It's been a rough stretch for Star Wars: Eclipse. Quantic Dream, the studio best known for its cinematic narrative games like Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain, is now trying to build a full open-world experience for the first time, and by their own admission, they're doing it shorthanded. Developers at the studio have reportedly flagged that they're understaffed, which is a pretty alarming thing to hear about a project of this scale and ambition.
Open-world games are notoriously difficult to ship even when studios have hundreds of people and years of genre experience. Quantic Dream has neither of those advantages right now. They're essentially learning a new discipline while also trying to build something massive in one of the most scrutinized fictional universes on the planet. That's a tough combination. None of this means Eclipse is doomed, studios have pulled through worse situations before, but the warning signs are real and worth watching. Fans who've been hyped since that cinematic reveal trailer back in 2021 might want to dial expectations back a notch until we hear something more concrete about where production actually stands.
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