Lucasarts Closing Down

[Gambit37]

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

[Magica]

I love their Monkey Island series very much .

[oh_brother]

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.

[beowuuf]

Tie fighter was Llucasarts too, wasn't it?

[Gambit37]

Only published by them, Tie Fighter and X-Wing were developed by Totally Games.

[cowsmanaut]

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..

[Paul Stevens]

Perhaps some enterprising fellow in China can do the work
more 'efficiently'.

[chiefy]

at half the cost? for sure