I mean if Lucasfilm Games (terrible name BTW, go back to LucasGames or LucasArts) wants to make a Star Wars RPG outside of EA with what’s left of Bioware, they don’t have a lot of options other than reaching out to Microsoft considering the RPG pedigree now.
How are they going to reach out to? Spiders? PirannahaBytes? Other Eurojank RPG developer that i’m not talking shit about because I love Eurojank games, but if you’re Disney you don’t have a lot of options now that don’t put Microsoft in play?
I trust that whoever will run Lucasfilm gaming initiatives in the future won’t have such obvious… preferences for who they work with compared to Marvel Games
I still think it had something to do with the film/character rights. Spidey spins a TANGLED of who owns what character. I mean Sony is still making SIGH Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters with Morbius, Venom 2, Carnage, Kraven… God just make it stop.
It’s the reason why Spidey-3 is rumored to YEET him out of the MCU with Spider-Verse style hijinks so the stink of the Sony Marvel movies doesn’t stink into the MCU.
Do you really want Woody Harrelson Carnage or Jared Leto Morbious hanging with Doctor Strange in the MCU? Yeah, didn’t think so.
Given Phil Spencer is doubling down on what made Xbox huge by getting tons of RPG and FPS exclusives I wonder if we’ll get a Xbox Star Wars exclusive. OG Xbox has a good number of Exclusive Star Wars games.