Megatron1983 wrote:I still do, no plans for it?
Just like id and the Doom engine?
Do what they did:
Make it available for the community damn it and dont throw it away!
How many years later? Rogue couldn't have legally released the Strife source at the time had they wanted to. id owned the rights to the Doom code. Once id released it, it was too late for Rogue to do the same.
Also, the way people talk about it (..got lost when rouge sold some office stuff) it wasnt something done on purpose, it happened on accident.
What I meant was that they didn't put a huge enough importance on it to back it up somewhere safe or to make sure they kept it during the move. Since Strife wasn't that popular and they had no idea that down the road that people were going to want the source (or that they had a reason to release it), I imagine they didn't see it as a huge priority.
So in both ways what they did sucks hairy balls.
- Didnt have any plans for it and just threw it away = being selfish and screwing the community.
Yes, selfish. 1) They didn't have full ownership of the code. Even had they wanted to, they couldn't have given it to you. 2) 99.9999% of the software you use, you'll never see the source code for. Is that the company being selfish? Since when is it a requirement to hold onto source code and eventually give it away for free? 3) YOU'RE being selfish wanting something you have no right to own. If they gave it to us, that'd be fantastic and they should be applauded, just like id Software should be for releasing the Doom code. However there is no law saying they had to do this for you.
- Lost it on accident = just as dumb
Do you know where your homework from 2nd grade is? Because I'd really like to see it. You don't? OMG you are a motherfucking jackass! You should have expected someone down the road to want that!! Why the hell didn't you save it, dumbass?!?
I trust you get my point.
Aside of that, Doom engine was already outdated when Strife was released, they made a game in 1996 with technology from 1993.
Its pretty obvious that this engine had zero future but a mega big community.
Just another reason not to take extra special care of the source code. I'll bet what wasn't obvious at the time was that years down the road someone was going to be bitching them out for not keeping code to a game that didn't sell very well and almost no one (apparently) liked very much.
Especially since Strife added nice features to the engine it should have been a normal thing for Rogue to know that the community is gonna want the source if they have no use for it.
Before the Doom source was released, releasing the source to a game was unprecedented, or at least extremely rare. How can you expect them to know in advance that someone is going to want their code, they're going to be willing to give it to them, and the features in the engine could be useful to other people, especially given that (this is a recording) 1) the code wasn't theirs to give away, and 2) the game didn't sell well.
