• @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    241 month ago

    I said it in another thread, but…

    Good guy EA.

    It is unlikely I will ever say that sentence again, but I hope they prove me wrong.

  • @KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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    101 month ago

    I… Huh? I’m fucking flabbergasted. What’s the catch? Are they high? Are their lawyers on a teamwork sauna conference for a week? What’s going on? This is so fucking unnerving

  • katy ✨
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    101 month ago

    Being EA, I’m waiting for the monkeys paw to kick in

    • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      91 month ago

      You’ll still need to buy the games to get the assets legally. EA is just checking if they can offload the modernization of old games they don’t want to remake to the community to keep the revenue stream going without having to invest on it.

      It’s a win-win situation if it works.

    • Destide
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      11 month ago

      Subclause they can inject microtransactions into any derivative works /s

  • @tehn00bi@lemmy.world
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    41 month ago

    I’m confused, years ago they released the game for free. Then openra came around and built a modern ish game from it. Then they did a remaster and the source code was available. Now they say you can do just about anything you want? How did openra work without this license ?

    • @9point6@lemmy.world
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      71 month ago

      OpenRA was written from scratch and just uses the assets from the free game.

      This is the source of the original game