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Why would the leak cause major portions of the engine to need to be rewritten? Seems more likely that it was a convenient excuse.
by ahuth 12y ago
Why would the leak cause major portions of the engine to need to be rewritten?
Seems more likely that it was a convenient excuse.
- balls187 12y agoI don't know. Ask gaben.
- mindslight 12y agoSo he can act interested in my question, invite me for a friendly discussion over coffee, and then arrange to put me in a cage? Seems like a terrible idea. Gosh, Valve must hire great PR. I had completely forgotten their overt evil actions around this incident.
- kenrikm 12y agoit was used as an excuse, the real reason is that Valve is REALLY slow at developing games.
- oblio 12y agoI wouldn't say they're slow. You wouldn't believe the rate they're adding features to Dota 2, for example. I believe that they're actually quite a small crew with very ambitious projects, and they tend to move around a lot.
- k00pa 12y agoMajor parts needed rewrite to not make it so easy to develop cheats for the game. If the hackers would have the source, they would not even need to reverse engineer the engine to build their aimbots/wallhacks.
- orbifold 12y agoThat does make zero sense.
- scj 12y agoIt was a fear years ago when Quake was open sourced [1]. In Valve's case, the programmers probably had to audit all the source code in order to reduce possible exploits. [1] http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=19991226003141 http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=1999122...