Lucasarts Closing Down

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Gambit37
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Lucasarts Closing Down

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A sad day indeed :-(

Even though I'd not played many of their games, I know the legacy of awesome games they leave behind. I hope those losing their jobs can find work elsewhere in the industry:

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/arch ... sarts.aspx
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I love their Monkey Island series very much .
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Sad. Monkey Island was great, and I really loved Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I don't know if this makes a sequel more or less likely.
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Tie fighter was Llucasarts too, wasn't it?
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Only published by them, Tie Fighter and X-Wing were developed by Totally Games.
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The reasons behind this were purely money.. Disney suits decided it's easier to make some other company pay them to be allowed to make a starwars game or other sequel. This way there is no money out of their pocket at all.. forget the hundreds of people now out of a job.. and they went ahead and laid off people at ILM and Disney as well to make sure a lot more people are milling around saying.. how will I pay my rent? Really unpleasant..
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Perhaps some enterprising fellow in China can do the work
more 'efficiently'.
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at half the cost? for sure ;)
from your old mate
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