suddenimpulse

I played Battlefront 2 for many weeks before the Beta. The core gameplay feels essentially the same even if the mechanics are a bit different. People have their nostalgia goggles on. Not saying the game doesn't have issues. The spawn system, the vehicle tokens and the lack of classes are all things I'd like changed. Galactic conquest, a campaign or space battles.. I can wait until Battlefront 2 when they can do Force Awakens stuff and will not have to rush it to get it out in time for the first movie. It's likely at least one of those will be in there.

I think you should also consider trying to do a showing of this game on reddit.com/r/gaming

It's the largest video game subreddit on the website and I know for a fact a ton of Star Wars and video game fans are subscribed to that subreddit that aren't subscribed to this one. I've used Reddit for a good while and I'm a massive Star Wars fan/nerd and I only subscribed to the Star Wars subreddit about a month ago. I know there were a ton of people on there that were interested in this game but just thought it was dead. I bet you'd get tons of attention and questions if they knew you were trying to get it going again. Lots of professional game developers and artists on there too. I've seen some volunteer their help for free on occasion for projects like this

Also, certainly. I wasn't saying any of these were a for sure thing, just ideas for your team to consider bringing up to them or that might spring new ideas on how to help get it green lit. I really hope your teams time and passion pays off. If I could solely fund this game all by myself and get their approval I wouldn't think twice about it.

I think it would really help you guys to sweeten the deal if you offered to setup a kickstarter to help fund development. Then contact the big gaming websites when it's up (Kotaku, IGN, GameSpot) asking them to do an article/interview about it with a link to the Kickstarter. As long as it's set at a realistic goal I am certain it will reach it and then some if you show clips of game play on the kickstarter page. Tell them they want have to pay for all the development this way. Execs care about money and risk more than anything. This way it's less money and less risk for them.

If they want dlc... I don't like paid dlc a lot of the time but EA loves dlc and they are the only Star Wars publisher and you'd likely have to do it anyway for them to say yes and I'd rather it have dlc than not exist at all so tell them you are willing to make dlc to increase their profit margins. Maybe an arena mode against troops and jedi/sith focusing on Saber combat and the dlc would be different playable characters for it with different combat styles.

Invoke Outcast and Academy and tell them there are many people still playing those games and people are thirsting for a good lightsaber combat deep game and this would fill a hole in their game plans. Plus Darth Maul is very popular and underused.

I would love this game so much I really hope it happens.

I love that Darth Maul got more air time in the tv series. The only thing I really don't like is the robot legs, mostly because he just looked weird to me with them, personally. I haven't read the connecting material which may explain it, but I always thought that was quite a stretch that he somehow survived that initial death situation.

It also really irked me that Savage was the one with the double sided lightsaber, I'm still puzzled by that decision.

This is something that is such a big issue in getting help. Not many of us can drop $100+ an appointment 6 times just to find out we need to start all over again.