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[–] xor@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yep. they shouldn't be allowed to abandon games that people paid for... if they require drm...
i really like ID software's system of open sourcing games once they've aged enough...
i think that should be the standard...

[–] echo64@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

the reality is that it can't be the standard. id Software is the exception because they happened to own 99% of the code.

Ubisoft can't release the source code to some random game because it uses a lot of other companies code for physics, sound, networking, AI, scripting, graphics, everything.

The most realistic answer to this is that if you don't offer public access to copy-written works for 10 years, then it should fall into public ownership. let people pay for it or let the public own it.

[–] xor@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 months ago

that's not the reality...