use of the assets. I'm already suspending my belief enough to believe that ten million clones can subjugate an entire galaxy.
Re: BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Wed May 27, 2015 12:55 am
by Trigger
Mandalore wrote:It was a very poor use of the assets. I'm already suspending my belief enough to believe that ten million clones can subjugate an entire galaxy.
hmm...
Re: BattleFront Profiteers
Posted:
Wed May 27, 2015 2:54 pm
by NiteRunner81
the Thrawn trilogy is one that people are most disappointed about not getting. I'm pissed that we're not gonna have Mara Jade. They could have at least everything that chronicles the time before The Phantom Menace still be canon. Which includes the KOTORS, SWTOR, Bane.