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Re:Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? by beebeepka on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:21AM (#29673339)
Please don't do this.

The premise sounds good but some of the best things in gaming were conceived as mods. Team fortress was a Quake mod. Now, I personally don't blike moba games but Dota also started as a mod. Not to mention Quake OSP/CPMA/Defrag, UTComp, HLDM, Black Mesa and countless others.

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Re:Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? by McWobbleston on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:25AM (#29674322)
It's really unfortunate how unfriendly games are to modding both technically and legally today. We've certainly missed out on a lot of potential
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Re:Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore? by beebeepka on Friday December 24, 2021 @12:39PM (#29675613)
In a previous life, I used to work for a game retailer. I couldn't believe EA was charging 20 euro for a handful of maps and that some people were willing to pay for their own community's destruction thanks to these map packs acting as gatekeepers.

Mods = love

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