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Open RA2 also exists. I think RA2 is significantly better and the peak of what an RTS can be. Say what you want about EA, but they not only tolerated Open RA,
by 999900000999 4mo ago
Open RA2 also exists. I think RA2 is significantly better and the peak of what an RTS can be.
Say what you want about EA, but they not only tolerated Open RA, but they straight up opened sourced the older games.
More publishers need to do this. I wouldn’t even mind a crowdfunding effort( give the proceeds to charity) to release the source for other games.
- totetsu 4mo agoI must have paid for a various copies of RA2 5 times over the years. I imagine they got enough monitization from those old titles.
- LeoPanthera 4mo agoRA2 is still available on Steam, and despite its age runs with only minimal issues on Windows 11. It works on Linux too, but it works a lot better if you add the cnc-ddraw DLL and change the launch options to: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="ddraw=n,b" %command%
- 20k 4mo ago>Say what you want about EA, but they not only tolerated Open RA They also don't have a choice though. There's nothing illegal or actionable about OpenRA. At most EA could have potentially forced them not to refer to CnC on the github, but even then its not clear that that's enforceable
- 999900000999 4mo agoThey could still send out cease and desist letters. GitHub doesn’t have the best track record standing up to those.
- 20k 4mo agoSure but then it'd just be hosted somewhere else
- 999900000999 4mo agoWhat's wrong with letting EA be the good guy here. They definitely didn't need to open source it.
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- Zardoz84 4mo agoKirov reporting!
- stymaar 4mo ago> Open RA2 also exists Does it? I couldn't find anything like that.
- mawise 4mo agoI turned up the following in my searching: https://cncnet.org/red-alert-2 https://cncnet.org/red-alert-2 https://github.com/OpenRA/ra2 https://github.com/OpenRA/ra2