BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3!
Submitted 4 weeks ago by meldrik@lemmy.wtf to gaming@beehaw.org
https://peertube.wtf/w/aLtcjJ5dvN6C4ukxp77Hhs
Submitted 4 weeks ago by meldrik@lemmy.wtf to gaming@beehaw.org
https://peertube.wtf/w/aLtcjJ5dvN6C4ukxp77Hhs
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
So what have these asshats been doing lately that they need good publicity to hide behind?
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I think they just figured out they can offload the modernization of old games to the community. People will still have to buy the game to get the assets needed to play it legally.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Surely though if it is fully GPL, then new assets can be created by the community and the originals are no longer required?
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Has already been the case for years with OpenRA
Mondez@lemdro.id 4 weeks ago
So much negativity, regardless of motivation shouldn’t we applaud big companies for doing the right thing and reward them? Or are we all just going to fall over ourselves to give TakeTwo our money for GTA6 after they’ve screwed with the community?
deaf_fish@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
OpenRA has been a thing for a while. Maybe they figure this is the final squeeze at the lemon before it becomes irrelevant.
Mondez@lemdro.id 4 weeks ago
OpenRA is just a set of fan games though skinned to look like the originals, this code is the real deal to play the original gane content. OpenRA only has remakes of the early games too, the source release has Renegade and General/Zer Hour.
Poopfeast420@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I feel like it might be a bit like Ubisoft, although not as bad.
Ubisoft is going back and adding Steam Achievements to all or many of their games to maybe get on the good side of gamers again, after a few rough years.
EA has some bigger titles not perform like they’d like, e.g. Veilguard, FC 25, maybe Immortals of Avernum, Wild Hearts, Dead Space remake, etc., so they might not want to let it get as bad as Ubi, with some small, easy “wins.”
This is just my theory of course, I don’t really know anything.
realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 4 weeks ago
What are people playing instead of FC 25? Isn’t PES dead?