Stig Asmussen, the director behind Respawn Leisure’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and its current sequel has left writer Digital Arts for unspecified causes.

2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was an enormous hit, promoting hundreds of thousands of copies and garnering rave evaluations from critics and followers. Earlier this yr, the sport’s sequel, Jedi: Survivor, debuted to equally constructive evaluations and gross sales. Each video games have been seen by many as an enormous enchancment over EA’s earlier Star Wars output, which included multiplayer shooters and canceled initiatives. And now, the person who helped lead growth on the Jedi video games is not with Respawn or the studio’s dad or mum firm EA.

In accordance with a brand new September 13 report from Bloomberg, Stig Asmussen has left EA, with the Madden and Battlefield writer confirming the information with the outlet.

When requested concerning the departure, EA offered Kotaku with this assertion:

After cautious thought and consideration, Stig Asmussen has determined to go away Respawn to pursue different adventures, and we want him the most effective of luck. Veteran Respawn leaders can be stepping as much as information the staff as they proceed their work on Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

The precise motive for Asmussen’s departure just isn’t but identified. His exit from Respawn, at the least from the skin, does appear shocking, because the Jedi video games have been thought of large successes for EA and its stewardship of Star Wars. His sudden exit appears much more shocking when you think about that, in accordance with Asmussen, the Jedi collection of video games was all the time meant to be a trilogy, implying a 3rd sport is coming sooner or later.

In March, a month earlier than the launch of Jedi: Survivor, Asmussen informed IGN that he “all the time needed to see [the Jedi saga] as a trilogy.” He defined additional that the staff had “concepts of what we might do past [Jedi: Survivor].”

Whereas it’s very probably EA and Respawn will develop a 3rd sport within the in style franchise, finishing the presumably deliberate trilogy, it’ll seemingly be with out the director who helped make the primary two chapters memorable.

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