I saw it and it was honestly hideous - piss-poor variable names loaded with gotos a real dearth of comments at best if I remember rightly some of the files were very poorly name and I can remember, although I don't have it now, that there was a strange mix of C and C++ in places. I can see no good reason for EA to listen to your petition when they have nothing to gain and a lot to lose by releasing it.Īs interesting as it could be, I can see no real and tangible merit to it.Ĭarmack released the source code for Quake II (IIRC) and Quake III. On the negative side, it opens the door even wider to competition and clones, exposes proprietary information and technology, reveals exploits, potentially reduces the IP value, and introduces some unnecessary legal work. So there are very few people indeed who would benefit. Most people who have experience enough to use it will already have enough skill and experience to implement the game as good or better than the source would expose. The only benefit is that a few geeks who don't know much about game programming would enjoy looking at it and learning from it. If they do exist, they are probably on tape in a storage closet and covered with dust.Īssuming they do exist and are available, I can see no compelling reason for the company to release it.
They might have archives of long-retired servers, but it seems unlikely. After a decade, there is a chance the original source is no longer (easily) available.
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