naiwa 2026-05-17

The game about the New Republic received the green light but never reached release.

According to PC Gamer, Lucasfilm gave the go-ahead for the development of a new Star Wars game. The project was supposed to be connected to the era of the New Republic, but in the end, its production was halted by EA.As James Ohlen explained, initially BioWare wanted to make not a game about the New period, but a direct sequel to Star Wars: The Old Republic. Later, the idea was reconsidered, and executive creative director Dave Filoni supported the new version, setting only one condition: to move the events several centuries before the fall of the Republic.According to the authors' concept, such a time shift would organically connect the game with key events and works of the franchise.However, everything hit a wall with EA management. Although the company still owned BioWare and was releasing SWTOR, some top management did not want to return to such a project. Ohlen even managed to convince Patrick Söderlund, but the board of directors ultimately refused to allocate funds for the new game.Against the backdrop of huge expenses on SWTOR, into which EA once invested about 300 million dollars, management did not want to risk such a large amount again.
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