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I wonder if we'll ever get a San Andreas source code leak/release that would finally debunk or confirm the mystery of Bigfoot. After all these years, I still have hope that it's real...
that has already been debunked. It was the hunger making CJ stomach growl that people mistaked for bigfoot sounds.
bigfoot's biggest achievement was masking his cry as the sound of an empty stomach
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Serious, why would anybody care besides modding community, and maybe GTA Online hackers? No competitor can think there's anything there worth their money and effort.
There are people in Amsterdam that steal bikes only to sell them for 10Eur. I just don’t understand why would anyone do that but I am software dev working remotely it doesn’t make sense in „my world” - it most likely makes sense in someone’s else world.
I hope Somebody figures out the reason for the horrible loading times
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No it's deffinately not as easy as that. You need to manage those servers, manage the updates, security patches, roll out updates to the game server... Because it will need updates because things break or need security updates etc. Managing things like that means it needs to be within the existing infrastructure. Imagine with every old game they just threw up an ec2 and left it rotting, they'd have hundreds of out of…
But what I'm saying is why do they need to install updates? If the only open port is your software, who cares if curl or ssh or whatever is out of date. Worst case, you shut it down if it ever does get compromised, and there was nothing anyone could do with that machine because it was underpowered and firewalled to only allow incoming connections on your game port and no outgoing connections. Unless there's an exploi…
You need, at a very minimum:
— login system that also works with consoles
— persistence for users stats (maybe not for some kinds of games)
— matchmaking service (which really wants a persistence system for SBMM)
— make sure your systems aren't actively being exploited (you don't want to accidentally run a botnet)
— make sure nobody is "hacking" or modding the game (what's the point of keeping the severs up if they're filled with aimhacking bots)
— monitor the services to make sure they're up
— potentially patch the games on multiple platforms if you need to make a backwards-compatible change to fulfill any of the above.
— also potentially update your games if the console vendors make changes to their stacks
I agree that it sucks that the services are being shut down without any alternatives being provided, and I wish there was a way to force the publishers to support them for longer or provide an OSS servers options; but it is definitely not "free" or "easy" to provide these services for years.
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Those lawyers must have had a laugh there and then. Money? Nah, let’s see if they go with toys and clothing from the warehouse.
Publishing it would be breaking the law and exposing themselves to a lawsuit, which they would lose. The swag is nice.
And if you don't make an online post about it you could even anonymously leak it to archive.org or something so at least that game won't be yet another that's lost forever thanks to DRM.
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There are people in Amsterdam that steal bikes only to sell them for 10Eur. I just don’t understand why would anyone do that but I am software dev working remotely it doesn’t make sense in „my world” - it most likely makes sense in someone’s else world.
If you want quick money, you sell things cheap. If you're addicted to drugs and need a quick high, you do easy crimes, and anything that's easy for money (including prostitution).
But I didn’t want to spell out specific examples for stealing source code as the same for bikes to leave it up for readers.
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Well there's two arguments to be made. They 100% gave him the source code in a grab bag of goodies. That's a pretty simple case of he has a right to the disc itself, so he could have just kept it (or resold it) and not published. Them giving him "stuff" was them "buying" the item back, not just them being nice (as you put it). There's also an argument to be made that the code itself does not infringe on their IP, as…
> There's also an argument to be made that the code itself does not infringe on their IP, That’s not how IP works. Blizzard didn’t forfeit their rights to the IP at any point. Even selling them a grab bag of stuff that unintentionally included a copy of the source code doesn’t mean the recipient actually received a legal license to the IP. You can make all the arguments you want, but in the court of law you’re not go…