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KOTOR Remake feared cancelled after Sony quietly pulls tweets and videos

www.rockpapershotgun.com KOTOR Remake feared cancelled after Sony quietly pulls tweets and videos

Worrying signs on the horizon for fans of sci-fi stories told a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Sony have quiet…

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A damn shame. KOTOR 1 & 2 are still, IMHO, one of the greatest Star Wars stories/experiences. I'd really love for something to revisit the time period.
- Not a shame, imo. Any remake would ruin it by changing things, I'm glad this has happened as you are right that the games are the best star wars stories. They're also my favourite games in general, especially TSL.
  
  I have no idea why you think that, it'd make it much better. The environments, the characters, the cutscenes will all be much better in a remake.
  
  Even if the remake was worse in every way, why would it matter when you can still buy and play the originals without any issue? The KOTOR games are some of my favorite video games so I can understand not liking a remaking that (hypothetically) changes some things, but I don't know why it'd be a positive to not get a new version of it that might have gotten more people interested in the originals.
We knew this was happening a long time ago though. This is probably just Sony making it "official" in an unofficial way. This project has been dead for ages since the dev team was pulled off it long ago.
- It was given to another team, but obviously radio silence ever since.
  
  Part of me is wondering if the success of Baldur's Gate has impacted the approach to it at all, given it falls roughly in the same genre space.
  
  Embracer's financials probably impacting it more, though.
  
  It was definitely an EA call. They've been talking about kotor 3 for years internally. The devs want it, but you gotta keep up that stock price...:⁠-⁠\
Sony clarified that this is because of them losing the license rights to the music in the trailer.

https://insider-gaming.com/kotor-remake-trailer-sony/
Honestly i just play the originals. I don't need a remake
- If you've played it before that's doable. Someone who has never played it will have a bad time. It's seriously outdated.
  
  The combat is clunky but let's be real, does anyone play it for the combat?
- I do. The originals were locked behind an anti-consumer EULA once Disney got ahold of them. Since I won't agree to their EULA, I was holding out hope for the remake.
  
  I'm not sure if id trust the remake to have a more reasonable EULA tbh, and frankly with the originals if you want to play and don't like the EULA i'd say pirate it, KOTOR is 20 years old now at this point.
  
  What was special about the eula?
Please no 😭
As a person that worked at BioWare for 10 years. This is my theory. They just laid off 50 people src: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23843096/bioware-layoffs-dragon-age-dreadwolf-mass-effect Based on my current knowledge, Dragon Age and Mass Effect are still on; however, kotor 3 was pretty early. Some people suggested the 50 people were from swtor, however, BioWare Austin was sold to another publisher Broadsword: https://forums.swtor.com/topic/929816-an-update-on-the-development-of-swtor/

When i was at EA, support orgs were moved to internal EA and only the game team was specic to the studio. 50 people does not equal support, 50 people is a new project.

I theorized they cancelled kotor 3 then laid off a bunch of people, then transferred a bunch of people to mass effect and dragon age. I've been through 2 layoffs with EA and this is exactly what they do. It's a shame because it was a long held passion project for a lot of the devs.

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