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Why re release my 2008 game as a remaster in 2023 if Sven in Sweden already patched the (open) source with QOL changes and provided higher texture mods. It doe
by cianuro_ 3y ago
Why re release my 2008 game as a remaster in 2023 if Sven in Sweden already patched the (open) source with QOL changes and provided higher texture mods.
It does cut on future dumb re releases :)
- edflsafoiewq 3y agoEmulators have given that forever. It does not seem to have stopped re-releases.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoLeaked doesn’t equal open. It’s likely a crime to own a copy, and it’s definitely a crime to distribute it.
- Takennickname 3y agoNo way!
- ZoomerCretin 3y agoThey filed a lawsuit against the engineers behind the reverse engineering of GTA III/VC who published their work on GitHub. To strengthen their own legal position and to combat the obvious argument that "You abandoned this and had no intention to profit further from it", Rockstar/Take-Two paid for the quickest, dirtiest, shoddiest port that was put out within a month of their lawsuit being filed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_The_Trilogy_%E2%80%93_The_Definitive_Edition#Reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_The_Trilogy_... > from the POV of management, a leak of the source might prevent a future re-release, which cuts into future potential profits! In the aftermath of the backlash from their shoddy legal engineering project, they decided to not remaster other games: https://kotaku.com/gta-iv-remastered-red-dead-redemption-canceled-rockstar-1849142371 https://kotaku.com/gta-iv-remastered-red-dead-redemption-can...
- breakingcups 3y agoIt's rather the other way around, they'd been working on the remasters for a while and were completely blindsided by the publishing of the re3 / reVC source code, which promised to be a better option than their own remasters could be. This scared them shitless and led to the lawsuit.