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You’ll have to expand on that because your comment makes absolutely no case for why an open source game would do any better.

aflag 4y ago
I share the same feeling as OP. Open source games can essentially live forever and others can pick up where the previous entity left off. For instance, starcraft 2 still has big mass of players, even though it's on life support (servers die sometimes, bugs go unfixed for years/forever, maps are not updated as frequently anymore, etc). That's one aspect, the other aspect is that the opensource base can end up becoming the reference implementation of a genre. It can become a more sustainable environment, where people are trying to improve the game (and get paid through the organisations that run tournaments and such) rather than create a competitor.
- DangitBobby 4y ago
  That's all well and good, but you'd have to make the case that players' adoption would be significantly affected by whether the game is open source, and I can't think of any plausible causal mechanism, let alone evidence, of that.
  - aflag 4y ago
    Very few games are open sourced, specially AAA games. So, it won't be easy to find evidence. I think the point is more that it's more sustainable and it can keep up indefinitely.
  - CyanBird 4y ago
    Open sourcing the game opens the possibility of different groups changing the game in different ways and directions to optimize it for viewership and entertainment, the fact that it is open sourced would lead to different groups optimizing it in different ways and creating competition in these niches Mentioned elsewhere is the case of Kespa vs Blizzard. Kespa would run starcraft Broodwar like a reality TV show where the entertainment of thhe viewer would come first to demerit of the competition (think added randomness into the game state), whereas Blizzard would strip the reality tv angle and randomness and focus near soly on the actual sport/competition angle rather than optimize viewer entertainment
- ilyt 4y ago
  Game doesn't need to be opensource, just moddable "You need to pay us for a copy but can modify it however you want" type of license from game company would work entirely fine
  - antifa 4y ago
    That opens the door for everybody to have macros/bots that change the game from a mouse destroying click-fest to just bot-herding. Actually very cool on it's own, but difficult not to categorize as cheating if it's not intended to be a programming competition. The meta of malware clients and rare clients with the best bots will be interesting.

aflag 4y ago

I share the same feeling as OP. Open source games can essentially live forever and others can pick up where the previous entity left off. For instance, starcraft 2 still has big mass of players, even though it's on life support (servers die sometimes, bugs go unfixed for years/forever, maps are not updated as frequently anymore, etc). That's one aspect, the other aspect is that the opensource base can end up becoming the reference implementation of a genre. It can become a more sustainable environment, where people are trying to improve the game (and get paid through the organisations that run tournaments and such) rather than create a competitor.

DangitBobby 4y ago
That's all well and good, but you'd have to make the case that players' adoption would be significantly affected by whether the game is open source, and I can't think of any plausible causal mechanism, let alone evidence, of that.
- aflag 4y ago
  Very few games are open sourced, specially AAA games. So, it won't be easy to find evidence. I think the point is more that it's more sustainable and it can keep up indefinitely.
- CyanBird 4y ago
  Open sourcing the game opens the possibility of different groups changing the game in different ways and directions to optimize it for viewership and entertainment, the fact that it is open sourced would lead to different groups optimizing it in different ways and creating competition in these niches Mentioned elsewhere is the case of Kespa vs Blizzard. Kespa would run starcraft Broodwar like a reality TV show where the entertainment of thhe viewer would come first to demerit of the competition (think added randomness into the game state), whereas Blizzard would strip the reality tv angle and randomness and focus near soly on the actual sport/competition angle rather than optimize viewer entertainment
ilyt 4y ago
Game doesn't need to be opensource, just moddable "You need to pay us for a copy but can modify it however you want" type of license from game company would work entirely fine
- antifa 4y ago
  That opens the door for everybody to have macros/bots that change the game from a mouse destroying click-fest to just bot-herding. Actually very cool on it's own, but difficult not to categorize as cheating if it's not intended to be a programming competition. The meta of malware clients and rare clients with the best bots will be interesting.