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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by rangibaby on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:02PM (#23254159)
> One aspect EA might be considering are potential losses in other product lines, say if fans were to expand old games with new campaigns that are better than what EA is offering today.

Valve especially has made a ton of money buying and selling fanmade expansions to their games, way more than they would have by not allowing mods

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Re:EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert ... by harha on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:31AM (#23257600)
Good point, it really depends on how companies decide to look at this topic and what they decide to optimize. The „old“ Microsoft probably wouldn’t have created a platform for Mac devs deploying on Linux as another comment in this thread described.
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