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Doom 3 Source Code To Be Released This Year

Posted by timothy on from the carmack-is-awesome-and-I-don't-even-play-games dept.

An anonymous reader writes "John Carmack just confirmed during his QuakeCon 2011 keynote that the source code to Doom 3 will be released this year. The source drop will follow the release of their Rage game in October. Carmack has also challenged other game developers to release their old source code."

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  1. Re:Old hardware by cduffy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Steam's DRM stays the hell out of my way.

    I want to play a single-player game offline? I can do that.

    I want to install a game on multiple machines? I can do that.

    I want to mod my single-player game? I can do that.

    Most DRM schemes are hated because they break things -- they stop you from attaching debuggers to even single-player games, they encrypt files so you can't modify them, they don't let you do extra installs when you have a legitimate reason to do so, they conflict with other tools. Steam, on the other hand, provides just enough DRM to get publishers to accept it... but stays the hell out of the way of the person trying to enjoy the property they paid for. As a pragmatist, I'm fine with that.