VoidWanderer said:
Never has the gif of Kirk screaming Khan's name felt so appropriate...
Maybe if the IPs were getting scrapped instead of sold off. We (as consumers) potentially lose nothing here. People who actually have something to contribute to these IPs will buy them off Disney (who IS selling them) and will try to do something new with them or just keep the crappy lucas arts status quo. You are only seeing the death of a bloated company that really bad at what they did at this stage of the game.
So, in fact, this could be the best thing that has happened to our beloved titles. Unless you genuinely believe that Lucas Arts has been a legitimate steward of the titles and that they weren't phoning it it at all over the last decade. In which case you're wrong. Almost empiracally wrong but admittedly subjectively so. I mean, really, this last decade has been everything with the Lucas name on it taking a giant dump on everything it once was. Like if Picasso had spent the last ten years of his life finding old masterpieces he'd made and did hand-paint art over them.
So Kirk or anyone screaming over this needs to take a step back and understand the difference between the death of an IP and the death of a studio.
Here, take a look at Metro: Last Light: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro:_Last_Light
as well as its development company: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4A_Games
Note that the original publisher (THQ) had to go bankrupt and subsequently ended up selling the publishing rights (IP rights) of the game.
Koch Media bought it for $5.8 million and the exact same development team is still developing it with new resources available to them that weren't available when they were in THQ.
Frankly, we should be incredibly grateful to Disney stepping in and saving the Star Wars franchise and all of these things from the increasingly more inept hands of Lucas. But that gratefullness can be withheld until we see the first movie and what they do with it.
