5mo ago

EA releases 4 C&C games as open source. (EA Has Done something..Good? and Praise Worthy? And not awful?)

EA Has Done Something Wonderful That Every Major Publisher Needs To Copy

The Original Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Generals, and Renegade have all been released under GPL licensing to the public.

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This is an awesome news. Now OpenRA will improve a lot more.
Though I still like this joke:
Why EA is the worst gaming company in United States? Because Ubisoft is in France.
- Lol, gottem
Freeing old game software is better that never doing it, so that's worthy of praise. I hope this becomes a trend that other companies try to one-up each other on.
I'll hold out on praise until they open source Red Alert 3.
Because then the game itself will have escaped to the one place that isn't corrupted by capitalism.
- SPACE!!!!!!!
Damn... Thats actually pretty cool.
Someone mentioned in another post about this that compiling the source of one of these still requires you to own the game on Steam to run it and I'm just like "if it's open source, couldn't I just, like ... Remove the code that enforces that?"
- Usually when code dumps like these happen they don't include any of the art assets. That's why you still need to get the game on steam to run it, to download the sprites and what not. Has nothing to do with the code enforcing anything.
  I don't know about these particular releases though, I could be wrong.
  
  Ah that actually makes sense. Open source of the code doesn't give you free reign on the art assets. Wouldn't have even thought of that myself.
Thanks for not including any links at all, Kotaku.
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour
This is one evil ass company. I think, although it sounds... pessimistic... this is Virtue signalling.
Either they did something pretty evil recently, that is even more evil than their normal evil, or they are about to.
- Let me start by saying that I agree that it’s a company that’s out there to make profit by any means and that they’ve been a huge pile of shite.
  But this isn’t virtue signalling.
  Virtue signalling by definition means preaching something you don’t practice.
  They didn’t only say they’re open sourcing it, they actually did.
  They might be doing it to try and “buy” some goodwill from the general populous, that’s possible, but they at least did something tangible to that end.
  Would’ve been cool if they released the assets too in addition to the code but I recon there might be reasons why that was not possible.

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