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EA releases 4 C&C games as open source. (EA Has Done something..Good? and Praise Worthy? And not awful?) (kotaku.com)
submitted 5 months ago by A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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The Original Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Generals, and Renegade have all been released under GPL licensing to the public.

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

Lol, gottem

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 17 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Damn... Thats actually pretty cool.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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?"

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

when a game is open sourced its almost universally just the code, and not the art assets.

This is only speculation on my part, but I assume it has something to do with the headache of the art assets being used in media/advertising/etc and trying to detangle.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks for not including any links at all, Kotaku.