When it comes to mismanagement, there are levels to the ineptitude that a big corporation can exhibit.
Sometimes, “mismanagement” is just a matter of a company trying to exist and survive under President Joe Biden’s “Bidenomics.”
Other times, like with the myriad of ways that the Walt Disney Company has completely bungled its once-beloved “Star Wars” property, it speaks to a deeper rot — the kind of rot that portends the fall of empires.
The latest hardship that “Star Wars” fans have had to endure while the intellectual property remains under the House of Mouse’s banner involves arguably the most beloved video game in the entire franchise’s history: 2003’s “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.”
You see, Disney, perhaps knowing that it is rapidly losing “nerd cred” with its core constituency, unveiled a wildly anticipated remake of that beloved 2003 title at Sony’s September 2021 “Playstation Showcase” event (think of it as a string of movie previews, but for video games.)
The announcement was met with thunderous applause and expectation — again, for many Star Wars fans, “Knights of the Old Republic” (KOTOR) is as beloved a franchise pillar as Darth Vader or “The Empire Strikes Back.”
Just about two years later, and with nary an official update on the title, that anticipation has given way to concern and consternation that this anticipated project would be killed off as the latest sacrifice on the altar of wild Disney mismanagement.
And that could be a blow to “Star Wars” fandom that the House of Mouse can ill afford at the moment.
Exacerbating matters, and highlighting some genuinely stunning decision-making by Disney, instead of trying to own up to the likely failure that was this KOTOR remake, Disney appears to be allowing its contracted partners to slink around on the internet and try to scrub it from existence.
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