I’d love to see that but realistically I don’t ever see it happening.
Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition
chunes@lemmy.world 14 hours agoI mean releasing it under a license like GPL.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Because then anyone could fork it and redistribute the game which I presume they don’t want.
It would be sweet for us if they did, but I can see why they don’t want to do that.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Things like Minetest exist.
chunes@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Not really. They could distribute source ports of the game, but you’d still have to buy the game in order to make use of them.
sus@programming.dev 13 hours ago
That’s definitely not how GPL specifically works, and the small amount of sales of doom 2 today is not at all comparable to the massive amount of minecraft sales and minecraft-related microtransactions that microsoft is raking in.
C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
What proportion of those sales are for Java edition? This sounds like an attempt to make mods and therefore java edition into a more popular/appealing product. They know that most users are not going to do anything with source code.
chunes@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Open-sourcing Doom increased, rather than decreased sales.
Doom also went open source long before there were any sequels, and while it was still the hottest shit in PC gaming.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
Fork it and use your own texture and sound pack doesn’t sound like much work tbh. Any major modpack could just redistribute the game as a fork and it would be awesome. But Microsoft probably don’t want that.