EA og Lucasfilm satt stopper for fanskapt nyversjon av Star Wars Battlefront 3 – Gamer.no

scant two months ago we wrote about Galaxy in Turmoil, one fanskapt remastered version of Star Wars Battlefront 3 which had secured support from Valve and a release on Steam.

Due to the use of the Star Wars name was the game’s future, however, very uncertain, and it will hardly come as a big surprise that Lucasfilm and EA has put a stop to the project.

EA said no

Front Wire were not allowed to use any Star Wars-related content in their game. Photo: Front Wire Studios

in an update on its website writes games manager and President of Front Wire Studios, Tony Romanelli, that Lucasfilm contacted on June 22 and asked him to quit the project. Instead of giving up once asked Romanelli a meeting with Lucasfilm, in hopes that the parties could find a solution to the problem.

The meeting was set up, but given that it’s EA that owns the rights to create Star Wars game was no Lucasfilm could do:

– Lucasfilm told me that although they were open to enter into a license agreement had no opportunity to do so because of their contract with Electronic Arts. I was told that Lucasfilm had talked with EA about Galaxy in Turmoil and that EA is not required that our project was to continue, says Romanelli.

Yugioh should also have proposed to hide Galaxy in Turmoil behind a paywall in EA Battlefront games, but not this idea was approved. According Romanelli EA shall have been concerned that Front Wire-game would take attention away from their own Star Wars series.

Continuing without Star Wars

Neither tie Fighters, X-Wings or aT-ST Walkers are seeing in Galaxy in Turmoil. Photo: Front Wire Studios

Although Front Wire think the game is covered by the US “Fair use” -Act – stating that copyrighted material may be used without permission in certain situations – the studio is not interested in a legal battle against neither Lucasfilm or EA. Galaxy in Turmoil dropper therefore everything Star Wars to do, but the project will otherwise continue as before:

– Front Wire Studios walk away from Star Wars and will instead focus on creating a new, original game in a whole new universe. Our game will still have huge battles for up to 64 players battle on the ground and in space, destructible spaceship and a full single-player campaign, writes Romanelli.

Galaxy in Turmoil will still launch on Steam and will be completely free downloading. The developer assures that no micro transactions or other payment models will be added to the game, but reports that the Front Wire will launch a crowdfunding campaign for the game eventually.

EA has long-term plans with Star Wars.
at E3 we got to see a bit of what the developer has to forge “