Pirated video games SOURCE CODE (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So there are multiple sites&groups that pirate video games especially on PC. I was wondering if there are places on the internet where you find source code for games especially the highly modifiable ones like Half Life 2/Portal and Skyrim. Or groups that crack into the source code of games (or even software in general), not only for PC maybe PS, XBox or mobile too, and share it. I just wanted to see some code samples of games or their engines, maybe I get hooked into video game design. Shout out to Valve for sharing a lot about the creation of Half Life 1

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[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was once at a talk by someone in that company and he straight up said that open sourcing it was a mistake. I assume because that meant they couldn't sell us a thousand versions of it like Skyrim.

No word of whether its ongoing popularity was at all caused by open sourcing it.

[-] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

There's no way going open source has done anything but help Doom. I guarantee they've made more money from people buying their old games for the WADs to play with source ports and mods than they've lost money to things like Freedoom.

[-] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

The engine is Open Source, not the game itself. You still need to buy it.

[-] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The game and the engine are both open source. The game's assets just aren't freely available, so you still need an official WAD or an asset replacement pack like Freedoom.