Electronic Arts currently holds the exclusive right to create games based on the Star Wars franchise. It seems that this arrangement may be ending soon, as it is rumored that Disney is approaching other developers and publishers about taking over the Star Wars license.

 reports Disney has approached companies like Activision and Ubisoft with the prospect of taking over the Star Wars video game license. Thiওs would𝕴 mean the end of Electronic Arts deal with the company, which still has five years left until it expires.

Electronic Arts partnered up with Disney in 2013 in order to obtain the exclusive right to create Star Wars games, with the deal set to expire in 2023. Disney is likely using the debacle over Star Wars: Battlefront II as a reason for killing the deal early. This isn't too much of a jump, considering the fact that Star Wars: Battlefront II was easily the most controversial game of 2017.

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Star Wars Battlefront II came under fire when it was discovered that the loot crates offered players a distinct advantage over those who didn't spend real money on purchasing them. Buying the loot crates also hastened the process of unlocking the well-known hero characters (like Darth Vader) which could take days of real-time for regular players to unlock. This led to a backlash by the gaming press, which filtered its way to the major🀅 news networks. This resulted in representatives from several governments across the world finally taking a look at the business of microtransactions and the advertising of gambling to children.

The fact that a Star Wars game was being connected to such controversial practices in headlines across the world likely incensed the people at Disney, especially as a brand new Star Wars movie was just about to come out. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars has always maintain🔴ed a family friendly image, so a triple-A game that was linking the franchise to gambling was the last thing Disney wanted to see.

There was also controversy surrounding the first Star Wars: Battlefront game that was developed by EA, over the lack of content (mainly single-player modes) upon release. It seems that Disney has lost faith in Electronic Arts' ability to create a Star Wars video game without causing controve😼rsy or ma𒁃king themselves look incredibly greedy and dishonest.

We can only hope that the next publisher given the chance to make a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars game will be able to do so without dragging the name of the franchise in the mud. The Ewoks and Jar Jar Binks might have been annoying, but at least they never tried to get children addicted to gamblinꦬg.

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