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Casey Hudson’s Star Wars RPG Backed by New $100 Million Fund With a Lean, No-GenAI Plan

GreaterThan Group funding signals a shift toward smaller teams with tighter single-player designs.

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Overview

  • A Tuesday Bloomberg profile detailed GreaterThan Group, a new holding company from former NetEase leader Simon Zhu, with about $100 million to back Arcanaut, BulletFarm, and MAGship.
  • Director Casey Hudson said Arcanaut will avoid generative AI in development, calling it creatively soulless.
  • Hudson said Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic will not be a 100–200 hour grind, aiming for a focused story players can finish and a release before 2030.
  • GTG and its studios plan to keep teams small to control costs and keep a clear creative vision.
  • Zhu formed GTG after NetEase pulled support for several Western partners, pitching the fund as a way to rescue worthy projects and give developers better working conditions.