why were people mad about this again?
Why were people mad about this again?
Luis Jones
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Jayden Hughes
Because it was from a time devs weren't lazy pieces of shit and still made custom engines. Also, source ports.
Christian Reyes
People wanted him to leak it instead of whoring out for reddit karma and a mediocre reward for the sake of modding.
Christopher Morgan
People were curious to see it, and he gave it back.
I wouldn't have shown anyone what was on it, but I think I would've had a look. Then sent it back.
Not sure though.
James Torres
huh, I never read up on it much when it happened, so they lost the sourcecode in the 90s and it showed up almost 20 years later?
Parker James
Do people not realize that if he leaked the code and Blizzard could prove it, he would have been sued to death as an example?
Also, these disks probably all have some special identification code, so unless he could go through the entire disk contents rapidly, it was over for him.
I am quite sad it wasn't leaked, but you habe to understand, noone's risking their livelyhood for a game.
Hudson Williams
Yes, they lost it in 2000.
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Adrian Baker
>Not going to McDonalds public wifi and uploading the contents to Mega using a crap laptop
Joshua Wilson
glad he didn't
imagine the hacks
Mason Harris
he could've dumped the .iso anonymously and then the code would've ushered in fan/modders remastering the game in 4K for modern systems as well as all sorts of cool mods/expansions
instead he went full bootlicker and got nothing back but overwatch e-items that will disappear in a few years. he's an idiot in the lowest sense of the word
Xavier Clark
>VPN's don't exist
Every time you apologists show up
Landon Morgan
Blizzard would lose. If something is "lost" and not reported for a certain period of time, then its not stolen and "claimed" property.
This dumb fuck redditor NPC was trained to be a good white night and turn it in, despite having something monumentally important.
But whatever, its not even worth that much since we already have a bunch of good open source engines that are way better
Anthony Cox
Yeah read that one, but stuff doesn't really add up.
Couldn't have lost it in 2000, since that's not 2 weeks after going gold as the article suggest, I know it says the date of the article is 2000, but that must be wrong or they're reporting from soemthing years earlier, since Starcraft was released in 1998.
>When asked how long it would be before the Starcraft team could come up the game anew, a spokesperson said it was too early to tell, but the team hoped to show a partial build of the game by the time E3 rolls around this May.
The game was released in march 1998, so if they'd only aimed to have a partial build for e3 in may this must refer to the 1997 e3.
Makes sense on a whole other level now that Starcraft was delayed so much.
Thomas Martin
red.dit faggotry
Juan Perry
Zoomer here. What's so special about a game going gold? Why was it on just one master disc?
Dominic James
>Sure, we sent the gold disk out buggy as all heck, but enough was enough.
What did they mean by this?
Nolan Bell
>w-we'll patch it?
Jayden King
The law doesn’t work like that. You would have to prove that in court(there are certain checkboxes your argument needs to go through before it actually becomes what you say it is). Would you be brave enough to take on Blizzard’s legal team in court?
Jose Collins
A game going "gold" means it's the final compiled version that was sent to the disc manufacturer for pressing and shipping, so it would be a 100% version complete source code of StarCraft since it was the source code that was used for the gold copy.
Jace Robinson
Source code should be made available not to copy or to sell but to learn from. How do you expect the next generation to do any better.
Jordan Jenkins
It's fun to be mad
Michael Carter
You're right. The article is dated April 18, but the article itself says it was on April 1.
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Holy fuck, this article was just an April Fools'.
Joshua Martin
How exactly does suing some random guy going to bring back their precious game? It won't . cats out of the bag. Guy can also just keep all of his money in bitcoin
Ethan Torres
Why did this guy even have a source code again?
Why was the source code stored in a CD?
Ayden Bennett
When you have access to the original source code you could just fix it/update it yourself.
Not a crazy concept user...
Jeremiah Morgan
The disc manufacturer compiles a game before burning it?
Josiah Campbell
Remember that April first is also the turning of a business quarter. A lot of stories like that are often mistaken as jokes but the horrible thing is that a lot of them are real. It's the perfect time to make an announcement like that for this very reason.
Isaiah Baker
From a german magazine issue from 1997, june.
If it was recorded months before that maybe it could be the original stuff, otherwise it's the early parts of the 2nd iteration.
youtube.com
One interested thing is that flying units didn't hover mostly in place, but flew around to shoot.
Benjamin Walker
Back in the day every bootlegger had a cd cover printer. Buy a beer and get Britney Spears new album for free.
The copies of WoW were used for multiboxing which is okay as long as you don't use third party tools to enhance the game with it and were put in the the picture to try and enhance the autencity of the story.
Wyatt James
The manufacturer? No. The developer would compile the game THEN give it to the manufacturer, but this was the source code that would have been used for that.
Kevin Cruz
Patch 1.04
>Shuttle: Increased build time
>Reaver: Increased build time
>Robotics Facility: Increased build time
>Robotics Support Bay: Increased cost to 150 minerals, 100 gas
The greatest nerf in history
Jose Turner
the start of tesagi
Gabriel Smith
go drink some bleach, shit for brains
Henry Sullivan
Not true. If he didn’t sign an NDA, nor receive monetary compensation for leaking it, he would be untouchable.
William Flores
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Brayden Gomez
You’re so fucking stupid that it hurts
Sebastian Smith
big dropships
Carson Jenkins
I meant to post this image with that comment.
Looks like firebat had a double attack earlier.
Zachary Rogers
How does someone this retarded get something like this?
Daniel Gonzalez
what did it cost?
Carter Sanders
Source ports, unrestricted modding, learning opportunity for programmers. ect
Liam Morris