News: DICE 'begged' EA to develop Star Wars: Battlefront

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News: DICE 'begged' EA to develop Star Wars: Battlefront

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Different studio was almost given Battlefront dev duty, EA reveals.

News: DICE 'begged' EA to develop Star Wars: Battlefront news

"[DICE developing Star Wars: Battlefront] was almost not happening," Soderlund said in an interview with CVG. "It was just something as boring as resources and availability. The DICE guys Karl Magnus Troedsson and Patrick Bach were talking and I told them we were in dialogues with Disney over this deal and they just looked at me and said, 'Why haven't you spoken to us? What are you doing? We want to make Battlefront.'"

But why didn't EA think of DICE first? Well, the publisher claims that it assumed DICE wouldn't be interested in working on a licensed title.

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