Quantic dream's star wars eclipse hits roadblock amid studio shakeups
A new report has shed light on the goings on at French studio Quantic Dream and revealed concern about the future of Star Wars Eclipse. Last month, Quantic Dream canceled its live service game, Spellcasters Chronicles, just three months after its early access launch.
Quantic dream cancels spellcasters chronicles, raising doubts about star wars eclipse
The studio best known for successful single-player story-driven games, such as Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human, signaled that the Spellcasters Chronicles cancellation would result in layoffs, although it has yet to say how many are affected.
At the time of the cancellation, Quantic Dream insisted the development of Star Wars Eclipse “is not affected by this decision and continues as planned.” But according to French website gamekult, Eclipse is suffering from “a lack of resources, vision, and progress.”
Announced in 2021 via a flashy cinematic trailer, Star Wars Eclipse has flown under the radar in the years since. Set within the franchise's High Republic era, Eclipse is expected to integrate Quantic Dreams' traditional story-based gameplay with an action-adventure game set in the Star Wars universe.
However, Gamekult said Quantic Dream is reportedly considering laying off 115 staff — said to amount to a quarter of the company's workforce — following the cancellation of Spellcasters Chronicles, which itself sparked a strike organized by the STJV union that took place in front of the studio's Paris headquarters.
Star Wars Games That Never Were View 9 Images Apparently, on the day of the strike (June 25), a delegation from Lucasfilm was due to visit Quantic Dream to check the progress of Star Wars Eclipse. The striking staff wanted to send a clear message: as things stand, Eclipse cannot be finished if the redundancy plan goes through, or, as gamekult put it: “saving the company from a very painful cancellation, which currently hangs like a sword of Damocles over the employees.”