Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit

EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The original was EA, this re-release is Aspyr, so as bad as EA are I’m not convinced that they’re to blame here.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The original was not EA. It was Pandemic Studios, who release Battlefront 1 and 2 both before they were acquired by Electronic Arts between 2007- 2009.

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  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wait… I just had to look them up. The company behind kotar?? Okay now that fucking hurts. I’m used to the fall of EA but… Damn

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    • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The company behind KotOR’s mobile, Linux, and modern ports. Bioware was behind the original KotOR, and they were bought and ruined by EA.

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      • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Okay, I should have looked a little more I was just looking at the years. It sounded like the original release years. That’s what I get for half assidly googling while I work lol.

        So it’s like when Rockstar turned the GTA remasters over to the phone people and we ended up with a clusterfuck.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Embracer, actually, and while I do suspect that the blame for a lot of these problems lies with them (especially the lack of servers, which was almost certainly down to Embracer cheaping out), it’s hard to blame this particular failure on anyone but Aspyr. While Embracer almost certainly created the conditions by not giving them enough time and resources to deliver good work, it’s still on Aspyr that they used someone’s work without permission. There’s no real justification for that, even if you’re in a bind.

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  • blueson@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder if Embracer even had a lot of stakes in this? They sold of Aspyrs parent company (Saber) a few days before release.

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• Guntrigger@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Amazing how you can just shit on EA and get upvoted even though they are nothing to do with it.

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  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    imbulletproof.heavy

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  • Beetschnapps@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Almost like they earned a reputation or something. Almost like it’s expected.

    Kinda like doing something 10 times in a row so on the 11th time an assumption is made….

    I suppose someone could think that “amazing.”

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    • Guntrigger@feddit.ch ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, it is pretty amazing. It’s funny if they’re ironic upvotes and it’s wild if they’re upvotes of agreement because it is complete misinformation.

      Yeah EA has lots of bad rep and yeah they made a couple of games in the series. But the game the article is about, as well as the original game it is remaking were nothing to do with EA.

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