Context: I saw a post a while about Paradox Interactive cancelling their life simulation game Life By You and someone commented saying they wish Paradox Interactive would release what they’ve completed under an open source license. Follow up comments said it wasn’t feasible largely due to a Russian nesting doll of licenses that wouldn’t be compatible.

Question: What would be some obstacles in making a modern stereotypical AAA or indie game open source? Or even just segments for it for that matter?

This would be ignoring the financial impact. It would be like CD PROJEKT RED making Cyberpunk 2077 as open source as possible as a an action of good will.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    A AAA game’s source code can be like 100 Tb and with every update they’ll have to reupload it. Also there’s always stuff (usually music) the developers don’t own and buy a cheap restricted license for.

            • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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              2 months ago

              If you think that was toxic, you must be very new to the Internet.

              The part that annoys people is when you doubled down to try to save your argument instead of saying something along the lines of “yeah, you’re right”.

              • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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                2 months ago

                If you think that was toxic, you must be very new to the Internet.

                This makes no sense. Toxic is toxic, even if it’s not extremely toxic. Don’t justify toxicity if it’s less than average or maximum.

                The part that annoys people is when you doubled down to try to save your argument instead of saying something along the lines of “yeah, you’re right”.

                I don’t see that I did anything wrong except for giving unchecked wrong info. My “defense” was ok. Maybe I exaggerated the size more than just “a bit” but still.

                • Nutteman@lemmy.world
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                  2 months ago

                  I think its more the lack of self awareness when you, with full confidence, made unverified claims and presented them as fact. That’s toxic. Me pointing out that you did so was not toxic.

                  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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                    2 months ago

                    I agree that giving unverified info is bad but it looks like 99% of people here do it so idk. It doesn’t make it good though. Also your toxicity isn’t in what you say but in how you say it. But you won’t understand. You’re hopeless like a lot of people here (at least 2/3 are toxic but idk how many are hopelessly toxic). Again, just so you don’t suspect me in changing the topic, it doesn’t justify me giving wrong info.

    • tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      So you’re saying the problem is that it’s infeasible to distribute the source code, which they already distribute to all of their developers with no problem, while there are numerous platforms that will host it for you for free if it’s public FOSS?..