I want Obsidian to get to make another Star Wars game.

This. Only this time, actually give them the time to do it properly.

And don't go out of your way to spite them in canon when they have a much more deconstructionist take on the Force...

Given the modern gaming industry's focus on the "casual" and "console" crowd (and my remarks are meant to disparage neither) and its obsession with the monetization of games even after purchase (Breaking off chunks of the finished game to sell as Day 1 DLC, subscription models where "Free To Play" equals "Pay To Win," etc.) it seems unlikely that we'll see any CRPG the likes of Baldur's Gate or Knights of the Old Republic coming from a Triple-A publisher like EA, let alone a Star Wars CRPG of that caliber.

Lesson learned : It's not that there's no market for old-school games among gamers, it's that there's no market for " money sinks " among publishers ...

EDIT: Hell, some games get cancelled for just that reason -- the publisher's given up on the title ever turning a profit (much less for as much profit as they wanted), aren't interested in loss leaders, and presumably aren't able to get away with Hollywood accounting .

That was a golden era, huh?

For sure.

For sure.

At least I'll always have Nintendo.

I want Obsidian to get to make another Star Wars game.

This. Only this time, actually give them the time to do it properly.

What if they just released the KotOR II toolset for fans to create adventures, like with Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2? That'd make me more than happy.

What if they just released the KotOR II toolset for fans to create adventures, like with Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2? That'd make me more than happy.

That'd be neat too, but the voice acting and personification of those characters is part of what made the game so memorable for me. The really sad part is that at some point after the release, Obsidian wanted to complete the ending and make all of the cut content available as a free patch for those that already had the game, and LucasFilm said "no."

Still, Obsidian has openly stated their interest in making another Star Wars game, so maybe there's hope?

I can't help but think that EA might not stick the game with Obsidian for a number of reasons. First their very public "washing of hands", it sits well with us the gamers, not so much the right's holder and publisher. Secondly, it's common for smaller studios to work with stupid deadlines and LA/BioWare (remember this is pre EA) did stick them with a silly deadline stick the while thing was at the end of the day a product that bore the flaws of really bad management, especially from Obsidian who were still a new studio at the time and hadn't really cut their teeth. They still haven't made a major delivery that wasn't bugged to hell.

That'd be neat too, but the voice acting and personification of those characters is part of what made the game so memorable for me. The really sad part is that at some point after the release, Obsidian wanted to complete the ending and make all of the cut content available as a free patch for those that already had the game, and LucasFilm said "no."

Still, Obsidian has openly stated their interest in making another Star Wars game, so maybe there's hope?

The sad/funny thing is, GameInformer (the trade magazine of the GameStop video game retail chain) had a rather... illuminating article * on just what happened internally within LucasArts in the years before and leading right up to the Disney buyout, and just why Disney (instead of giving LucasArts the largess to be awesome and a new era to play around in) decided instead that LucasArts as an actual developer was more trouble than it was worth.

(To be fair, Free Radical had their own, earlier take on just what happened between them and LucasArts over Battlefront III , but in turn here 's a purported Battlefront: Elite Squadron dev with his own take on what happened... since his studio -- nowadays mostly known for the Sniper Elite series -- was supposed to do PS2/PSP versions of Battlefront III . Oh, and here 's the infamous video.)

TL;DR : Hopefully EA's Star Wars games will merely be microtransaction'd, Day 1 DLC, " EA'd " mediocrities instead of what happened at LucasArts.

* KOTOR3 almost got greenlit, yet somehow no one interviewed knew why it wasn't...