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I think the only EA Star Wars games that weren't well received are the Battlefront games. The first one was super barebones and clearly put out as fast as they could and the second one was so disastrous with it's microtransactions that it seems like Disney has put a "no DLC" policy in place since neither Fallen Order or Squadrons have any. Also it got governments talking about stepping in with regards to lootboxes. Not that there are any other EA Star Wars games, I think. EA seems to have had trouble putting out Star Wars games, they signed a 10 year exclusivity deal in 2013 and they've barely put anything out.
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Much like the movie industry the game industry has kinda suffered from a shrinking of the "middle" range- games that aren't AAA but can't be done on an indie budget either. Though a supers RPG could probably find an audience, it'd have to be on the smaller scale.
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I mean it's no paid dlc. Free stuff is fine, as evidenced bt Squadrons getting a bwing tie defender dlc
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The biggest complaint with EA’s Star Wars games is all of the non-EA games that got canceled when Disney bought the rights, dissolved LucasArts, and gave EA exclusivity.
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Disney should hire all the former factor 5 guys and give me rogue squadron 3
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Edge & Christian posted:TakeTwo still has the trademark for "Freedom Force" and as long as they don't use "superhero" in the advertising and the characters look like rip-offs/homages instead of confusingly similar characters, Marvel/DC wouldn't have any grounds for a lawsuit. It's because the production costs on AAA games have skyrocketed since the '90s. The problem with the "HD era" is that games take longer to produce, require more man-hours of effort, and involve much bigger teams. The average AAA game has a budget roughly equivalent to a Hollywood summer blockbuster, which means companies go well out of their way to remove any financial risk whatsoever from the final product. It's why most of them are either parts of a franchise, an attempt to start a franchise, a revival of an old franchise, or star some of history's most marketable known quantities. Nobody wants to be the rear end in a top hat responsible for a project that failed by not succeeding hard enough. With Freedom Force in particular, it's a bunch of brand-X superheroes in a niche genre (real-time strategy is kinda dead unless you're the guys who make Total War), but more importantly, it was an Irrational Games joint. The guy who used to run Irrational, Ken Levine, is a notorious perfectionist and games with his name on them tend to have very long development cycles. He and Irrational were also kinda stuck in the BioShock mines from around 2005 to 2013 (and they didn't even make BioShock 2), and making BioShock Infinite reportedly almost killed him. Irrational rebranded to Ghost Story in 2017, which is a much smaller studio. I don't doubt that if Levine had his way he'd have made at least one more Freedom Force by now, but there's no way Take-Two would sign off on that and it'd have taken Levine six years and three entirely separate reworks of the game's systems, art style, and character design. Edge & Christian posted:The other thing I'm only thinking about right now -- and this is not founded in any facts and may be a borderline conspiracy theory -- but I wonder if this is part of why both Marvel and DC have gone so multiverse-crazy over the past decade or two: when Freedom Force came out there were probably maybe a dozen different distinct and enforceable "Spider-Man" looks that you could say look too much like Marvel's Spider-Man so as to cause marketplace confusion. I always figured that was a natural consequence of modern writers not wanting to get Jack Kirby'd. It's gotta suck if the character or idea you threw out on a whim a few years ago for rent money ends up being the basis of a billion-dollar blockbuster, where your share amounts to your name in the credits under Special Thanks if you're lucky.
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The French translator for DC Comics is putting their own anti-feminist ideals in translations. https://twitter.com/adragoninspace/status/1335476253218967552?s=20 https://twitter.com/Guillaume_HPS/status/1335520582444658688?s=20
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A quick and dirty translation if you'd like one:quote:Hello Urban Comics, I was reading Batman Rebirth vol. 7 when I was suddenly taken out of the story by this horrible translation, which is totally contrary to Batgirl's character and the original text. What happened? The second one is a little more context dependent. quote:Sort of in the same genre, I was very surprised by this translation choice in the excellent Prez, also published by Urban.
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That sucks!
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https://twitter.com/ComicsJacks/status/1341516353832939520
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wanted to see Meyer get annihilated but oh well, cgate more or less completely shat itself and died last year and are totally irrelevant now anyways
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Never had a chance against the forces of Waid and Zaid
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Codependent Poster posted:Never had a chance against the forces of Waid and Zaid It's so weird that his lawyer was the guy who mostly represents government whistle blowers.
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Skwirl posted:It's so weird that his lawyer was the guy who mostly represents government whistle blowers. What isn't Waid telling us?
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Lol https://twitter.com/mephistofish/status/1341549087385137152?s=20
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Not. Even. An. Apology.
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So Waid's lawyer is saying the case was dismissed "with prejudice." https://twitter.com/MarkSZaidEsq/status/1341547408724013056?s=20
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comicsgate's been going on for 3 years and all they have to show for it are a bunch of crowdfunding campaigns that were supposed to fuel a cottage industry but I don't know if they actually are?
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BoosterDuck posted:comicsgate's been going on for 3 years and all they have to show for it are a bunch of crowdfunding campaigns that were supposed to fuel a cottage industry but I don't know if they actually are? Depends on if you consider "maybe two guys' mortgages" a cottage industry.
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Kurui Reiten posted:Depends on if you consider "maybe two guys' mortgages" a cottage industry. It's at least a two cottages industry then
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Aaronicon posted:It's at least a two cottages industry then 
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Have any of the crowd funded books aside from Cyberfrog actually been released? I guess Richard Meyer's book came out, giving him cover to drop the lawsuit without admitting it was because he was almost certainly gonna lose, but was that a kick starter or did he just find a different publisher?
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That one really racist pencil scratch comic book got kickstarted for two issues. I believe it was called Iron Sights, but I have no interest in looking it up to check.
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JordanKai posted:That one really racist pencil scratch comic book got kickstarted for two issues. I believe it was called Iron Sights, but I have no interest in looking it up to check. Did people get their books?
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ComicsGate - like Gamergate - was a spiteful grift from the get-go, but the difference is these comics guys couldn’t get beyond a couple gofundmes.
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Skwirl posted:Have any of the crowd funded books aside from Cyberfrog actually been released? I guess Richard Meyer's book came out, giving him cover to drop the lawsuit without admitting it was because he was almost certainly gonna lose, but was that a kick starter or did he just find a different publisher? I believe a few have. Amusingly since EVS and Dickie hogged most of the attention for themselves and certainly didn't promote their fellow 'creators' a lot of them only barely funded and one can't imagine these people are on the whole good at managing their funds.
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Yeah there’s been some CG comics that have come out (I think there’s even a publisher that’s pro-CG? Alterna Comics or Arctic PressI think?). They don’t make waves because surprise, people who’s ideal comic is “90’s xtreme but with racism/sexism” isn’t popular
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Alterna isn't explicitly a comicsgate label, they just publish anything, so a lot of CG people were drawn there. Not much of a distinction, and it boils down to it being bad because of greed and apathy over actually holding lovely views themselves.
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funniest comicsgate story was the breitweisers getting $200k for red rooster then turning around and reselling copies at Walmart for $5 before backers got their books
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https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1341866035964686336?s=20 It's the ultimate grift for Ethan, Dicky, that Cecil Guy and that's pretty much it. It nuked that guy Andrew Huerta's career and Van Nazi always has to find a new enemy, so he nukes his friends on the regular. The latest target is that guy Donal, who whined when DC wouldn't buy his terrible Lobo pitch so he made it into a two year late book that still has yet to ship, who Ethan is throwing under the bus now.
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did tennapel's book ship
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I think someone did High School Art Class grade work for a Vampirella cover. Is that a success??
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FilthyImp posted:I think someone did High School Art Class grade work for a Vampirella cover. Is that a success?? Yeah, Fandom Menace mouthpiece That Star Wars Girl raised 50K for it so... sort of. ('One of the internet's most adored pop-culture advocates.' Good lord, Dynamite.)
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I've heard one of the Vtubers pulled like 50K in a stream, so that's wrong.
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https://twitter.com/seankmckeever/status/1344155480982171649 The reviewer is currently sitting in the replies grifting like a mother fucker.
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For all the good it will do I went through and reported any of the shill tweet I saw as spam.
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