How LucasArts Fell Apart. (article)

[HipHopStan]

http://kotaku.com/how-lucasarts-fell-apart-1401731043

Big article but good read. Yeah, they weren't doing much of note at the time, but it's the way it died that hurts the most. I mean the stuff they were working on sounded interesting (1313). But the fact that Lucas kept changing it and the horrible management which kept them from making great games. Projects would get cancelled when they were practically done because they wouldn't make any money. That's when you knew that it was over.



EDIT - It should also be of note that in the comments section, some of the LucasArts developers replied and told their personal horror stories. A bunch of people apparently would get laid off after telling Lucas "No."

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

i just want a Jedi Academy sequel.
that game was so much fun.

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

Good read.

 

[Liu Kang]

Full Throttle was one of my first games

 

[Grifter]

tried to get back into SWTOR since it went free, these EA fukkers make you either pay or quit.

 

[Mowgli]

He must have been employing his friends in uppermanagement because anything with star wars attached to it, is money. Theres no way you can fukk that up. I mean they just dropped a Fire Angry Birds Star Wars game. fakkits probably thought they had to keep a cheesy series like star wars pure by only releasing real serious titles. Pathetic. No reason a new hot game shouldnt have been dropping every couple years. o well. Disney will show them how to do it.

 

[HipHopStan]

Full Throttle was one of my first games

Monkey Island