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EA has open sourced a bunch of old Command & Conquer games (github.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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I'm not well versed in C&C, but it's always good to see more games open sourced.

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[–] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 75 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Almost like a mistake?

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the old Westwood dev they put in charge of the franchise just doesn't have any oversight.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

That's actually kind of a brilliant concept that should serve as an example for other video game publishers then: open-source the program so that it can be maintained by the community, but require a license to use the artwork. The community could eventually recreate and even improve the artwork anyway.