Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic boss thinks AI is "creatively soulless"

By Liam Dawe - 13 May 2026 at 9:57 am UTC

Thankfully, it seems that Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic will be one to keep on your watch list if you're not a fan of generative AI.

While the game is still quite some ways off, I am seriously excited for Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. Coming from Arcanaut Studios, which was founded by Casey Hudson who was Project Director on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and the Mass Effect trilogy which are some of my all-time favourites - there's a lot of history going into this one.

Speaking to Bloomberg (paywalled), Hudson mentioned: "I just find AI to be creatively soulless. It's hard to imagine where it’s actually helpful in the process. I’m just really unimpressed with it". Hudson also mentioned it won't take hundreds of hours to get through it, but there will be plenty to discover in multiple goes.

The original teaser is below if you missed it:

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As for when it might release, going by a post from Hudson on X - at least sometime before 2030.

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Arehandoro 9 hours ago

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The good: "I just find AI to be creatively soulless. It's hard to imagine where it’s actually helpful in the process. I’m just really unimpressed with it"

The bad: At least sometime before 2030.

The ugly: Me 😭

Jokes aside, the original KoToRs and the Mass Effect trilogy are also within my all-time favs, I'm really hoping for this one to be amazing.

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pb 9 hours ago

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You and all of the people who have a sense of aesthetics, Mr Hudson.

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such 9 hours ago

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The way these AAA projects tend to go these days we'll see what's the take on AI on the 3rd game director when the team is on the second project restart and crunching 7 days a week to make 2032 and not get the studio closed even before the day 1 patch.

Not something I wish on the devs, but this is a bold statement that's smack in the middle of the honeymoon stage of development. Yeah, sure.

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neolith 6 hours ago

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Is that Bastila? If so, why is her lightsaber blue? If not, why isn't that Bastila?
This game better be good.

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Kimyrielle 5 hours ago

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Bold statement. Even pro-AI people don't claim that it has a soul... 😄

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ahjolinna 2 hours ago

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well when it comes to Disney Star Wars and creativity ...that ship has sailed sadly day1, even AI has more soul.

The Mandalorian and Grogu movie is expected to flop worse than the Solo movie, that should tell everything of the state of Star Wars

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Kimyrielle 2 hours ago

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Am I the only one who thought Solo wasn't THAT bad? But yeah, in general, movies don't seem to care about writing anymore. There aren't many still being made with a compelling plot and characters that aren't flat as cardboard. Not only Disney. From that perspective, no need to be afraid of AI. It can't possibly be worse.

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