Actually CDProjekt publishes Disney's games and movies in Poland and they have really good relationship. Sometimes some big guy from Disney is on their conferences. ;) So maybe it will be easier.

Have you seen the promotional images? Because it's actually Darth Goofy. I'm not kidding.

I wonder why Lucas looks so depressed... after all he is 4 billions richer now.

Because he's all about money, right?

He's already rich. I guess the franchise he built from nothing into a global phenomenon means more to him. But it's definitely time for him to move on now. No doubt about that.

He's not looked happy in any of the promo pictures I've seen for this. I wonder if he's been forced into this by something else (big companies can have big problems attached, maybe they'd hit a bad patch and, like many, needed to merge in order to ride it out).

It could also be that he's not as in-tune with fans and that the backlash of the last 3 films has hit him harder than many fans realise (and after his changes in the original 3 as well).

Wouldn't surprise me, when you are a creator you get attached to your work. He is pretty much defined by Star Wars-when people think of George Lucas people think of Star Wars. With all the criticism people have made to Star Wars, justified or not, it must wear on him. He is human too.

Farther more, selling Lucas Films and Lucus Arts is giving away his life's work. This has to be emotional for him.

Now whether or not this will be good for the franchise and the business is another story altogether. At least its not being sold to a company like EA, Disney does try to preserve the integrity of their franchises (or pretends to at least).

edit: Goofy, least intimidating Sith lord ever. My cat is more intimidating than him. Donald Duck would've been better

I suppose this thread is as good as any of the other 25 threads about Disnass merger.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2012/10/31/so-disney-owns-star-wars-whats-happening-with-lucasarts/

I thought it was a take-over not a merger?

Anyway, to throw in my useless opnion along with everyone elses, I am cautiously optimistic. Lucasarts and Lucasfilm haven't released anything that I have liked in quite a while, and gog are clearly getting nowhere in their negotiations for the legacy games.

Now things have changed, there is a glimmer of hope where there once was none.

And there's hope for a good new Star Wars movie, like the original trilogy. "A New Hope" you could say?

I'm just redisovering GOG again after about a year...is there a thread or list somewhere that says what games have been pulled? The forums here are just a free for all for any manner of topics and search didn't have any valid hits for the terms I uses.

I think there is a user managed list somewhere, but yeah the forum is a bit of a free-for-all mess at finding things sadly. From what I recall though not a huge number of games are missing:

1) A few sports (mostly car/racing kinds) titles have been removed from all distributors (not just GoG) because of the licence for the assets (eg cars) being expired.

2) The developer of Perimeter and a few other games had their contracts come under a change of owner and thus, again, their titles were pulled (though there is hope that they'll be brought back through re-negociation with new rights holders).


Most of the time these deals only remove games from sale, not distribution - as such GoG still provides the games for people who bought them, they just can't retain the ability to sell any more units of them.
They can be just as troublesome as any company - the Ghibli franchise is currently distributed by Disney through a second deal after their first fell through years ago. This was as a result of Disney making significant changes through editing and translation to the stories from their original content (making them "suitable for western audiences" apparently).
They only got the second contract because of an agreement not to do so.

So they can change things around, but I do agree with the general sentiment that disney, for all their ups and downs, is generally a decent big company as big companies go (even if their polices regarding copyright are somewhat heavyhanded).

You can find list here:

http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_removed_from_GOG

I'm hopeful that this could bode well for us (via GOG). But yeah, I don't expect this CEO dude to even know about the LucasArts classics made throughout the 90s, much less care about any of those goldies. "Full Throttle you say? Is it a kid-friendly Billion Dollar Franchise(TM) perchance?"

Point taken, I just view them as one of the lesser of the evils as big corporations go. Still evil but slightly less so.

Thanks for the response overread and for the link Madmate.

I was under the impression more games would have been removed from what it sounded like but glad to see its quite minimal. Thanks again.