The International House of Mojo

It really is a sad day.. I remember the excitement that Lucasarts logo gave me when I saw it before many of my favorite games as a kid. They left an amazing legacy..

So true, jp. I think it's safe to say that the highest concentration of dumb-eyed LEC optimists--albeit cautious ones--have made up the great community of this site for the better part of this century. Even when the writing was on the wall, I think some tiny splinter of our collective inner children still wanted to believe that the Golden Guy had one last great trick up his sleeve, and that it'd turn out differently.

Today, I feel a bit older than I did on Tuesday.

Oh, 100%.

The shock is nobody saw the Disney buyout coming in the first place. This conclusion though still hurts because we're optimistic fools (due to MI SEs, TMI and Steam availability of several LEC classics)

It's official. LucasArts has fallen...

I get the umbrage at Disney, but... again, I can't imagine this having played out any other way. The first leg of any acquisition is to audit the various money-making entities and gauge whether or not they're going to further your own investment... if I'm The Mouse and I take even the briefest look over the story of LEC's last ten years, there's no way in blazes that I'm going to come away with anything resembling optimism, let alone faith that those in charge (Or the nine new CEOs who will likely be rotated in over the next six months) have any clue what they're doing in a big-picture sense.

Here's to hoping that the existing IPs get put on the block, like other folks have been mentioning. It's too bad that Universal didn't somehow wind up with the company, they could have crammed Guybrush and Razor and Bobbin into the rest of the weird, cobbled-together licenses that are on display at Islands of Adventure.

Jurassic Park! Back to the Future! Harry Potter! Dagwood.. and... Blonde?!

What.The.Hell. I've been marathoning all the SCUMM games this week, and now up to Monkey Island, so I think it's appropriate now that we're mourning the loss of a company that once made such gems. Goodbye LucasArts, you made our childhoods, thankyou.

I'm absolutely, categorically filled with grief. Thank you for making my childhood so happy, LEC. See you on the other side.

Disney Facebook Page getting lit up with angry LA fans

All i have to say is NOOOO

Thanks for the memories little Golden Guy :(

You jest, but this is the perfect excuse for me to actually sit down and write that Secret History 15 that was suppose to reflect on the studio's trajectory.

A funeral is in order for the once great LucasArts. IHOM, would you do the honors?

Expected, but still sad.
See ya Lucasarts, Our love-hate relationship is finally at an end.

They did get Indy, but that second point is why they don't seem to want to do anything with it. I'm not sure if Paramount's entitlement extends to games, but either way, you have to think that an Indiana Jones venture would be a profitable one, I guess just not as slam-dunk as Star Wars.

Disney didn't get Indy in the deal. I think Paramount has a stake?

Heh, I'd love to see some good team getting licence on The Dig, Full Throttle, Dott, etc. :D

....and the Mojo offices have already been ransacked.

Not surprised, but still a little sad.

;(

The similarity with the "marketplace reality" statement of yore is striking and somewhat ironic.

It's hard to be sad. For the people that cared about the studio, the real tears were shed long ago. I guess this doesn't really alter the fate of the original IP, which Disney would simply be sitting on, unless there's a desire to put them on the auctioner's block.

Good riddance I say. The company has been a soulless husk for over a decade now, nothing but a Star Wars crap making machine.

When it comes to licensing I don't really care except in the unlikely event that Ron Gilbert wanted to do another Monkey Island. I found the Telltale effort to be really bland and by the numbers and have no interested in seeing more MI games from them.

On the brighter side of things, I can only hope this means we can now finally get the entire backlog of adventure classics on digital distribution stores.

Well... There you go.

Even though they only mentioned Star Wars, hopefully some other IPs can live to set out on another adventure some day...

This is sad in the sense that putting down a dog with rabies is sad: it's sad because putting down the dog is the best thing to do.

My only question is whether this increases, decreases, or has no effect on the miniscule probability that Ron someday makes the true MI3 .

This was pretty much expected (and LucasArts was going in the direction of a strictly licensing house even before Disney bought it), but the thing that bothers me is that they only mention licensing Star Wars games.

They don't even seem interested in Indiana Jones (from this and all of their other PR), let alone the LucasArts classic adventure titles. I just don't understand why they won't license them when developers have the desire to work on them. Sure, they don't make millions of dollars in profit, but you'd think they'd still OK it since there's no financial risk to them, and they'd only reap the rewards from the licensing percentage (especially since they likely won't even act as a publisher for any future games).

This LucasArts hasn't been the LucasArts I loved for a long, long time, but this is sad news all the same.