• JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 days

    Title is inaccurate, it was not released as open source software, it was released as Free software. This shit’s GPL3!

    • EarMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20 hours

      GPL3 might not be the most permissive license out there, but it is an open source license.

        • forestbeasts@pawb.socialEnglish
          7 hours

          Clarity. Personally we treat “open source” and “free software” (in the FOSS sense) as synonyms, and “free software” could easily be used (by someone who doesn’t know FOSS context) for something that’s just not paid.

          So saying “open source” makes it clear that it’s /actually open source/ and not just “not paid”.

            • forestbeasts@pawb.socialEnglish
              3 hours

              That makes sense for FOSSheads, but regular people might not get it!

              (also fun bonus of calling stuff open source: it annoys the “permissive licenses aren’t REALLY FREE!!” people. :3)

              • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3 hours

                Well they need to learn, and if they refuse, we put them in the FOSS reeducation camp!

    • Scratch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 days

      They fucked around with DayZ pretty good.

      • Glacial progress for a long, long time.
      • Releasing the Livonia DLC for a half-made game. That pissed me off real nice. (And I’m a guy who bought the Supporter Edition of Arma 3)

      To be fair, they have acted well since then. So my hackles have settled down.

      • Canadian_Cabinet @lemmy.caEnglish
        2 days

        Wait what’s wrong with Contact? I absolutely loved that campaign and Livonia is by far my favorite 2035 map after Malden

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 days

    I played this a handful of years back, and I was surprised by how well it holds up. In other areas, it super doesn’t hold up. It’s got all of the presentation you’d expect from a modern action game with all of the jank that came along with ancient PC games, and it was charming for it. One song during a scene transition came off as anachronistic, and it’s because it was! They had to change out a few of the songs due to licenses expiring, and the song they picked as a replacement postdated the game’s original release, which was super jarring in a fun way I’d never experienced before.