![]() ![]() And there’s a lot of profit to be made from Star Wars. However Disney is a machine and while they say a lot of stuff about “magic” and “love” they, like all corporations, are mainly concerned about one thing: profit. ![]() It wasn’t the money he loved but rather the creation and nurturing of his beloved fictional world that drove him. Lucas is a storyteller who just wants to tell the stories he wants in the way he wants. ![]() He waited until he had completed the story he wanted to tell before made any more films and not a second sooner…they weren’t good films, but kudos to him to for sticking to his guns. I’m sure many Hollywood types were salivating at the idea of a sequel to Return of the Jedi but Lucas never budged. Plus the fact that between 19 he only made six Star Wars flicks, and that there was a decade’s long gap between half the films, supports this. He didn’t sell Star Wars for the money, he sold it so it would be secured and taken care of. ![]() Case in point he gave away the money he got from Disney to charity. Yeah, Star Wars did get merchandised to hell but the man himself doesn’t seem to be all that interested in bleeding his fans dry. You can say a lot of things about George Lucas but one thing you can’t do is accuse him of is being greedy. In the new world order "Mickey Dollars" will be worth quite a bit Disney Cares More About Your Money Than Lucas Did However for all we know everything fans loved about those comics might disappear forever. Now the creators who have long worked with those books might follow the license wherever it goes the same thing happened with the Transformers comic when it bounced around during the 2000s. Sooner or later Dark Horse will lose Star Wars. The exact same thing happened with Disney’s deal with BOOM! Studio after Marvel was acquired. It would be fiscally irresponsible of them to not eventually create the books in-house. While the deal between the comic company and Lucasfilm, as of this writing, is still standing Disney now owns the biggest comic book publisher on the planet: Marvel. On a sadder note Dark Horse’s Star Wars comics are in serious danger. Just think of it as an alternate universe you don’t have much of a choice. Sure Mara Jade and the Solo Twins are extremely important characters to the whole franchise but we shouldn’t expect to ever see them on the big screen. Why then would Disney do any different? What will end up happening is that the third trilogy will likely completely veer off course from what was written in those books (but elements, plot points and characters could easily make their way in). I know that the expanded universe is beloved and everything but even Lucas didn’t allow himself to be shackled by it when he started editing the film original trilogy for his Special Edition or when he made the second trilogy: both times he contradicted established expanded universe continuity and back-story without even blinking. Why did they get angry? Because they’re crazy. Once Disney/ Lucasfilms finally came out and said that they would in fact not be using the expanded universe as a template a lot of people got really angry. There are also numerous spin-off comics produced by Dark Horse Comics that also have a loyal following.Īnyway one of the first things I noticed when the deal went through was that many Star Wars fans were convinced that Episode VII would be based on Heir to the Empire, despite no one official ever once saying that would be the case. One of the most popular and longest running are the books that take place after Return of the Jedi, starting with Heir to the Empire in 1991 and still being published to this day. In case you are not aware the Star Wars franchise and story, aside from the films, are furthered in many different mediums. Thanks to this new approach to the series’ guns, there should be no more broken variants to worry about.This is a “wait and see” situation but hear me out for a bit. Any time a blueprint is bugged and stronger than the default weapon, the community is quick to point it out and make sure it is fixed. Not only will Supply Drops be out of the picture, but weapon blueprints are specifically designed so that they do not provide a competitive advantage. As such, players would constantly be opening supply drops in the hopes of getting one of the best variants like the AK-12 RIP or the BAL-27 Obsidian Steed - with the latter being a reason the game was dubbed BAL of Duty.įortunately, with Call of Duty’s Gunsmith and weapon blueprints being so crucial to the modern formula, it is highly unlikely that variants with better stats will return. These alternate versions of guns that were found in Supply Drops, AKA Loot Boxes, were significantly better than the default versions of guns. One aspect of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare that was hugely controversial was weapon variants. ![]()
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