I'd really love a AAA open source game to come out. It would be really cool to have a community driven development cycle with no real deadlines. Open Source tends to take a bit longer to get going, but the model makes software that really fucking lasts and doesn't start to degrade as the company flounders and lays off half the people who built the core code.
Exactly! And they're will be some senior engineers who are the only ones who know how to use some systems because they designed them 5-10 years ago
I'd really love a AAA open source game to come out. It would be really cool to have a community driven development cycle with no real deadlines. Open Source tends to take a bit longer to get going, but the model makes software that really fucking lasts and doesn't start to degrade as the company flounders and lays off half the people who built the core code.
id before the purchase would open license their engines afer a few years.
all CoD prior to ghosts were based on the quake 3 engine.
Damn, that's actually pretty rad. Didn't know that.
OpenArena is a content restoration mods for Q3 with free assets, might be worth checking out for the nostalgia factor