Id Software and Activision Wolfenstein Source

An enthusiastic Anonymous Coward writes: "Id Software and Activision released the sources of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Single-player and multiplayer included. Unbelievable! Another great surprise from Id Software!" Update: 04/14 15:19 GMT by T : Note: don't get your hopes up -- these are the sources for the game code, not the engine.

Comments

Re:We are lucky,

[Rhinobird]

Actually, I put the blame for Columbine on the drugs those 2 were taking...intereesting article on the subject here.

Re:Low Quality

[Anonymous Coward]

Once again, the stuff Timothy posts is almost always inaccurate, out of date, totally wrong, or all of the above.

Don't expect any less than the best!

Re:Low Quality

[Thing 1]

In its current state, I am very glad I'm not paying a cent for /. access. Stuff like this posting really brings down the average content quality big time.

At the point I am posting this, your post currently has 5 replies. Mine is #6.

My belief is that such "mistakes" have historically garnered a lot more activity. Hence it is in Slashdot's best interest to continue making "mistakes" in order to keep activity high. The more posts per article, the theory goes, the more eyeballs viewed the ad(s) at the top, so they can charge more.

It's always about the money. And I agree -- the mistakes are easily catchable (duplicate postings), juvenile (witness 4/1/02), and irritating (the headline for this article is just ambiguous enough to make you want to read the damn thing).

The worst part? Slashdot is addictive; although they're not getting money directly from me in the form of a subscription, they are getting money from me indirectly in the form of page views, which cost the advertisers more; and posts, which probably cost the advertisers more than a page view. So even though I'll most likely never subscribe, my activity is still helping make them money. And if it educates/entertains me in the meantime, well, that's cool.

My point? Don't worry about it. If the quality has gone that far downhill, we'd start seeing .sig lines hawking alternative news discussion sites at the same frequency as we're seeing the "Great Slashdot Blackout" coming up the week of April 21(ish). But Slashdot is Heroinware ; there's plenty of us junkies keeping stats up.