I'm not well versed in C&C, but it's always good to see more games open sourced.

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[–] 212 points 2 years ago* (4 children)
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    [–] 156 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    No matter what you think of EA, this is fantastic news.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Perhaps why this feels like them trying to save face.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Totally makes sense, considering the remaster was perfect. It was just “multiplayer works, we redid the sprites and audio and tweaked the engine to get rid of some of the bugs. Also hit space for original graphics” or whatever the button was. It was everything an OG C&C remaster needed IMO. I would love to see the same with some of these titles, but now that they’re open source it gives the opportunity for better fan made forks, so I’m all for it.

    Edit: and forgot to mention the best part, EA didn’t force their launcher with the remaster or steam editions. They are purely steam games, which is a huge win

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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Open sourcing old games is awesome for video game preservation.

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  • [–] 75 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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    I think the old Westwood dev they put in charge of the franchise just doesn't have any oversight.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That would be a completely legendary move if the dev hired by EA just said "fuck it, I'm open-sourcing this shit!"

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

    To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game

    Was expecting a catch. Still good for modding I guess

    Anyone know if this is a technologically-enforced “must” or just a “pretty please”?

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  • [–] [S] 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Holy shit, EA did something.... Good? I did not have that on my 2025 bingo card. So, what's the catch? There has to be a catch, right?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    This doesn't release any copyright work in the game. So you will need to go through and remove any sprites, images, audio, etc that is copyright. Which means you will need to own a copy of the game (to have a right to the copyright usage) to use any binary produced from THIS source.

    Additionally, it indicates that you must include in any derivative that the source of your code is from the EA drop here.

    Outside of that, it is GPLv3. Of course it has hard dependency on DirectX 5.0. So a fully free version will need to redo those parts. Also the code is very MS VC++ heavy. Don't expect gcc to build you a binary.

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    [–] 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I'm ready for a zero hour remake!

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    EA ? Did I read right ?

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Old games being open sourced is a trend I can get behind.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    Mmmmm pre-standard C++

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I hope everyone's SSDs have enough SPACE

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    This is a momentous event. I only wish it had Red Alert 2 in it.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Well I'm very excited to see the injection of life this hopefully gives c&c modding

    I wonder how many of the old guard are still around, I'm glad the cncnet project is still going strong

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Broken clock

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Is Tiberian Sun included!!!??

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Fuck EA but cool move - if they keep being not shit for long enough I might consider their products again.

    Doubt they can keep it up.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Now if only they open-sourced the SAGE engine, then we'd be all happy

    The engine is highly optimized & produces great visuals, Of course there IS OpenSAGE

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