Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3
GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
This is brilliant! :) aw, I hope it benefits the OpenRA developers and means more fun things to play eventually :)
Wait… this is EA… are they okay? This is very unlike them
wabafee@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Almost like a mistake?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I think the old Westwood dev they put in charge of the franchise just doesn’t have any oversight.
turtle@lemm.ee 5 days ago
That would be a completely legendary move if the dev hired by EA just said “fuck it, I’m open-sourcing this shit!”
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
It sounds like that’s what happened, but through the proper channels. They hired a known CnC community/modding site admin as the dev.
I’d imagine he pitched that this was an easy way to reduce maintenance costs while fostering massive good will and making the amount of long tail sales over time higher.