Star Wars Eclipse Sounds Like A Canceled Game Waiting To Happen
Star Wars Eclipse — the first High Republic-set Star Wars video game - was initially revealed at The Game Awards 2021, but rumors of the game experiencing troubled development make it seem as if it could already be on its way to getting canceled. News of development struggles has revealed that Star Wars Eclipse could be too ambitious of a project, and that it could take many years to complete. Add on top of this the developer Quantic Dream's reported controversies and those of its head, David Cage, and it sounds as if Star Wars Eclipse could already be on its way to getting canceled.
Both Quantic Dream and Cage have come under fire in recent years. The French developer saw a workplace scandal similar to Activision Blizzard's in 2018. Alleged overbearing workloads, verbal harassment, racist and homophobic tendencies, and even the photoshopped images of employees in sexual positions culminated in Quantic Dream being sued by a former employee and a media takedown of the company in France. That Quantic Dream even got the opportunity to create Star Wars Eclipse has thus come across as surprising, as the amount of controversy associated with the company and Cage after a slew of scandals and heavily critiqued games like Detroit: Become Human have left the studio's reputation badly damaged.
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News of development struggles suggests that Star Wars Eclipse may only worsen Quantic Dream's reputation. The well-known leaker Tom Henderson previously claimed that the game would come out in three to four years due to production troubles, but a new report from him suggests that Star Wars Eclipse may not release until 2027 because of the alleged difficulty Quantic
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