EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3
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Just in general. EA has a lot to around for.
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Correct. Doom and Quake still cost money as well.
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To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game
Was expecting a catch. Still good for modding I guess
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Open source does not mean that the intellectual property is free. There's a lot of good that comes from this, and it's not like those games are expensive.
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Exactly, I really don't get the all or nothing thinking where you can't even acknowledge something unambiguously positive because of who is doing it.
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Can I at least have some shoes?
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This feels more like some o.g. Command and conquer devs who have worked at EA for a long time that are passionate about the franchise. There was no big PR release, no product tie in or announcement, no media campaign.
Recovering and restoring the source code for these titles was made possible through the combined efforts of EA technical director Brian Barnes, Respawn producer Jim Vessella, and Luke Feenan, a long-standing member of the C&C community who was involved in the development of the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection.
https://www.polygon.com/news/531365/command-and-conquer-open-source-code-ea
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Im now just happy that it’s far more likely for a clean 60fps mod that’s not locked behind someone’s patreon
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I realize. Intellectual property is an icky concept IMO but I know not everyone agrees
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Ah well I'm glad to see the devs sticking to their passions. I'm sure they're proud of this move.
With that said, I'm still surprised EA didn't try to capitalize on it somehow.
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The entire series is on sale on Steam right now for $6 if that helps.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1213210/Command__Conquer_Remastered_Collection/
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It's about thyme!
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Intellectual property is what allows them to make these games GPL.
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Though do also note that of these four, TD and RA1 were already made freeware years ago.
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That's only the HD remaster of TD and RA1.
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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
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IIRC, a few years ago EA hired some of the original devs, put them in charge of the franchise, and then went very hands-off, but with very little budget. So far they've done this, and a very reasonably priced 4K remaster of TD and RA1.
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I hope everyone's SSDs have enough SPACE
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Finally someone can fix Twilight Flame
