>some redditard finds the original starcraft sourcecode >in

I imagine most of em would kill their mothers for reddit karma

>>60222362
Damn. If nothing else that would have been cool to look through. Fingers crossed he ripped that disc image.

>>60222362
Holy fucking kek

>>60222375
>Fingers crossed he ripped that disc image.
he didn't even know what the phrase "source code" implied, I doubt he even knows which button opens his computer's cd tray

>>60222362
What the fuck, I actually hate Reddit now. I thought they were just a meme, like a friendly rivalry or something.

>>60222362
Reddit is just waiting to be replaced by the next big attention whoring platform. They are scum of the earth users on par with cam girls.

>>60222425
It's the worst white knighting, social justice, and moralfagottry platform to ever exist.

If all active Reddit contributors were summarily executed, free software would live and consumerism would die.

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and this is why we hate reddit newfags

>>60222362
we had this thread last night you fuck

>>60222455
redditors are only into "social justice" as far as it won't affect their point scores, the whole site is a racist and sexist circlejerk. they just don't say the nigger word unless they're on 4chan

>>60222362
Thats insane. SC 1 ran real smooth, no crashes. All in C and CPP.

What an idiot

>>60222490
there were definitely crashes but very uncommon

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>>60222362
FUCKING HELL WHY

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT YOU FLAMING FAGGOT

>>60222362
I've honestly stopped expecting any kind of quality out of people and I was entirely disgusted by him returning it.

>>60222372
says the tripcode user :)

Tell me /g/, if you had this disc and hadn't told anyone, what would you do?

>>60222519
Must suck being so self-conscious that you cant use a trip because you're afraid people might associate what you say with your identity.

>>60222528
Pastebin everything

>>60222490
I thought Starcraft was almost entirely written in C++. I swear there was an interview that was done at one point where they said that they regretted it, because if it had been written in C, it probably would have ran on a 486 instead of needing a Pentium.

>>60222528

break it

>>60222528
Send it to Julian Assange.

>>60222362
>/g/ thinks it's fine to steal proprietary source code but they will be mad if you steal GPL licensed code

I wanna die

>>60222535
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

Must suck being so self-absorbed that you use a a trip-code so that people might think the content of your posts has anything at all to do with your identity.

>>60222528
Make a copy of everything to go over because I'm trying to learn C++, then somehow release it.

Also should note that you can download Starcraft and Brood War for free from Blizzard themselves, so I don't think Blizzard cares about it as much as people think they do.

>>60222528
rip and release publicly, sell physical to some korean for his starcraft collection

>>60222556
KEK

>>60222462
someone should give this bitch a burger.

>>60222568
>abolitionists think it's okay to confiscate slaves but they will be mad if you enslave a black person

They could've made RTS great again

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>>60222556
Fuck, this actually might have been the best idea.

>find stolen source code disc for 20 year old game
>post it online/try to sell it
>it's a topic of interest for a while
>get sued by blizzard
or
>do the morally correct thing and return it
>receive $250 blizzard store credit, a bunch of pc peripherals and stuff, and an all expenses paid trip to blizzcon
>probably save a copy
>4chan gets mad for like 3 days

He doesn't even care about the game, why would he risk anything for the internet?

/g/ - Niggers of the Coding World

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>>60222528
torrents and archive.org my dude

Did he at least make a backup copy of the ISO image?

>>60222687
>>60222403

>>60222643
honestly this, even if anybody wanted to do something with the source code they'd get sued into oblivion.

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>>60222362
>250 monopoly money
>trip to autist convention
I knew blizzard were jews but this is embarrassing

>>60222706
Even if he knew about the potential,I imagine he'd probably take the safe, ethical, and profitable route rather than the internet pleasing route.

>>60222725
>ethical
>profitable
ok you're just embarrassing yourself now

>>60222556
He would just make shitty tweets about it though, without actually releasing anything.

Uploading it to something like mega anonmyously then giving links here to spread it as much as possible is the best choice.

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>>60222528
>copy contents of disk
>destroy disk
>park outside McDonalds
>connect to wifi
>upload to TPB and Mega and post the links across the internet and IRC
>leave and encrypt data
>watch the Blizztard butthurt explode across the internet while I masturbate furiously to the spectacle I alone caused
I honestly have no idea how that fucking faggot had the nerve to return it, it blows my fucking mind. Must have been an utterly mindcucked brainlet beyond description.

And anyone who says they'd publish the code then return the disk for Blizzbux is stupid, they'd absolutely know it was you who published the shit across the internet and sue your ass to death after getting all your personal details.

surely that couldn't have been the only disc around

>>60222764
but it was right there, we (i.e. the public outside blizzard) had it, but it fell into the wrong hands
similarly there are 49 xbox dev towers left, doesn't make losing the one that could have already been put to use any less tragic while we wait for another to leak into the market

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>>60222362
This irritated the living fuck out of me too
>have blizzard lawyers knocking down your door
>give it back because he was scared
Everyone should have been mad as fuck
Instead
>in a PR spin, they send him some toys and give him a ticket to blizzcon
>everybody is so happy clamoring about how good blizzard is

That fucking disc had so much potential and he gave it away what the fuck

>>60222528
Copied it, then sent it to based as fuck Jason Scott at Archive.org
He would have ripped it and put it on Archive.org for free. If blizzard would have complained, he would have pulled it down, but it would have been archived forever and it would have created enough buzz that people would have downloaded it a bunch. It would have circulated through torrents and other such means.

All for not I guess

>>60222528
>>60222556
Send it to James O'Keefe

>>60222535
You tripfags are the cancer of /g/.
See >>60219961

>>60222600
fatass detected

>>60222362
How did this chucklefuck even get a hold of this?

>>60222362
>not just making a copy and taking bids
holy fuck i hate reddit

>>60222403
>he didn't even know what the phrase "source code" implied
So he is a confirmed fucking retarded brainlet, Jesus Christ.

Why must all good things end up inevitably in the hands of unworthy people? Talk about pearls before swine, I seriously think most people who actually know how to use a computer would have uploaded the data. $250 in Blizzard Monopoly money is fucking nothing, what a waste.

>>60222362
Literal retard is on Blizzard's radar forever now in case he somehow makes something remotely similar to starcraft.

Good goy

>>60222643
>probably save a copy
Again, the guy didn't even know what "source code" meant, he probably didn't even know you could copy data from disks to a hard drive.

He fucking blew it, it's over.

>>60222833
David Duke is probably a better choice desu

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>>60222535
Holy fuck, how special does your little ass need to feel that you try to fucking socially shame people for not being a faggot like you and having a trip on a fucking anonymous image board

end your worthless life

>>60222876
The blizzard lawyers probably put the fear of god into him, made him sign some legalese about it getting out and somesuch.

He is a fucking retard, did he expect anything else when posting it on the internet for fake internet points?

>>60222362
I don't want to know how sad your life has to be if you have to keep reposting the same thread, on literary every board related to games/technology.

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Can someone explain to me (a retard) the value of a source code from a 1997 computer game?

>>60222848
Accidentally got it on eBay buying old CDs for blizzard games.

>>60222602
that doesnt even make sense, man.

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>>60222362
ehhhhhhh.... guys?

The code is old, using old libs, on old platforms... some kid rewrote the whole game in HTML FFS and got a DMCA for it. This source code is fucking worthless aside from arbitrary nostalgia value? Who really gives a fuck right? The sprites are open source the AI is open source all this shit is OS at this point or at least completely re-implemented.

>>60222953
>samefag
HTML5, you know what i mean though

>>60222568
There's literally nothing wrong with selling free software.

>>60222568
>>60222982
*cough*Barracuda Inc *cough*
*cough*literally every product *cough*
*cough*mandriva*cough*

>>60222928
>a 1997 computer game
It's literally one of the most iconic video games ever made, that's why.

>>60222844
Newfag.

>>60222362
Is this the thread where we pretend to be internet badasses who would have done something different?

>>60223014
this differs slightly to me. many iconic things are such because they have some original aspect that is difficult to reproduce. a Faberge egg for example. Only so much of them exist and they attest to the quality of the manufactures long since gone. This code can essentially be reproduced with ease and re-done in a simpler and more elegant fashion. the egg is still in an echelon of skill far beyond its time, is this code really of the same caliber? or is it using libraries and methods considered standard in its time period? I doubt the codebase itself 'innovative' in any fashion--most likely borrowing from the many other shared state multiplayer games at the time.

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Pardon me for being a clueless dumbfuck about this topic, but what about this source code makes it so significant? Does it have something important or are people more interested in it for nostalgia related purposes?

>>60223103
There was a map to the Holy Grail hidden in the source code.

>>60222928
almost nothing. you could have a read through it if you were curious but you won't be able to do anything with it anyways.

>>60223119
>First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

/g/ programming challenge: write a function to throw the holy hand grenade following this sentences logic

>>60222362
go back to /v/ retard

>>60222536
Would be taken down through dmca

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>>60222362
>>60222462
>>60222490
>>60222510
>>60222717
>>60222761
>>60222806
>>60222865
>>60223014

>return cd
>get free shit


>leak cd anonymously
>get jack shit
>neckbeards have a read through parts of it and MAYBE write some jerkoff articles about it
>none of them can actually do anything with it due to lack of ability & blizz dcma

really disassembles my binaries

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>>60223192
you just come here and take away our dreams when we already have nothing

>>60223154
I'm so glad that the DMCA has perfectly stopped people illicitly copying digital information.

>>60222900
thank you

>>60223192
>wanting to take fame for it
wouldn't seeing what great things people could make with it be good enough? Why would you need to yell: "Yeah Im the guy who leaked it!", what good would that do?

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>>60222362
It says here that Reddit users belong in ovens.

>>60223291
Nobody can do a god damn thing with it because blizzard actually does watch out for user modifications/reproductions of their IP. The original starcraft is old enough and has been studied enough so that anyone who really wanted to could probably recreate it in its entirety, which obviously people have attempted. You probably don't remember them though because they've all been stomped out by DCMA. There is not a single percentage of a chance that anyone would be able to do anything with the actual source code.

Dumb question but why would I need the source code for a game that costs like ten bucks and was released 18 years ago? What's to stop them from releasing the source code anyways? I would like it for personal use but compiling it would be a bitch anyways, especially if it requires linker and all that crap. Just opening a project in C# written in VS 2010 with an old frame work takes forever to do and if anything was removed in the newer version of GAS from that framework library good luck getting anything do that afternoon. I can't imagine using a C or C++ dev kit from your off the mill Google ide search.

I once tried to compile a copy of Ms Office 2 or 3.something from 1992 and I couldn't even find/figure out where the source code was to make their C gui user interface. In Java it's like 2 libraries, jframe and something else, but yea the code made zero sense. And worst of all were the comments. They were almost 100% cryptic like " function call to the event search find."

I was expecting too tier work and comments like " This function was created for handling all exceptions when the user types something into the search field under the file menu."

Anyways StarCraft is a bitch to install and SC2 is probably the only real reason to build a gaming PC imo.

>>60223343
SC2 the only reason to build a gaming PC? Plebeian RTS taste.

>>60223343
Want to know how I know you weren't alive 18 years ago?

>>60223192
>get free shit
According to the redditor, Blizzard gave him nothing just a "thanks"

>>60223343
>that costs like ten bucks
It's gratis now.

He is selfish for keeping this out of the hands of programmers- who can bring joy to hundreds of thousands of people - and instead put it in the hands of a crummy company that relies on rehashing other ideas, never to use that code again.

So much could have been made with that source code, new games, mods, even cheats and he nullified that for a handshake and 200 blizzbucks and nothing else. This leddit cuck has messed with the wrong people. I hope he gets into a car crash.

Shame on him.

>>60223100

The important question to ask is: how many AAA titles have source code that people can view to see how the hell they did it?

>>60223558

The only one I can remember right now is Quake 3.

>>60223192
>free shit
>monopoly money and cheap toys
i don't even like starcraft and i would had still published it. also internet is full of illegal stuff. few starcraft mods arent gonna make a difference.

>>60223568

Exactly. Now imagine if all of these old games that aren't really making money anymore went open source, and noobie game developers got to see how shit used to be made.

>>60223573

Look, I mean, the collective approval of /g/ is definitely worth a lot less than "monopoly money and cheap toys"

>>60223103
A rare case of social people condemning the antisocial, something that decreased in numbers since Reagan's election....

>>60222362
You think Blizzard wouldn't hunt him down? He already has one check for posting on Reddit. He probably doesn't even have a dog or curtains to protect himself if he uploaded it.

At least he didn't try to get money from them in exchange for the CD. Sony and Valve got the Feds for people trying that.

>>60223103
I heard it's probably because Blizzard is releasing an 4K version of Starcraft soon. But hell, how many companies would let their source codes get out in the open?

>>60223618

Do you know how trivial it is to upload something to the Internet without it being able to be traced back to yourself? If they did not know he had the disk before, he would have had several options for uploading it to some file host and distributing it to the general public.

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>>60223433
He got a free pass to blizzcon with full travel expenses and lunch with devs. Also all this shit. How does it feel to be fake news?

>>60222455
Irrational hatred of camgirls

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>>60223658
>Diablo 3 bottle opener

>>60223649
Probably beyond the capabilities of someone who doesn't even know what the words "source code" mean.

>>60222798
>xbox dev towers
don't forget that a reddit fag also ruined one those

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/5qewph/refurbished_and_old_xbox_development_kit_and_made/

>>60223658
Oh, a ticket to blizzcon and about 70 dollars worth of le gamer gear shit

totally worth throwing away the only chance at the source code being released to the public who would have been grateful for such a gift, it could have revolutionized the game and breathed new life into it far more than blizzard has done

>>60223658
What is that kawaii plush and where can I get one?

>>60223698
>it could have revolutionized the game and breathed new life into it
retard

>>60223698
The 4K version isn't going to turn the game upside down?

god I hope this redditor dies, this was the one FUCKING SOURCE CODE CD IN EXISTENCE OUTSIDE OF BLIZZARD AND HE INCINERATED IT

>>60223698
>totally worth throwing away the only chance at the source code being released to the public who would have been grateful for such a gift, it could have revolutionized the game and breathed new life into it far more than blizzard has done
The fuck? He would have probably had some shitty game articles about it and a maybe a day of e-fame. Literally I would have done the same thing and just given it back to the devs for some free shit.

>>60223732
Congratulations, you are the cancer of the industry that wants to deny programmers the chance to get a hold of the code of one of the greatest games in existence with infinite opportunity to improve and create.

>>60223743
Stop pretending to fit in. You clearly have not written a single line of code in your life.

>>>/v/

>>60223758
I'm an indie game dev and have worked with several engines to create. Asshat.

>>60223767
Sure thing, kid.

>>>/v/

>>60223758
>I want free gaymer gear and monopoly money
You're the one who needs to go back to >>>/v/

>>60223743
>Congratulations, you are the cancer of the industry that wants to deny programmers the chance to get a hold of the code of one of the greatest games in existence with infinite opportunity to improve and create.
you mean a game that is easy as shit to mod anyways and that doing the right thing and giving lost source code that was never meant to be open source makes me cancer? Alright kid, play your gaymes I hope you grow up someday.

>>60223743
>infinite opportunity to improve and create
name 1

>>60223777
You sound like a fucking manchild dude. I have better things to do than argue with your unfuckable ass.

>>60223775
I would have rather done fucking nothing than risk being legally reamed for releasing something that no longer has any practical value.

>>>/v/

>>60223775
>I want actual stuff rather than praise from some shitty neckbeards for like a day
ftfy kid

>>60223780
Can't hold an argument so you do some namecalling and leave. I am the manchild?

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>>60223780
>unfuckable ass

>>60223772
>"No you're lying!"

What an excellent quality post.

Come on, anon, you're better than that.

>>60223803
>I want gaymer gear and monopoly money
>I am the manchild?

>>60223767
>I'm an indie game dev
so is everyone else

>worked with several engines
so has everyone else

What did you hope to gain by pointing these things out?

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>>60223698
>>60223727
>>60223743
>>60223767
>>60223780

>WAAH WHY DIDN'T HE LEAK A TWENTY YEAR OLD CODEBASE OF MY FAVOURITE VIDEOGAME

Guaranteed that none of you would know what to do with it anyways.

>>60223767
Hope your shitty game fails. Nah it is gonna fail.

so I take it the /v/ thread archived so the shills spill over here?

>>60222528
make a mobile ripoff of that game and score millions of dollars, and then give it back

>>60223780

Like shitpost on /g/? Nice one tard

>>60223835
I think it is just 1 autistic kid trying to convince people that releasing a source code, probably made in an extinct language, is going to "make the world a better place.

I mean look at this shit.
>totally worth throwing away the only chance at the source code being released to the public who would have been grateful for such a gift, it could have revolutionized the game and breathed new life into it far more than blizzard has done

>Congratulations, you are the cancer of the industry that wants to deny programmers the chance to get a hold of the code of one of the greatest games in existence with infinite opportunity to improve and create.

He is a dumbass

>>60222362
>>60223698
>>60223743
>>60223767
>>60223780
>>60223805

I thought /g/ was a shitty board already but it looks like /v/edditors can always make things worse. Please go back.

it's threads like these that make me wonder if you all deserve the combing cyberpunk dystopia

>>60223813
compared to what? A day of fame from neckbeards and shitty gaymer "news" on it. I don't think you are very smart.

>>60223238
Top kek
I deserve that

>>60223649
>without it being able to be traced back to yourself

actually, not a clue

you had a chance to explain how and you blew it

>>60222362
The only people who'd assign any sort of value to the source of a 20 year old videogame are going to be /v/-tier manchildren, dude. Maybe you'd have better luck spamming your thread there.

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Rugged individualism is pretty much dead in the U.S. Instead we have beta cuck males everywhere subservient to their corporate slave masters, It's sickening to watch. Even a moral church going pastor would've shared this with the world, or at least bargained for more.

Legally under California law, something that was found, where no police report being filed, is by law, your property. This was why Gizmodo was legally allowed to borrow that iphone and take it apart (Apple illegally paid off cops to raid that bloggers house btw).

How many fucking jobs or lives would be ruined by releasing this? None. 0. Nothing. It just protects Blizzard's profits by a factor of 0.00000000000000001%. He should've talked to a good jew lawyer about this to get the maximum, but instead he just whored himself out for leddit karma and blizz junk. Some people are just fucking stupid with their good fortune and blow it.

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>first this redditor child wipes hard drive of an xbox development machine
>now this redditor faggot ruins the chance to explore the proprietary source code of a nice game

I'm angry.

I'd do the same, you but instead I'd document it here instead of reddit, to make you insufferable faggots mad.
Free tickets to Blizzcon beats your happiness.

Who gives a shit about this. No one but fucking gooks care about starcraft, RTS is a dead genre. Boo hoo I don't have access to the source code of a 20 year old dead game.

>>60223696
Crime against humanity.

>>60223944
>to make you insufferable faggots mad.
>Free tickets to Blizzcon beats your happiness.
You really have no idea why we are mad.
I almost never say this. But fuck off to reddit.

>In the end though, Khemist49 was contacted by one of Blizzard’s lawyers who kindly asked for the disc back.

I'd have returned it too. You people obviously don't know about Blizzard's history of showing up on doorsteps of hackers and botters with an army of lawyers. If you're American, you're basically fucked if they do this.

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>>60222362
>wanting the source code of some obsolete kusoge

Yes, you should die.

Member when the half life source code leaked? Member all the amazing shit we got from that? That will never ever ever happen again. Americans love sucking corporate cock too much.

>>60223944
>Free tickets to Blizzcon beats your happiness.
you'd rub a cheese grater on your dick just to spite some people you don't know on the internet?

>>60223956
>not wanting source code

STFU luser. Plenty can be learned by exploring and/or reverse-engineering old games. Especially those that target resource constrained platforms.

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>>60222535
This place is a celebration of anonymity in all its glory and uncomfortable freedom.

To go against that, and draw attention to yourself, for what seems to be a jab at the nature of the medium you're using to convey your ideas, is indicative that you don't really understand the nature of the place you're posting. Or even the foundation of your desire to tripfag.

You're basically that kid at the beach who's in jeans and combat boots. You feel that everyone else looks stupid shirtless in board shorts swimming and having a good time, when it's really you who looks like the total retard.

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>>60223984
Pretty much this.
>half life 2 source code leaks
>goes down in history as one of the best hacks
>changes the way valve views online distribution


>fag finds starcraft sourcecode
>gives it back to blizzard
>gets free tickets to shitty con
>will be forgotten in a week

The level of faggotry is off the charts.

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>>60222897
>Zerg, Protoss, Terran
>The Zionist Trifecta of Power

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>>60224062
I used to play counter strike until a couple years ago when the hacking became so rampant, and the skins so prevalent and ridiculous, that i wish upon valve all the evils of this world.

Cool. They might actually release it for study one day; it's freeware now anyway, but probably not that soon as they're remastering it themselves.

You DON'T want to piss off Blizzard's lawyers. They mean serious business and generally don't fuck around - they have won most of the cases they've brought, and some of them have been high-profile test cases (e.g. Blizzard v Bnetd, holding in the 8th Circuit that the direct RE Bnetd did for server emulation is a violation of 17 USC §1201, DMCA anticircumvention). The only fuckups they've ever made is hassling a few sites about Overwatch porn, and they stopped that when they didn't get anywhere.

Asking nicely for them really is asking nicely, and it's cool that they were nice to him for being nice in return. The next letter would be a subpoena duces tecum or worse. He absolutely did the right thing in the circumstances. Given the notice right on the CD itself, it potentially could have been criminal for him to keep it (theft by finding).

>god's pee tape
>xbawks devkit
>starcraft source
Reddit aims to disappoint.

>>60224062
>will be forgotten in a week
Well not for the guy who got the ticket

>>60224107
>They might actually release it for study one day; it's freeware now anyway
How many devs do that?

>>60224133
Alot actually?
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code
Seriously the hl2 leak was important because hl2 was new at the time. What benefit is 20 yr old game gonna do anyways when that shit is moddable as fuck?

>>60223984
Two dead maintanence projects and the assets being used as a springboard for every babby's first hl2 mod, yeah.

>>60224166
I think it's the principle of the thing.

You're not supposed to encourage practices of business that go against consumer happiness at no expense to those involved. He forewent the betterment of those who'd be interested in the source code, which there are many, myself included, and decided to ... what ... do what he thought a mega-corporation wanted him to?

He should be ashamed of himself.

He went against the spirit of 4chan.

>>60222362
That's a nice source bub

>>60222362

All those people saying how they would upload it or sell - really? Would you like to get your ass locked for selling whats not yours? Ruin your life for 5 minutes of respect from random anons from internet?

I know that whole idea of open source twist the mind in some aspect and its nice to share your code but YOUR code. That was not his property.

You really scare me.

>find StarCraft source code
>post about it on leddit
>Blizzard contacts him
>doesn't rip the code at all and post it
>sends it back to Blizzard because they told him it was """"""stolen""""""
>they send him literal fucking garbage peripherals, plushies, and $250 of monopoly money
>he could have gotten actual money
>he actually thinks he did the right thing
THIS IS THE WORLD WE LIVE IN AND THESE ARE THE HANDS WE'RE GIVEN

>>60224200
>You really scare me.
it scares the everliving shit out of me that you believe in imaginary property, most of all because your beliefs are literally the result of an advertising campaign i saw happen in my lifetime

>>60224200
What the hell is with all these posts about lawyers, as if it's impossible to share files anonymously online.

>>60224200
>Would you like to get your ass locked for selling whats not yours?
Blizzard doesn't give a shit about suing over freeware
Also you can't prove he was the one that leaked it if he covered his tracks. You just sound like a /v/ faggot with no understanding of how the internet works.

>>60222362

How the fuck do you "find" this. Did some developer sell it on ebay a long time ago and he just bought it from someone else? Was it just sitting in a pawn shop?

Friendly reminder that appeals to authority and appeals to "rightful owners" are fallacies

>>60224227
you have to start from the understanding that the guy was illiterate and made a forum thread asking about it. at that point he was already fucked and had to give it to blizzard

i don't blame the guy for being illiterate but i despise that we created an internet where illiteracy is the norm

>>60224212
>he could have gotten actual money
He could have been sued, I know he found the stolen goods in good faith but if blizzard got a whiff of it they would have sued.

It would have been better to release it anonymously, that too is with its risk.

most of /v/ was equally mad other than redditor cuckolds and trolls

>>60224252

How do you release something like this anonymously without it getting linked back to you? I am certainly not going to do it I just am curious.

As someone who has been to Blizzcon twice at the height of my fanboyism that shit is not worth it. It's nothing but immense stanky lines for an extremely limited number of things to do.

>>60224224
>imaginary property

Keep telling yourself that. You might ask people to share results of their work, but just ask. Dont be a commie with retarded shit like "what you make dont belong to you it belong to everyone!" just because you cant hold it physically in your hand.

>B-BUT BLIZZARD WOULD HAVE SUED HIM

get this

what if

whoa

what if

he

didn't

post about it

on plebbit for e-cock points?

and then, like

uploaded it thorough a VPN at mcdonalds to some starcraft irc room or something

>>60224274
Make an anonymous account on any emu/old game forum using Tor or any other means wherein your IP won't be know and upload it.

>>60224239
>if he covered his tracks

Doing illegal shit for MUH IDEALS is so cool, right?

>>60222362
>guy finds lost/stolen property
>returns it to owner
What is the problem? What is the number 1 advice we give to "help me unlock this iphone I found" threads?

I would give it away to blizz just for the upvotes.

it feels hella amazing to be upvoted so hard. try it sometimes.

What the fuck, he didn't release them?! He exchanged this fucking disc for a fucking Blizcon ticket?!

Reddit is the biggest pile of shit I've ever seen. Fucking hell, he needs to hang himself. What a fucking disgrace.

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>>60224322
You joke but some people actually think like that.

>>60224311
Is this your first day on the internet? People leak shit all the time, and it is a selfless act and usually helps the community

>>60224316
filtered

>we have written history for many years into the past
>some important, some seemingly inane, but its still there
Right now can we look back at those texts and decide what we feel is important.
500 years from now something else might be important that isnt important to us now. We dont just throw the texts away.

All of our culture and history we are currently building right now is digital. When its gone its GONE.

Its not our place to arbitrarily decide what will be important in the future.
Instead of distributing something of importance to people now, and potentially of the future, they gave it to people who lost the fucking thing in the first place who will never release it publicly.

Its actually kind of sad if you think about it, how fragile and close all of our culture is to just not existing anymore

>>60224316

A lot of people on /g/ thinks that code is "not property" and bullshit like that.

I blame Stallman.

>>60224358
>Its not our place to arbitrarily decide what will be important in the future.
>Starcraft may one day be as important as the Iliad

>>60224358
cry more faggot

>>60223192
as faggy as it sounds this guy's right
it's the same shit as the xbox dev kit bullshit, a retarded thing to do maybe but not really counter-productive to any real effort, blizzard would shit all over you if you tried to do anything with that source code anyway and people who actually know how to fuck and tweak games like this already have more than enough tools and knowhow to do so as it is

>implying you'd be able to do anything with the code without being sued into oblivion by blizzard

god you're so stupid sometimes guys

>>60224374
Not everyone cares about the preservation of out digital history and culture.
And thats fine
But crying more is what everyone who is mad ITT needs to do.

Its up to us to actually try and preserve the history we are creating today. Because of course we have people like you who are shortsighted and dont care about the future.

>>60224370
You dont know what or how works of art, code, writings or anything that is happening in the now will be viewed in the future.

Hell, your shit website may be revered 200 years from now as a great historical place to look back on prices of PC parts from way back in history.

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>>60222362
The more I see Reddit discussed here, the more I think anons care about the upvotes just as much it not more. It's just a different stance on it. You know you can use that site without paying any attention to the karma?

The person did the right thing.

>>60224412
>Its up to us to actually try and preserve the history we are creating today.
You did not create Starcraft.

>>60224358
Not really. We make shit. In the future they'll make shit. You'll never read every book put out this year, or play every game, or watch every TV show. If you can live without them, the future can as well.

that's why our long gone ID software was based

You have to agree that making a golden disc titled "starcraft gold master source code" was a pretty bad move on Blizzard's behalf

>>60224316
>stolen

An employee being given a trophy from all the hard work they performed then forgetting it in their storage unit two decades later where it finds its way onto Ebay is not stolen property.

The code itself however is a whole other argument.

>>60224462
>lost/stolen

>>60224424
You sure got me there.
Im sorry that I included myself with all of current humanity that uses and created digital stuff.

>>60224425
>If you can live without them, the future can as well.

We can live without all the historical texts we have in libraries too. And there is a lot of inane garbage writing in books that nobody is ever going to use.
Doesnt mean we should just burn and throw away those books in the big libraries does it?

I've read the original thread on Reddit, these comments are pure cancer - pro-corporatism shills mostly.

This is why we need GPL, despite its flaws and muh freedom.

>>60224462
>code
>stolen
information wants to be free, yo

>>60224470
Mate, listen to yourself. Despite my earlier joke, you really are saying:
>Starcraft may one day be as important as the Iliad

Take a moment for some self reflection.

>>60224470
Starcraft is nothing but idle entertainment.

>>60224119
>god's pee tape
I... what?

>>60224424
neither did neo-blizzard

>>60224571
don't bend anon, ascend!

>>60224544
You are literally cherry picking classical literature that our culture has deemed great. 200 years from now may not give a shit about it.

Again, its not up to YOU to decide what will be important to future generations.

The stuff that is not deemed important, but just as boring old garbage is still a great tool to understand context of the time. Context of the culture.
This idea isnt something new, this is why libraries exist.
The only problem is the finite lifespan of digital history.
This reddit faggot could have thrown that cd away, blizzard may not have another copy and the source is gone quite literally forever.
Its a very volatile and dire situation with our digital history.

>>60224549
How does that change its potential significance to future generations?
Was idle entertainment from hundred of years ago that were documented in text not significant?
Especially to understand what, why, and who people used to be?

>>60223033
fatass

>>60224605
Idle entertainment is never relevant. It's literally just what we do when we're not doing anything meaningful.

>>60223828
>nooo it's valuable to meeee I don't want them having it reeeee
You retarded niggers are on the same level as the "people" who want machine guns to stay banned because they're an "investment"

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>>60223192
maki is right

>>60224605
>200 years from now may not give a hoot about it.
It survived 3000 years of a changing humanity. You have gone from "this item is of great historical importance" to "this 3000-year-old item may get forgotten" in 2 posts.

Enjoy the rest of your day anon, I am out.

>>60224659
it's not valuable to anybody of significance, manchild
>>>/v/

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>>60223696
>get a rare as fuck, important piece of hardware with a HDD full of data
>wipe the drive and gut the case for leddit karma
Ok, I'm mad.

>>60222425
>>60222455
Reminder that another redditor took out all of the internal components from an OG Xbox dev kit to use the case in a PC build.

>>60224468
Doesn't matter, Blizzard had no right over the physical CD any more, just like if suddenly Nintendo or Sony stepped in and demanded that insanely rare SNES Play Station prototype that someone found that also came from a high level employee.

Don't trust a company to accurately preserve its past no more than you would allow Hitler to write WWII history books.

>>60224316
Holy shit, I thought you couldn't become even more of a faggot. Drop the trip, it's embarrassing at this point.

>>60224651
I mean if you think that the only context you need for a whole culture is when they are at work, sure.

>>60224689
> "this 3000-year-old item may get forgotten"

Nobody said it would be forgotten, but just because we as a people think that its important and should be deemed great, and people have for a long time does not mean that the future will. And this is with everything.

Instead of putting ink to paper and putting all of our history and culture into books like we have in the past, we are doing it in on computers digitally.
You never know what kind of thing the future will hold dear, with staying power of 3000 years of love.
And there will be some of that relevant, culturally important on the computer.

Who knows what other ancient books we would have held dearly for years, if they had not been lost?
Well our digital shit IS getting lost every single day.

This fucking source code was sold on ebay, and was that close to being gone.

People need to give a fuck about our digital history. Its baffling to me how people just dont think or care about it.

Nobody says to burn down libraries, yet everyone is apathetic when 40 million Vine users had all of their videos disappear overnight never to be seen again.

>>60222362
All 4chan /b/ /g/ and all other boards cry there is no humanity left everyone is liar and, everyone is evil, but when someone does something good, everyone goes waaaah wtf ayylmao and shit. Not to mention this game is fully free. I do believe it is true maybe some good simulators would have been made like osu! and maybe good total conversions and new games made top of it, but still this double standard shit is so triggering.

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>>60224544
>using the current year argument
>Take a moment for some self reflection.

>>60224802
>game is now fully free
>it would have hurt poor old blizzard to have the source code released

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>>60222528
compile it and run Optimised Starcraft on my own rig, forever have an advantage in h2h starcraft matches

also write a modernised network stack for it

>>60222556
>yfw the key to 'insurance.rar' is in the starcraft source code

>>60224802
> giving away sourcecode to a huge corporation to get a fucking $100 ticket
> good thing

>>60223192
Brisbane, 14, M.

>>60224802
>everyone is liar and, everyone is evil,
Yeah, like when a corporation sends lawyers to a reddit users house for inadvertently having a cd to a 20 year old game.

>but when someone does something good
Rolling over for a large corporation who threatened legal action, and then taking some toys to make everyone think the company is great.
Its like your uncle taking you for ice cream after molesting you

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>>60224802
>All 4chan /b/ /g/ and all other boards cry there is no humanity left everyone is liar
No. That is only /r9k/.
>>>/r9k/

> but when someone does something good
Good for blizzard. Bad for everyone besides blizzard.
>But it's free*!!!!!!

Looking at what they did to nostalrius shows how they will treat any fans that try to mod or improve on it.

It WOULD be fine if public domain was actually functional and we could count on starcraft eventually returning to whoever wanted it but as of right now, when blizzards ship sinks they are taking everything with them.

>>60224818
So tbqh releasing it to public wouldn't have given him anything but a potential threat of being Sued, and all the actual starcraft bw players really hate even the idea of rebinding hot keys and path finding and believe it adds to the challenge people actually have resisted these kind of changes in forums and shit, and also he got some sweet stuff keyboard mouse a game plushy and also full blizzcon tour but that 250$ blizz credit is laughable though, giving money which only works in their shop but still its quite good, for an old disc like that, not to mention blizzard is really strict about these fan games and fan servers they have ruined a big server before called nostalrius. All the things being worked with the source code would have been killed anyway

>>60224878
>>60224898
>all the things being worked with the source code would have been killed anyway.

Is there a market for source codes from games? Asking for a friend.

>>60224919
no, just release it through the proper inconspicuous channels jew

Dude came to /vr/ first, was called a faggot and left. You could have had the code OP.

How did the guy acquire the disc in the first place?

>>60224898
All you have to do is get it out into the wild

Send it to Jason Scott at Archive.org.
Archive.org would have hosted it, they would have taken the legal cease and desist if it were to show up.
It would be bad PR for Blizzard to whine about source for a game they give out for free. And once its in the wild, its in the wild to those who want it.

>>60224919
Please steal from work. When the game is old and the company has used you up and spit you out, release it.
Its realistically not going to hurt anyone, we need to preserve as much as we can.
And source codes are a whole lot harder to get while at the same time much more interesting then normal stuff that is being archived.

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>>60222362
What does karma on reddit do?

>>60224962
Found it in a Blizzard merch that he bought from ebay.

>>60224973
People can click your post and make a number go up or down, they essentially vote on the value of your post, like a grading system. It's just a number showing how many people voted up or down your posts.

>>60223658
thats marketing

>>60224973
nothing, it just is a number tied to your account, which is what fosters the sheer awfulness of reddit, your status being a worthless number of points from making stupid quips and circlejerks

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>>60222362
You mean you wouldn't have done the same thing for some sweet reddit gold?

>>60224993
Everyone glosses over the lawyers sending him threatening letters
Thanks blizzard!

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>>60224898
>and all the actual starcraft bw players really hate even the idea of rebinding hot keys and path finding and believe it adds to the challenge people actually have resisted these kind of changes in forums and shit
"""""all""""" the actual starcraft bw players have been debating it since SC2 and will continue to debate it.
The game is ancient, making optional changes to pathfinding and binding will allow new players to enter the community and give the game some more life. Pros and cons on both sides.

>All the things being worked with the source code would have been killed anyway
That is quite literally just you talking out of you're ass.
If you want to play a game of WC3 for example, you will be playing it on Netease, or WC3arena, or one of the MANY different fan hosted servers because blizzards battle.net has 0 anti-cheat systems.
Same goes for starcraft.

Blizzard CAN'T clamp down on everything. It's not financially viable. Lawyers cost money. Lawsuits cost money. And all they are gaining is destroying fan communities for their old games.
This argument is so fucking retarded.

>upload the code
>risk a lawsuit and have some faggots approval

Or

>give it back
>tons of free shit


Not a hard choice

>>60225016
that's because you're a nigger

>>60225016
you forgot the karma points my good sire

anyway... you had my attention... now you have my upvote!!

good post my good sire

>>60225032
Nope, you are a nigger

>>60224796
lol, go read a book moron

>>60225013
Netease is officially supported by blizzard thier forums are blizzard.cn and wc3arena has shit traffic hardly blizzard even cares about it and how did i pulled it out of ass, nostalrius got shut down, calm down.

>>60225035
I would rather get a free mouse and a paid trip to blizzcon than your approval

>starcraft

Found your problem.

>>60225016
>>tons of free shit
hey, don't forget to post the pic on your viral thread plz, make sure the logos aren't obstructed

>>60225052
It was probably in his NDA

>>60225016
Read the actual thread. Those are not the only options and it's not about "some faggots approval".

>upload the code anonymously via one of the many ways listed in this thread
>give it to someone who could do above.
>Get no recognition but leave an impact on the world and reap the benefits of what everyone does with the code
>have you're action go down in history with the half life leak

or

>give it back
>get a free con ticket
>get some faggots approval on reddit
>be forgotten about a week later

>>60223014
>the most iconic
lmao

>>60225064
>>60225052


>>60225045

>>60225089
you wouldn't get my approval, you'd get sued if you tried to

captcha:
clear KENNEDY

>>60225062
haha, yeah, might have been "stolen" from the top drawer

is blizzard releasing anything new?

>all this shit
>nobody realizes its just marketing for the SC remaster coming out in 2 months

>>60225041
>wc3arena has shit traffic hardly blizzard even cares about it
wc3arena is the most popular service in all of Europe.
It has shit traffic compared to Netease because wc3arena is only for wc3, Netease is a major third party gaming host for multiple different games.

>calm down.
Anon. You are on 4chan. We call each other faggots and retards casually here. Because someone is calling you a faggot does not mean they are angry.

Now >>>/out/

>>60224965
>we need to preserve as much as we can.
what for?
do you idiots realize people good enough to actually make decent games don't need to rip off other peoples source code to do so?

Why the fuck is this thread full of anti-leak faggots?

>>60225089
And yet you made this post, because it's so important to you that we know you don't care what we think.

Why the fuck is this board full of peripheral merchants?

>>60225041
Nostralius was up for years, it only got take down when it got so big it was drawing RL normalfag press, and even then they didn't take down any of the other pirate servers.

What exactly could you achieve from this?
Like beyond datamining the retail game?
seems fucking useless.
I'd img it and give it back. Leak the img like a year later. Probably got a long as contract making it clear though when he sent it in.

>>60224973
The karma rating has a purpose as the default view of the site lists content and comments by their popularity. Karma rating given to them is an important factor in how the site calculates popularity. Karma is just a value of -1 or +1, works exactly like upvote/downvote on any other site that does that. Every user can upvote or downvote a post once or obviously choose not to do anything. As always with any ranking system, lots of people care more about the rank itself(do anything to get upvotes) rather than the purpose of such system in the first place(promote quality content). It works pretty well to an extent. Subreddits have freedom in whether they choose to show the karma, allow negative karma, have delay before karma rating is shown, don't show karma on posts that have little votes or whatever you want to do with it.

>>60225140
modding scene for your forgotten product, loads of marketing

tvh

>>60225129
Because IT is cucked by corporativist shills.

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Where do half of you retards even crawl out from?
If you would suck blizzards cock for some cheap shit and some reddit fame rather than distribute the source code to anyone who wants to have a look at it, you really should fuck off the technology board.

Guess the amount of frogposting in this thread is already answering my question.

>>60225071
It's the national sport of South Korea. That alone makes it one of the most culturally important video games in human history.

>>60225125
Just because i said calm down doesn't mean i an getting triggered
>>>\out\

you do realize that "sauce kode" is literally just a bunch of pics of Metzen cumin' on himself, right?

like that one moot pic

>>60225150
don't insult amphibians anon

>>60225127
I dont actually give one fuck about starcraft or the source code itself.
I care about the actual idea of preserving digital history, and something like source code is majority of the time thrown away or lost over time.
Its just a unique piece of work that is worthy of putting out there

>>60225144
Nothing really left to be modded in.
The free version/remaster is way more press than leaking source code would ever be.

>>60225064
You're forgetting selling it off privately. Like I understand if you're too selfish about doing something amazing for the gaming community but he could have made at least $1000 cash selling it to some Korean, much more than the garbage he got. Someone else said this guy is unemployed too? I can see why with his stupidity, opportunity falls into his lap and he throws it away.

>>60225129
>>60225147
bait

I hope somebody will find another disc and leak sourcecodes, so that this faggot get his ass crushed by Blizzard lawyers.

>>60225124
Ha.
>gold master source code
>blizzard logo
Why isn't it a normal looking disc? Sure they wouldn't bother using special printed optical media to internally store source code.
This must be true.

>>60225162
wouldn't really hurt, would make the company look like good guys, would make lots of people really happy

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>>60225127
>do you idiots realize people good enough to actually make decent games don't need to rip off other peoples source code to do so?
You are speaking from ignorance.

The game is free to download.
It has a tiny player base of people who still love the game.
If the people who love it want to change it in any way, (mod it, fix a bug, fix an exploit someone may discover that kills the game) they can not easily. (they can, but it would be a million times easier with the source code)

Blizzard losing nothing by giving the source code to the fans.
The fans lose everything if at some time they need to fix a bug/exploit.

This is why giving back the source code is bad.

It has nothing to do with "getting internet points on 4chan" or "ripping off starcraft 1".

>>60225161
its the end result that matters, not the source code

>>60225181
>You are speaking from ignorance.
i'm an actual emplyed game developer

>If the people who love it want to change it in any way, (mod it, fix a bug, fix an exploit someone may discover that kills the game)
starcraft has no signifcant bugs or exploits and has extremely flexible mod tools already, you're the one speaking from ignorance here

>Blizzard losing nothing by giving the source code to the fans.
agreed but irrelevant

>>60225176

>would make the company look like good guys
if they released it themselves maybe.
>would make lots of people really happy
Sure idiots who seem to think source code magically makes anything possible. Like those guys who threw a shitfit over the dude formatting the drive on an xbox dev kit.

>>60225174
Aren't you familiar with all those other major programming projects where they keep the source code on a single fucking compact disk?

Whoever thought up this shit seems to either think video games are produced the same way as recorded albums, or they think we're all completely fucking retarded.

I get that it's cool to circlejerk over some code that could have been free'd, but what would YOU have done with the source code, besides perhaps spreading it upstream to some mythical programmer in the sky?

Is it not more regrettable that free software devs aren't making free clones of the better video games?

>>60225204
ahhh you are one of the Good Humans™, good to know your elite status, i almost mistook you for someone who has fun

>>60225216
I would start porting it to Linux right away. No kidding.

>>60225213
this was when the internet was not quite the same as it is today. They could have done that to just easily send someone like an external studio helping some files. Or just archival purposes.

>>60225216
read it, look around, see how shit works, why do i need to do more with it

>>60225226
Im just pragmatic.
I dont see what is fun exactly. It's literally nothing no matter what he did with it.
Just dont like to see the triggered internet lynch mob in full force again.

>>60222372
Get out roach

>>60225216
The Richie Shithead crouwd have wanted to play it for over 20 years but couldn't cause they are paranoid about open source.

>>60225235
I don't know how young you are, but keeping fucking "Gold Master Source Code" CD's around was never a thing.

This is so clearly viral marketing, I'm surprised so many people on /g/ fell for it.

>>60225203
>i'm an actual emplyed game developer
Has nothing to do with the fact that you are ignorantly thinking this has to do with people wanting to "rip offf other peoples source codes".

>>60225203
>starcraft has no signifcant bugs or exploits
And because right now the game has no bugs or exploits, that means in the future no other bugs will appear and no other exploits will be found.
>extremely flexible mod tools already,
As I said, it's not impossible but in the future if some assclown feels like fucking with the BW community and starts looking for 0days. You are going to have a hell of a time fixing that with just mod tools.
The community is small and needs every advantage it can to stay alive.

>agreed but irrelevant
That is the only relevant part. Everything else is superfluous.
The code should have made it's way back to the fans or if you wanted to be selfish he should have done what this anon said >>60225167

I would not hate him for being a greedy fuck and selling it, or being a selfless fuck and helping everyone with it, but this guys just a regular fuck.

>>60225064
>>Get no recognition but leave an impact on the world and reap the benefits of what everyone does with the code
Are you literally autistic? This isn't a fucking lost Picasso painting, or the spear of longinus, or a fossil of a never before seen extinct dinosaur. It's the source code for a single fucking videogame. Yeah, I'm sure the human condition will be forever improved and the world will never be the same again because some guy uploaded it to the web.

Who gives a shit lol. Get some perspective, fuckass.

>>60223318
what the fuck am I reading, this is such a pathetic defeatist argument

>>60225274
>This is so clearly viral marketing
We know. we can use blizzards marketing to show people why open source is important.
Hardly any discussion in this thread has been about the game. It's all about open source vs closed.

>>60225274
>I don't know how young you are, but keeping fucking "Gold Master Source Code" CD's around was never a thing.
Never said it was you illiterate retard. I'm just explaining a possibility.
A protip to be less of a complete fucking moron in life. If you don't understand something, doesn't mean its a conspiracy. Earth isn't flat just cause you failed science class.

Maybe Gold master was an internal build name. maybe that's how they transported it for an offsite backup. Maybe a dev took it home because he could, or snuck it out to work on. Maybe they sent it to a 3rd party dev they outsourced some work on. I don't know, I don't work for blizzard.
My point about the 90s is you couldnt just upload 700mbits of file to your owncloud server and then download it remotely anywhere in 2 minutes.

>>60225283
are you aware how much starcraft has been played competitively, for actual money? I'm just saying releasing the source code is of little value to anyone

>>60225203
weak arguments

>>60225333
>maybe
>maybe
>maybe
Or, more likely, it's viral marketing. Use some fucking common sense.

>>60225333
err reading this back in my head I realize now "gold master" obviously referred to going gold/release build. dont know why you were so uptight about that one.

>>60225354
marketing for what?

>>60225354
Ever heard of Occam's razer you dumb fuck? now smoke a bowl and head over to /x/.

I mean Im sure when Blizzard saw the thread they made sure to capitilize in a possitive marketing way, at least as much as they could without the source getting out.

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>>60225274

>I don't know how young you are, but keeping fucking "Gold Master Source Code" CD's around was never a thing.
Except it is.

>>60225368
Overwatch obviously.
I mean uhhh the game that is literally free now, as in beer, without any microtransactions. Yeah they really want you playing the orignal SC. not even 2.

>>60225368
Starcraft: Remastered.
Keep up.

Blizzard still supports Starcraft, even after all these decades, so it doesn't matter a lot at the moment.

>>60225374
>Ever heard of Occam's razer you dumb fuck?
Yes. The simplest scenario, which requires the least assumptions is that this is just viral marketing.

Why does it look like lightscribe?

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>>60225321
>Get some perspective, fuckass.
Lets pretend that story is true.
When two roman solders stabbed Jesus with the spear of longinus do you honestly think any of them though "wow this spear has the blood of Christ on it! We have to preserve it! It's going to be a famous relic!". They would have gone on and stabbed a bunch of other people with it until it broke, because its a fucking spear.

YOU don't know what will or will not be valuable later on in history.
We are trying to preserve as much as we can regardless if it will be important or not because their is a SMALL chance it might.

On the other hand if we take you're approach and just say
>It's current year!
>Nothing of historical importance ever happens in current year!
We would end up like the rest of the forgotten civilizations that did not record history.

In summery.
The history we know only exists because someone wrote something down.
You are a faggot.

>>60222362
How the hell did that thing even escape blizard HQ?

>>60225383
>implying the source code is on that disk
>or that that's the "master copy" of the source code

>>60225409
makes a lot of sense, glad no one explained it until now and just said to keep up with garbage that companies make like that's worth anyone's time

>>60225383
Your example is more in line of what I would've expected from an archive disc.
It doesn't need custom print, shit's too expensive to be spent on looks no customer is ever supposed to see.
Just a disc from the closest supermarket and some marker is enough. The disc in the OP looks more like an advertisement piece in comparison.

Also, it's very likely that disc is the first compiled release version of the game and not source code.

>>60225428
yeap.
And the simplest solution of how buildings collapse are thermite bombs in the basement placed by the president. The simplest way to explain a moon landing is a hollywood studio. Life must be easy wihtout ever thinking.

The simplest explanation is that some dude found a disc with Starcraft source code on it. Made a reddit thread. then got contacted by blizzard who gave him free shit in exchange for giving it back.

Or you know reddit threads about source code for 20 year old games are the greatest way to market your company or whatever, sure it gets 1/1000th the exposure of tweeting memes, and has a high risk of getting found out. and you have to make a plant reddit account at least 5 years prior, but whatever its totally the simplest explanation.

>>60225449
I'm struggling to parse your word salad, but that wasn't even the first mention of Starcraft: Remastered in this thread.

>>60222455
Fuckin oath
Reddicunts gtfo

>>60225467
no need to be passive aggressive

>>60225466
>Maybe Gold master was an internal build name
>maybe that's how they transported it for an offsite backup
>Maybe a dev took it home because he could
These stories all require more assumptions than simply "gaming company does some viral marketing"?
Why do you seem to think the common practice of viral marketing is some sort of unfathomably unlikely conspiracy? Have you been living in a cave?

I want to be one of the cuckmales, how do I remove thoughts of like freedom and improvement from my head and go full cuckposting.

I legitimately want to understand the logic of "everything is perfect nothing needs to change" and "a corporation will do something good eventually, so suck their cock now"

>>60225274
>keeping cd source code around was never a thing
Except for, you know, HL2, and that's not even accounting for when Atari was liqquidated, or people would find old floppies of game demos with source like Corridor 8, and someone would find a master CD of audio files which was one of like 2 two copies, such as System Shock 2's soundtrack.

>>60225464
its just burned in with one of those etcher things. Blizzard probably had one in the office. Its not even ink.

>>60222528
> get disc
> rip disc
> now have image and physical disc
> return disc
> upload everything everywhere, multiple CDs at home
You get free money AND keep the source

Why is it always a fucking redditer?

Jesus Christ, these cunts seriously lack braincells. Some lawyer at Blizzard has probably already taken a hammer to the disc.

>>60225444
Master is the merely the main branch of code that changes are added to, compared to unstable test branches. Learn your shit.

>>60225464
Again, this was 1998, and Blizzard was a company with resources, not a failed indie studio.

>>60225493
>Why do you seem to think the common practice of viral marketing is some sort of unfathomably unlikely conspiracy? Have you been living in a cave?
anon you spend to much time on 4chan. Everyone who likes *product you dont like* isnt actually a paid shill either. blizzard spends millions on marketing every year. Viral marketing is more in line with wendys twitter. not appealing to some obscure neck beards on /g/ by doing the opposite of what the community wants you to do on a reddit account you spent 5 years trying to get to blend in, for a game that isnt even your 3rd biggest while running a large risk of getting caught.

They gave him free shit for good publicity though obviously.

>>60225508
The half life 2 source code that was leaked wasn't leaked from a disc.

>>60225516
you do realize Blizzard probably made him sign a hardcore as fuck contract so that he couldnt right? Sure you could hope not to get caught crossing it. But do you really wanna risk it?

>>60225538
Are you actually trying to say viral marketing is in fact NOT a common marketing practice these days?

>>60225558
it is.
You just dont understand what it is.
read the post.
I gave the wendy's twitter an example of what it actually is.

If it was actually a marketing ploy, Blizzard would have released the code, or never once mentioned it and memed on something else.

>>60225590
>If it was actually a marketing ploy, Blizzard would have released the code
>if they aren't releasing protected intellectual property, it's not marketing
That's some grade A logic.

>>60225558
>>60225572

>>60225331
Does not matter. We can't prove it is a marketing ploy or not. We can only make the best of it.

>>60225615
it's like saying Sony sued Geohot as a viral marketing ploy.
you don't bring up something people don't like about your company to a community that doesn't like said thing, and then snuffle someones attempt to change it as "marketing"
there are two types of people on the internet:

Crowd A: People who dont give a solid fuck about open source or SC source code. This makes up about 99.9% of blizzard customers.

Crowd B: are people who want it to be released and be public.

Crowd A never saw heard or care about this thread. Crowd B only sees this in a negative light. Hardly makes them go "I LOVE BLIZZARD, IMMA GO BUY OVER-WATCH AND OPEN 10 CASES"

>>60225213
Hi Blizzard

Kindly fuck off

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He initially wanted to release the source code until he realized that:

a) Only freetards benefit - and not all that much.
b) He could get in legal trouble.

Guy is very rational. He owes you nothing. "You" is a strong word at that - you would do absolutely fucking nothing with this code because you're just another /bsg/ frequenting /g/ retard with a mechanical keyboard and a superiority complex.

>>60225929

>>60225181
Read the whole thread senpai.

>>60225947

It's not a terribly buggy game and I don't expect Blizzard would adopt the changes the fans made. And if Blizzard doesn't adopt it, how the fuck is it gonna be relevant in Korean tournaments? Why split the playerbase between the official and freetard version?

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>this many "lole 20yo gaem no one care" retards
>possibly important information on the hands of an illiterate and company that doesn't care about the game
you know your nation is fucked when people have corporatism as the default thought process, i hope the cd was scratched to all hell or gets leaked anyways

>>60224133
I heard the Quake source code was released which is kind of cool, you can see how they did stuff.

>>60225328
The truth, retard.