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There have been multiple attacks like this and it seems the stolen code is usually made public in the end. I presume people will look at it and reuse some conce
by miav 5y ago
There have been multiple attacks like this and it seems the stolen code is usually made public in the end. I presume people will look at it and reuse some concepts and I wonder if this could lead to the technical state of the industry becoming better as a whole.
- eh9 5y agoWhen you consider how prone to patents the gaming industry can be, (and the fact that this is EA), I would be very careful before reusing concepts from here.
- barbecue_sauce 5y agoI don't think EA has any tech that's sufficiently advanced over something like Unreal Engine, which is already source available. It's at least not perceptible in the games they publish.
- permo-w 5y agoMaybe I’m being naïve, but that seems naïve. EA is a very well-funded and complex company with a lot of fingers in a lot of gaming pies. To assume that none of their code is cutting edge or advanced seems unlikely I could be entirely wrong though
- m12k 5y agoIn general the problem in the game industry isn't that people don't know better ways to structure their code, but that they are under extreme pressure to ship and get absolutely no time to refactor. Between GDC presentations and published computer graphics papers, the game industry is actually quite open about sharing its best ideas.
- barbecue_sauce 5y agoOr SIGGRAPH for that matter.