Disney Closes Avalanche Software, the Developer of Disney Infinity 3.0: Star Wars.

Game Informer Disney Infinity

In a rather shocking move, Disney is shutting down their Avalanche Software division, meaning that no new Disney Infinity games will be made. Sadly, this also means that there won’t be any more Star Wars-related content in development for the brand.

 

From Cinelinx:

Apparently, Disney Interactive has decided they no longer want to be in the game development/publishing game. Instead, they’re switching to a pure licensing model, and using partnerships with other studios (like EA is with Star Wars). The result, is Disney Infinity has been given the boot and will no longer get support and updates. A few reasons were given aside from the switch in business models, but simply put…Toys-to-Life as a gaming genre just isn’t making money anymore. Not enough to justify the costs of production. It’s a big bummer as Infinity feels so new still (having only been out for about 3 years), and the recent Star Wars expansion enticing fans and collectors. I guess even that wasn’t enough.

There’s a silver lining for the Avalanche Software employees who are now out of a job, as Disney is apparently helping them find new career opportunities both in and out of the reach of the company. As it stands with Disney Infinity 3.0, there are two more releases of content: a few characters from Alice Through The Looking Glass and a final playset based on Finding Dory. For those hoping to fill out their collections of Rebels characters, it appears that they’re in for a disappointment, as there will be no figures for Hera or Chopper. Former Avalanche Software CEO John Blackburn had the following to add on the subject:

By now you may have heard the news that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue production of Disney Infinity. From the beginning, Disney Infinity was built for you—our fans—and I wanted to take a moment to thank you not just for your support over the years, but for creating a community that made Disney Infinity more than just a game. Our goal for Disney Infinity was to bring the best of Disney storytelling to life in homes around the world, and with your support we accomplished that. We hope you had as much fun playing the game as we had making it.

While this probably comes as a disappointment to many fans of the Disney Infinity series, there’s a possibility that Star Wars characters may now appear in a LEGO Dimensions expansion instead, given that Disney has trusted Traveler’s Tales with developing LEGO games based on Star Wars and Marvel characters. For now, fans will just have to be content with LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens – a title which will probably earn itself a pair of sequels based on the other two movies in the Sequel Trilogy.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

22 thoughts on “Disney Closes Avalanche Software, the Developer of Disney Infinity 3.0: Star Wars.

  • May 11, 2016 at 3:11 am
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    Man, what a bummer. My kids LOVED the SW packs, and messing around with logic and behavior in the Toybox. Agree that the real silver lining may in fact be that TT gets to play with SW in Dimensions – a terrific game, ripe for some juicy expansions.

  • May 11, 2016 at 3:15 am
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    Dang, No Lando, Bossk, Ventress or Cad Bane figures….

  • May 11, 2016 at 3:24 am
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    Dam, I really Loved this brand.

  • May 11, 2016 at 3:26 am
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    Dam i really Liked this Brand. I work in retail and Infinity still sells well, Star Wars and other popular characters sell well. But we still have about 100 Spot figures from the disney film the good dinosaur.

  • May 11, 2016 at 3:38 am
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    But will the game itself still be playable? Or is it like online MMOs, where you’ll never be able to play it again once its shut down?

    • May 11, 2016 at 3:43 am
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      yeah, it’s mostly offline

  • May 11, 2016 at 5:05 am
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    Knew this was happening with all the sales they kept having. Me and my Brother nearly have them all. It’s very kiddie oriented but it sort of reminded me of a cross between those 90’s Super Star Wars games and the Lego ones.

    On the upside, Hope this means 75 percent off clearance since the figures themselves have a certain charm to them.

    • May 11, 2016 at 9:43 pm
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      I know – I’m contemplating picking up an extra Chewie and Han to display with my studio scale Falcon. Alternatively though, we’ll see the secondary market start gouging like crazy on prices for figures.

      • May 12, 2016 at 2:53 pm
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        I seen just about all of them so far. So many characters they never got around to like Qui-Gon, Jango, Grievous, Lando, etc. would love to have seen what the future films games would have been like to.

  • May 11, 2016 at 2:10 pm
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    let the clearance of the Infinity figures begin!!!

  • May 11, 2016 at 2:41 pm
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    Glad I didn’t invest. My son was interested in this game, but I just couldn’t stomach the ongoing price tag – constantly buying new figures and so on. For a kid, I see the draw to a game like Infinity. I myself would have loved it back when I was a kid, but I guess other parents like me just said no to the added financial burden of the toys to life genre.

    • May 11, 2016 at 8:01 pm
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      My wife’s cousin (he is 8) has a bunch of the Star Wars Disney Infinity characters and while he really enjoys the game, all of the new characters you purchase cannot be played in the campaign mode with out unlocking them first. I find this absolutely insane. You ask people to buy a $14 figure and THEN they don’t have the ability to play with said character right out of the package? Seemed like a big scam to me.

      • May 11, 2016 at 9:48 pm
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        How is it a ‘scam’? You just have to do some – very minimal – exploring to unlock.

        • May 11, 2016 at 10:14 pm
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          That’s like going to the store and buying a Entenmann’s cake, then when you get home and open the box instead of a delicious marshmallow Devils food cake (my favorite btw) there’s are all the ingredients that you have to make the cake yourself. You’re sold the figure thinking that all you have to do is put him on the platform and you can play, but it’s not the case no matter what little exploring you have to do. This has nothing to do with the quality of the figures (they are beautiful) but if you spend the $ for something and then they should work out of the box.

    • May 11, 2016 at 9:47 pm
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      I was hesitant too, for the same reason. HOWEVER, what I realized is that the figures don’t cost any more than Hasblow’s 5 POA crap (when you can find it), and the sculpts and paint ops are superior. You also don’t need to buy every figure – just a nice assortment of characters with different skills (currently have Hulk Buster, Luke, Leia, Han, Chewie, Kylo, and Rocket Raccoon).

  • May 11, 2016 at 4:46 pm
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    That’s good. We don’t need to dillute the SW brand more with kiddy stuff. Keep SW for mature kids, don’t go lower.

    • May 11, 2016 at 9:42 pm
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      Ever play it? Your kids ever play it? No? Well, thanks for your input, I suppose.

      • May 11, 2016 at 10:07 pm
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        I hate that I read all of your posts in the Doctor’s voice.

      • May 13, 2016 at 10:04 am
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        Maybe kids should play real Star Wars games not Disney pixarified crap

      • May 14, 2016 at 9:45 pm
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        No I never played it, and my kids are too old to play it. But when I was a kid I know I would have said “that’s for kids”. When I was a kid I played games like Tie Fighter, Dark forces, not “Lego Star Wars”.

        This kind of stuff dillutes Star Wars, just like that canceled comedy tv show would have done.

    • May 13, 2016 at 10:03 am
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      Yes!! Thank u! Good I hated those ugly little kiddy crap toys. I knew that was a trend that wouldn’t last at all. Make real Star Wars games for real fans like shadows of the empire and more battlefront. Best star wars game ever

      • May 14, 2016 at 9:46 pm
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        ‘i’m still waiting for a real mature simulator like Tie Fighter.

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