I am amazed this dude uploads it on a place like Github and even provides his name in the hopes of scoring a job. I will also be amazed if he doesn’t get sued for the rest of his earthly posessions.
Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life'
Submitted 12 hours ago by creamfresh@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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gedfromgont@piefed.ca 11 hours ago
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
This is like those “I found a hidden safe in a wall in my home” posts on Reddit but specifically for gamers and I love it.
I had a blast with Q4 and been waiting over 20 years for the next Quake. Guess this will have to do.
KssioAug@piefed.zip 12 hours ago
It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can’t Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?
AmyAye@nord.pub 11 hours ago
Activision and Github are both part of the same company too. Maybe a different Git would have been better.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 7 hours ago
I like Codeberg, but I don’t think they would allow a project of this size, especially given the liability.
myster0n@feddit.nl 11 hours ago
Well, now he must be quaking in his boots!
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 hours ago
He heard the call and did his duty
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Seeing as he obtained it legally, albeit by accident, I think it would be whoever sold the hard disk that’s at fault.
Thorry@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Nah that’s not how that works. He might have obtained it legally and accidentally. But he made the decision to then distribute it. He can most definitely get sued for that. If you want to distribute basically anything, you need the right permissions / license for that.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
He doesn’t hold the copyright so has no right to distribute it. Like if you bought a manuscript from a book you don’t have the right to print copies of it and distribute it. Since you only are the owner of that specific manuscript not the copyright and distribution rights of the actual content.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 8 hours ago
Just finding something by accident doesn’t give you the right to publish it.
If you found someone manuscript in the drawer of a desk you bought, you would not gain the right to publish it, it still belongs to the person that wrote it. Physical possession has nothing to do with the right to distribute, that is IP law that goes back a hundred years.
Arras@nord.pub 11 hours ago
Can we please have XCOM3?
phx@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Sorry, gotta wait for a Quake 6 developer to find it in an SSD in an old laptop they bought online
Ioughttamow@fedia.io 11 hours ago
I just want XCOM 3 and dishonored 3… is that really too much to ask for?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Technically, Deathloop is Dishonored 3. Death of the Outsider kind of killed the base gameplay premise that Dishonored 1 and 2 were built on, though, so I wouldn’t expect a true Dishonored 3… ever, really.
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 hours ago
You just need to convince Satya Nadella that it’ll be profitable. Like, billions of dollars in ROI profitable.
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yes
warm@kbin.earth 11 hours ago
All the devs have gone, it would be a shell of its former self. If the original developers are still together somewhere, we would be better off getting a new IP.
albbi@piefed.ca 10 hours ago
Why? Xcom has its first game released in 1994. The IP has been around for a long time.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 8 hours ago
What do you mean “gone” did I miss some kind of dev genocide after 2005?
Smaile@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Fuckin baller man
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Better download it now before they get it pulled