It was Slashdotted, so I (foolishly, I admit) believed the bullshit summary.
So, the source is already GPLd; what's being sold is the content, trademarks and servers. 150K Euros for some models seems rather steep, so there better be some big iron in the deal.
And its interface still sucks, and people stick with it because of cognitive dissonance, not merit. Open source tends to do UIs very, very badly, and a game is almost nothing but a user interface.
Your hypothetical game, like Ryzom, is a pig in a poke. Until we have the source code, we can't judge how much it's worth. Personally, I think 150,000 Euros is a lot for soon-to-be abandonware software, but if other people want to pay to make it available to me, well, good luck to them.
Also, it begs the question: if the bazaar model is so great, how come the only games that it's produced are cheap knock-offs and clones of popular five or ten year old closed source games?
Open source development of abandoned commercial games doesn't even seem to achieve much: WarZone 2100 was open sourced 2 years ago, and all that's been achieved in that time is a POSIX port, plus the addition of some crash bugs.
This kind of pokes the argument that open source promotes diversity in the eye with a sharp stick.
As an ex professional games developer, I think that the open source guys clamouring to get their paws on Ryzom are in for a shock, if they think it's going to be easy to adopt, adapt and improve it. In my experience, successful games development means running the project with a fist of iron, and ruthlessly preventing developers from falling noff into fugue states where they get obessed with their own little area of navel lint. It will be very interesting to see how Ryzom develops (if at all) after it's open sourced.
Why waste our time with producing something like "oil-based gasoline" when a diesel engine will run fine and dandy on the oil that we can just squeeze out of the end product of about half a billion years worth of plant evolution?
Biologists and architects will get us over the hump, not physicists.
How about I go fetch a bucketfull of the liquid from the nearest ocean, and you drink it all down and then (when and if you get out of hospital), you can explain to me again how "water" is so plentiful.
You must be new here, Mr UID 2679. If the "editors" don't bother to read articles before submitting them, I don't see why we should bother reading them before commenting.
You can pay a low rate of duty on biodiesel that you recover from used waste, but not on fresh vegetable oil that you buy directly for the purpose. That's being challenged. It all about revenue, not about the ecological issues.
It makes you a 'tard. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the statement "a sustainable fusion reaction that produces more energy that it uses", apart from the typo. Now, put the inhaler down, and repeat after me: I will not interrupt when grown-ups are speaking.
And Scarlett Johansson as Arwen, who, you know, is totally in the Hobbit if you just read between the lines a little. Every scene with water, and damp clinging clothes, for example.
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You say "No" as though both can't be true.
It's not important, it just gives me an e-woody watching geeks paying money for old rope.
Cognitive dissonance, #3 of 3.
Cognitive dissonance, #2 of 3.
It was Slashdotted, so I (foolishly, I admit) believed the bullshit summary.
So, the source is already GPLd; what's being sold is the content, trademarks and servers. 150K Euros for some models seems rather steep, so there better be some big iron in the deal.
Cognitive dissonance, #1 of 3.
And its interface still sucks, and people stick with it because of cognitive dissonance, not merit. Open source tends to do UIs very, very badly, and a game is almost nothing but a user interface.
Your hypothetical game, like Ryzom, is a pig in a poke. Until we have the source code, we can't judge how much it's worth. Personally, I think 150,000 Euros is a lot for soon-to-be abandonware software, but if other people want to pay to make it available to me, well, good luck to them.
Also, it begs the question: if the bazaar model is so great, how come the only games that it's produced are cheap knock-offs and clones of popular five or ten year old closed source games?
Open source development of abandoned commercial games doesn't even seem to achieve much: WarZone 2100 was open sourced 2 years ago, and all that's been achieved in that time is a POSIX port, plus the addition of some crash bugs.
This kind of pokes the argument that open source promotes diversity in the eye with a sharp stick.
As an ex professional games developer, I think that the open source guys clamouring to get their paws on Ryzom are in for a shock, if they think it's going to be easy to adopt, adapt and improve it. In my experience, successful games development means running the project with a fist of iron, and ruthlessly preventing developers from falling noff into fugue states where they get obessed with their own little area of navel lint. It will be very interesting to see how Ryzom develops (if at all) after it's open sourced.
You bore me.
Why waste our time with producing something like "oil-based gasoline" when a diesel engine will run fine and dandy on the oil that we can just squeeze out of the end product of about half a billion years worth of plant evolution?
Biologists and architects will get us over the hump, not physicists.
"3/4ths of our planet is covered in [water]"
How about I go fetch a bucketfull of the liquid from the nearest ocean, and you drink it all down and then (when and if you get out of hospital), you can explain to me again how "water" is so plentiful.
You must be new here, Mr UID 2679. If the "editors" don't bother to read articles before submitting them, I don't see why we should bother reading them before commenting.
You can pay a low rate of duty on biodiesel that you recover from used waste, but not on fresh vegetable oil that you buy directly for the purpose. That's being challenged. It all about revenue, not about the ecological issues.
Been here, dodged the tax on that. Police impound cars run on cooking oil.
Old, old news in UKia: Police impound cars run on cooking oil.
If you're so smart, then tell me, what is love?
You are TennSeven - or are ripping him off - and I claim my $5.
== bumper returns next week.
Snake oil?
Apparently it's also illegal to solicit an adult for sex if they happen to type "I AM OWNLY THIRTEEEN LOL!". Shall we discuss Thoughtcrimes now?
In the Audience Participation Version, be sure to yell out "Hi, Glorfindel" every time she appears.
It makes you a 'tard. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the statement "a sustainable fusion reaction that produces more energy that it uses", apart from the typo. Now, put the inhaler down, and repeat after me: I will not interrupt when grown-ups are speaking.
It burnsss ussss.
And Scarlett Johansson as Arwen, who, you know, is totally in the Hobbit if you just read between the lines a little. Every scene with water, and damp clinging clothes, for example.