New details emerge for the canceled Star Wars project Ragtag from Visceral Games

Electronic Arts (EA) hasn't had the easiest time with its Star Wars projects. In that location take been multiple cancellations, including one which led EA to shut down Visceral Games in 2022, ending the studio's work on a project known as Ragtag under Amy Hennig. Zach Mumbach, former producer at Visceral Games, spoke with the MinnMaxShow about his time working at Visceral and gave additional details on this canceled game.

"The sequence of events was like - 'hey, we have a studio with their own engine who make really high quality single-player games - the Dead Infinite series, right - and we're going to take that studio, move them to Frostbite and accept them make a Battlefield game,'" Mumbach says.

As a issue of this, a lot of the staff at Visceral who were experienced with singleplayer games left the studio and multiplayer-focused developers were hired. Then, the studio pivoted again from Battlefield Hardline over to Star Wars Canaille, a third-person singleplayer title.

"That's the thing which is hard for me to get over," Mumbach explains. "Who's making this program? There is no plan, obviously. We were experts at this blazon of game ii years ago then we re-made our studio. And information technology was difficult. And nosotros pulled it off. And right when we were done it'due south like 'go back to what you guys did before'. And we were like 'well those guys who were good at what nosotros did before left'."

Mumbach says that working with Amy Hennig was amazing, that under her the studio had a chance to brand "the greatest Star Wars game e'er made and a possible Game of the Year contender." Mumbach notes that a lot of it came down to timing and that leadership executives at EA were focused on multiplayer titles like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and that they sent out a press release saying "No one cares about single-player whatsoever more."

Needless to say EA has somewhat changed since then, with Respawn Entertainment's singleplayer adventure Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order crossing 10 million players as of May. Another Star Wars game is slated for this autumn, with Motive Studio's Star Wars: Squadrons releasing on October 2, 2022.

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