Reddit Destroys Starcraft SourceCode

We've had this exact thread at least 5 times since it happened.

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>Look at this faggot's reddit history. He's married, unemployed, he has money problems and this literal golden ticket falls into his lap. What does he do? He trades it for plastic crap, internet asspats and good goy points on the Blizzard Funbux store.
>He could have easily gotten enough money to buy a house outright if he was just smart enough to sell it privately.

Did I mention that he just stumbled upon it?

>>375982662
Fucking normalfags, fucking moralfags. At least it was just gookclick so nothing of value was lost but imagine if some little faggot gets his hands on the source code to something good and sends it to the company.

>>375982971
He's mexican, actually.

>>375982993
Nobody's going to pay $500k-$1m for SC source code, fucking retard

>>375982993

>Sell it privately
>What is the IRS
>What is gutting the FCC
>What is corporate monitoring and selling of user browsing information

Yeah, I'm sure some random guy could have gotten away with something like that.

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You guys are getting mad over nothing or don't care about

>>375983071
ask me how i know you're a nigger

>>375983258
>>375983214
kys stupid faggot

>>375983214
woah, no one said a gold encrusted house in the middle of new york city, bub

what an idiot, he gave that miracle for a fucking flashing keyboard

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>>375983214
Do you know how much a house costs anon?

>>375983313
>miracle

lmao what is with the hyperbole surrounding this story? It's the fucking source code to starcraft 1, what were people expecting would happen if it was posted online?

>>375983071
decent bait

>>375983214
>Nobody's going to pay $500k-$1m for SC source code, fucking retard
>source code for a game that made 500 million dollars on release
>important piece of vidya history
You're not even worth arguing with

>>375982826
I don't see what's wrong, Guy finds source code, gives it back to the guys who made it, dude get's store credit and a free trip to Blizzcon, probably a special mention too during the con. That's not bad of a reward. Besides, it was the right thing to do rather than horde it.

Yes I'm serious, I don't care how good or bad Blizz is today, it's no excuse to just basically steal their source code because some of you don't like them.

>>375983409
Add better support for mods, I guess.
Considering that Blizzard just released that remaster of it, I don't think it was that great of a find, surely would have been interesting for any software developers to look at though.

>>375982662
>finds code for a twenty year old video game
>gets two hundred bucks and free blizzcon
i don't see the problem

You guys are so desperate for some sort of drama, it's sad.

>>375983575
modders dude, modders would kill to be able to rebuild starcraft from the ground up with the source code.

Just another reason to hate reddit. This should be added.

>>375982662
>could be playing sourceports and mods
No you couldn't. This isn't like id tech open sourcing Quake, Blizz would DMCA+sue any stuff that crops up immediately. Remember Valve tricking that one guy into going to jail, and that was even back when Valve wasn't only about pure unadultered greed - so just imagine how modern Blizz would react. Anyone making source ports would go directly to jail.

>>375983293
Nice response from someone who clearly has no idea how any of this works and just want's his revenge against a video game company for stupid reasons.

>>375982993
>this literal golden ticket falls into his lap
he probably could have gotten more than $250 (and in real cash money, not store credit), but it definitely would have been no 'golden ticket', and if he'd tried to publicly auction it, or offer to sell it back to them, Blizzard probably would have brought legal action against him.

his best case would have been Blizzard deciding to pay up, and it wouldn't have been more than maybe $10k. a public auction probably wouldn't have gotten more than a few grand.

>>375983476
I honestly don't get how this started, some random dude finds the source code to SC? Where was it lying around for some random person to find it in the first place?

>>375983476
All I said was we have had this thread too many times. I don't give a fuck what your opinion is either way, the thread is here just for shitposting

At least it wasn't the Diablo 2 source code, that would have been a real travesty.

>>375983214
you're retarded people will pay scalpers $100+ for nintenbabby nfc toys and for gaymer gurls to bend over whilst streaming. some neckbeard collector will eat this shit up

Between this and the teenager that destroyed his OG Xbox devkit to make a low-end gaming PC, I think it should be illegal for Redditors to have objects of value.

>>375983575
>>375983474
Did you two just come from reddit?

>>375983658
They've had 20 years to mod whatever the fuck they wanted

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>>375983278
I don't get it either anon. The guy got a free ticket to Blizzcon, what the hell else would he have done with the source code? Who could he give it to? Was it worth even keeping?

>>375983762
I believe he was buying copies of old Blizzard games and he happened to get sent the source instead of the actual game.

>>375983828
People think there would be anime mods for starcraft or some garbage.

As if anyone here is playing SC1 or has played it in the past half decade.

>>375983690
>Anyone making source ports would go directly to jail.
Stop being so paranoid, if they weren't profiting off it all they could do was take it down like they always do. At that point it wouldn't matter since it was already uploaded.

>>375982662
Free Blizzcon sounds cool but 250 in blizzard dollar?. Should have been real money

Why didn't he saved data from this disk?

Yeah it would have been neat to see that code, but I think you're severely overestimating its value and usefulness.

This is peanuts to the xbox devkit.

>>375983293
>>375983301
>>375983408
>>375983474
>>375983803
Too easy.

>>375984067
He might have ;^)

The outrage over this is beyond forced, mods need to start 404ing this shit

>>375984067
He's too stupid to realize data can be copied, apparently.

>>375982876
>find old laptop
>find unsecured wi fi hotspot with no camera surveillance
>upload source to a bunch of filehosts and post links where they can be found
>dunk laptop in bleach, remove HDD and destroy it

>>375982662
>>375982993

what the actual fuck is wrong with people. literally giving a goldmine away.

>>375984131
>shut it down

>>375984131
>people discussing video games? on my /v/?
Try visiting one of the hundred other threads on the board, faggot.

>>375984131
>forced
You might be retarded.

>>375984121
I hope he did, he can sell it multiple times, heh

>>375983898
Software companies go apeshit over people who steal code or do something with stolen code. Like I said, I'd look at how Valve reacted with the HL2 source leak, that is the closest real-life example. It's not comparable to someone making Overwatch porn or reverse-engineering WoW servers, stolen source code is on a different level entirely.

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>>375984116
>you fell for my ruse

>>375984067
>code gets leaked
Gee I wonder who it came from, he'd just be putting a target on his head

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>>375984116
>merely pretending

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>>375982662
>giving back source code
>wiping original xbox hard drive because no files showed up on W10
why is reddit so retarded?

>>375984067
gotta have those le epic up votes above everything else

>>375984243
You mean when some German hacked into Valve's office server and stole nearly the entirety of HL2's development and released them to the internet? Because that was a completely different situation.

>>375984314
He already got stuff from blizz, why care?

why does reddit keep finding this shit? they're so fucking retarded they just keep pissing history away for a fucking number on a website

>>375982876
And people say /pol/ starts this garbage.
>>>/co/

>>375984131
How many Blizzard shills are on this board?

>>375983887
THIS!

Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, the free trip says more than enough how worth it it was to give the code back. A free trip for this guy will mean

-Blizzard paying for the air fare/travel
-Blizzard paying for the guy's hotel he would be staying at
-Blizzard paying for his ticket into the con
-Dude getting a special mention during the con and even meeting some of Blizzard's staff most likely and stuff like that
-Maybe food, don't really know
-Overall having a fun time at one of the more expensive cons (that I know of) for entirely free.

Yeah I'd say that's worth it over the possibility of getting sued, surrendering because he would never be able to pay for the lawsuit, and giving the code back for peanuts/nothing.

>>375984517
many
>>375984518

>>375983214
I would have paid max $750,000 for it. I'm a collector and avid programmer who could have made use of this for the good of the gaming community. Thanks.

>>375982662

The guy wouldnt have gotten jack shit for selling it, and it would have been alot more risk and effort on his part.

Anyone who thinks some crazy Korean would buy it off him for a million dollars is fucking retarded.

Same thing with the Xbox devkit. People act like the kid would have gotten beacoup bucks for it, even though most emulator devs are broke as shit.

>>375983409
>>375983539

If you have the source code of a game, you can literally port the game onto any console u want. among other things like unused game assets (cut content)

If you have the source code, you essentially copy+paste yourself into the developers shoes but you have 100% freedom. i'm not some modder geek or whatever, but it's pretty apparent to me that that a source code for starcraft 1 is a pretty big deal.

for example, last thread a guy was showing off his gears of war 3 running on ps3 - that was all thanks to Gears 3 source code being available.

>>375982662

I don't think anyone in this thread has a decent enough grasp of software engineering to realize this isn't as worthwhile as they think it is


Nice for a novelty collection, yes, but it would pretty fucking easy to reverse engineer a 2 decade old game written in one of the most prevalent languages in object oriented computing (c++)

There just isn't any profit motive to do so.

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>>375984401
tfw worst timeline

How the fuck do you just stumble upon something like this.

>>375984649
Hello fellow Saudi Arabian prince, I totally would've paid $750,000 for it too!

>>375984420
>le epic up votes
Not sure if irony.

What could he have possibly done with the code that isn't illegal? Just hand it to someone else and leave them asking the same question?He'd just be painting a target over his head.

What he did was not only the right thing to do, but it was also the best thing to do. He gets free cred from Blizzard, that was the best possible outcome of this situation and he deserves the praise he is getting, you edgelord.

>>375984067
Because Blizzard would know, and thus the guy would be in trouble. Besides, what the hell are you gonna do with the source code? make mods for a game nobody really plays anymore?

>>375984518
Why would he get a special mention? What would they say? "Thanks to cockmongler69 for giving us back a copy of the source code we already have for a game that is 20 years old"?
Source code leak for this game would only be a good thing for the community around it

>>375982662
>Well there you have it /v/, could be playing sourceports and mods for one of the best RTS of all time
no they wouldn't, RTS games are too complex for a /v/ raised on ASSFAGGOTS

>>375984116

ah, the admission of defeat

>>375984772
>WAAAAH ILLEGAL
>what he did was the right thing to do
>cred from blizzard
>best outcome of this situation
holy shill

>>375984438
Because Blizzard could happily take his free trip away, and sue him.

You're not very smart about this are you?

>>375984116
Retard BTFO

>>375984784
Most likely. I'm not saying it would be the highlight, but it would be something they would certainly do. I mean they're literally going to give the man a free trip all expenses paid to Blizzcon, why not?

>>375984726
reverse engineering without the source code is almost impossible. look at red dead redemption's non-existent PC port due to the source code being lost.

>>375984518
>>375984784
>possibility of getting sued
Or - and get this, because this is crazy - he could've just copied it and not fucking rushed to le reddit to suck in all the internet points his fat ass could hold. If blizz didn't already know that he had it then that doesn't have to change. How the fuck did this guy even end up with this anyways?

I'm still waiting for the source code for SC4 Will Wright promised to release after 10 years.

>>375985053
as opposed to figuratively giving him a trip? oh so fuckin generous, like 1000 bucks worth of travel and 250 fun money from a multi-billion corporation

>>375985053
Because they owe him nothing and he's just another face in the crowd.
>>375985141
I wish he didn't just rush to Reddit, believe me.

>>375984895
he can release an .ISO AFTER the trip you moron

then it's on blizzard to prove he maliciously copied and distributed their product, and not that they didn't send another gold disk to some rando, AGAIN.

>>375984757
>Be at garage sale
>See ff7 for 5 Dolla

People just sell this shit.

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>>375984892
You dropped this. Seriously why does /v/ think this is some magic goldmine? You retards really think someone is going to pay money for a two decade old source code?

More likely I think /v/ just wants to stroke their reddit/Blizzard hate just because they want to. Not defending either, but I'm saying it's pretty obvious folks just want to take Blizzard's source code away for yucks rather than any REAL sensible reason.

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>>375984401
>wiping original xbox hard drive because no files showed up on W10

>>375983690
>Remember Valve tricking that one guy into going to jail
That sounds like an interesting story

>>375984892
Would you either:

A: Keep the code for yourself and do nothing with it

B: Try to sell it to someone, risking jail time and a potentially ruined life, for an undisclosed sum of money, even though nobody would ever spend money on SC code

C: Give it back to Blizzard which DOESN'T RUIN YOUR LIFE OR MAKE ANYTHING THINK YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE and get free shit in return as well as global praise

Choose wisely, idiot.

>>375985236
Why would a copy of FF7 be worth more than $5? Was it factory sealed or something?

>>375985141
found it in a garage sale or something
>lost for years in some guy's basement
>but the second this guy got a hold of it blizz's magical radar picked it up and would have sued him should he not have handed it over to them
>it is also immoral to "steal" this code from a megacorp that probably no longer even has the coders on staff and only owns it because of broken copyright laws
this is what shills and leddit want you to believe

>>375985297
>kid acquires OG XBOX devkit
>tries to sell it on reddit
>no interest
>guts it, wipes, it, builds a generic PC with it
>internet freaks out saying they would have bought it

pretty stupid really

>>375985124

Right, almost. RDR also was a fully 3d game using a multitude of other API. Pretty more complex. You're correct, almost impossible, but definitely not past the realm of possibility considering how simple (comparatively) a program it is.

>>375985297
some redditor found a xbox dev kit. no one has these things and theres basically no xbox emulators from my understanding because of lack of understanding. the retarded redditor that found the dev kit wiped the hdd in the dev kit and turned it into some shitty personal computer.

>>375985273
>Opening the source for a widely popular game is bad
Only corporate employees or baiters think that giving out source code is bad.
>>375985364
I'd just release it online on multiple sites and burn the disk. No jail time necessary.

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>>375985218
Then Blizzard would still sue the guy since they would already know who dropped the ISO. Losing your cred and possibly alot of money in a lawsuit isn't worth sacrificing over nerds fapping over a ancient blizzard game.

>>375985297
Some retarded cocksucker bought a pre release Xbox Development Kit (basically a computer with a proprietary format for the harddrive) so he formatted the drive because he was a fucking retard who doesn't know shit about computers and turned it into le epic gaming rig.

>caring about 20 year old source code

No one plays that game anymore.

So what's the point of him even releasing it now that Starcraft + Brood War are free to everyone anyways? Not like the source code matters at this point.

>>375985364
I would definitely keep that shit desu, even if i did nothing but hold onto it for another 10 years just to spook everyone.

Would be a fucking cool thing to show off.

>>375984772
>muh legality
copyright laws are some of the most bullshit laws present in modern civilization. the moral thing to do would have been to post it online so everyone can enjoy it

>>375985513
it's not enough that they know, they have to prove it. "this guy obviously did it because he had the disc at one point" won't hold up in a court of law.

>>375985364
>>375985273
>haha dude source code is like worthless and stuff because I'm too retarded to use it
yes, you're either being payed by blizzard or so retarded it's a miracle you remember to breathe, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt

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Why is everyone in this thread acting like someone would make anything of value with the source code.

It's fucking Starcraft.
The best thing we could get out of that is maybe some interesting trivia.

What do you ACTUALLY THINK would happen if it was out there?

>>375985637
Great argument

It's a fucking 20 year old PC game that has been modded to death, no one would put it to use because it truly has no use

>>375985641
Sparking interest back into the game for starters. Why do you care if it's out there or not? If you have no interest in it then it wouldn't affect you. However, if you work for blizzard then it makes sense why you're glad to see it back home

>>375985529
>bought
it was a hand me down wasn't it?

>>375985536
Well /v/ wants to pretend that somehow keeping the source code would have magically paid off, rather than be sold for beans to some random person to start a half-assed mod team to "remaster" it, only for the mod to die 25% in and be forever forgotten.

>>375985364
>risking jail time and a potentially ruined life
You would have to be literally retarded to fuck up distributing that shit anonymously. Like, putting your signature and social security number in the name field retarded. All the guy had to do was not be a fucking redditor.

>>375985641
I don't know, but whatever would've happened it would've been more interesting than some retard getting blizzcon tickets. See >>375985637

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>>375985364
>global praise
>wow this guy found a disc and gave it back! what a good boy i'm sure his mommy raised him good

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>>375985770
See, nobody is answering my question.

You said I was a blizzard shill and whined.

I don't fucking care, I just want to KNOW WHAT THEY COULD DO WITH IT.

I'll gladly jump on the dissapointment train if anyone could fucking reason out why its dissapointing beyond some vague potential bullshit.

>>375985827
It might have been. It's contents probably wouldn't have helped emulation, but it would have almost certainly had unseen early Halo stuff.

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>>375985637
Wooow, what a great argument. Yup you got me alright, I'm being paid by Chris Metzen himself. Curse you /v/ for exposing me for what I truly am! A mere shill for Blizzard defending them for giving a man a free trip to Blizzcon in exchange for a source code NOBODY WOULD EVER FUCKING BUY.

EVER.

YOU FUCKING NITWIT.

>>375985637
>>375985770
>Anyone who tries to give insight into the guy's decision is a shill
/pol/ has arrived, everybody!

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>>375985758
>it has no use because it's old and modded, no one would ever have use for that
provide an argument worth arguing and then we'll talk

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They also sent him a bunch of merch and equipment, and a copy of Overwatch, if anyone cares.

Might as well have given him their whole game library, I mean, it's not like it's that big of a deal for them.

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>>375985439
>>375985478
>>375985529
So I could be emulating Halo 2 right now but I'm not because reddit? Well damn.

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>120th thread about it this week

>>375985758
>>375985834
>>375986000
What harm would arise if the source was put onto the internet? Why would you care, at all, unless you were working for blizzard legal?

Who could you even sell this to for money? The only way I could see getting money out of it would be to find some type of collector, and even then I question how much they could sell it for.

>>375986061
Halo 2 is on PC ya dingus.

>>375985985
look, I'm sorry your employer didn't update the handbook, but pepe isn't hip anymore and just outs you as a retard either way

>>375986061
maybe? cant say for sure but the reddit fag made sure it was definitely no.

>>375986019
>>375986073
Go find anyone who gives a shit about this whole debacle aside from a few /v/ users, I'll wait

Anonymity is going out the door and you know it

>>375985770
>Sparking interest back into the game for starters.
For who? Starcraft nerds in their mid 30s and Koreans?

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>>375986073
Nobody is saying there would be harm.

Everyone is asking you what the benefit of it being out there is.

But you keep deflecting.

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>>375985641
Do you even fucking understand what source code even is? Try getting a basic understanding of the topic at hand before making retarded posts.

If he sold it, /v/ would be screeching that he should've released it for free and that he's a greedy jew. If he released it on the internet for free, you guys would be saying that he should've sold it. You guys just want to get mad about something.

I agree that this sucks though, why do retards always get ahold of valuable items?

>>375986125
why did you tell him

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>these fucking kids who don't understand just how popular SC actually is

>>375986187
>for who the actual demographic LOL xD
are you retarded?

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>>375986204

>still not answering the question

>>375983476
I can't believe no one has said this yet but: No one who made Blizzard is at Blizzard. I know this is a hard concept but companies are made up of people. They are not ageless individuals.

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>>375986173
Hot damn that's spicy, underrated, and deep.
And true

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IT WAS """"""""""""""""""""STOLEN"""""""""

YOU STUPID GOY

>>375982826
And its the first time ive seen it.

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>>375986173
>find someone autistic, obsessed with starcraft, and good with computers
I mean I'm sorry I can't speak mars runes so I can't summon any here

>>375985641
The loss of the unknown is the treasure itself. We're a curious species. This shouldn't even be a question.

>>375983214
people payed 270k for macdonalds sauce because they saw it on cartoon big bang theory

>>375986173
Your second half of your post has 0 relevance to the rest
>>375986187
People who want to dissect the game code. The only thing that can be said for certain is we have no idea what could be done because the source is still closed.
>>375986195
What is the benefit of it being locked up? The benefit of it being out is people who are interested can do what they want with it, whatever that might be.

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>>375986160
>He actually took my post at face value
Anon, how fucked up are you to be suspicious of every single post?

>>375986073

What's so bad about giving it to blizzard? You guys are acting like he murdered a child but you can't seem to reasonably explain what he would have gotten out of releasing it and what come to fruition from it?

>>375986195
having the source code available would have no harm to gamers, and many benefits should someone utilize it which is pretty likely given its popularity.

if you need any further explanation on the subject it's honestly not worth anyone's time to give it to you.

>>375986343
>paid 270k for mcdonalds sauce
>cartoon big bang theory
wat

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ITT: People who are outraged, getting mad when people ask why they're outraged. Still don't answer why they're outraged.

What the fuck is he going to do with it? He's not a programmer and if he told anyone who was they'd probably steal it like the fat neckbeards they are.

>>375986273
If you knew about what you were asking, you wouldn't have this question.

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>>375986418
STILL

NOT

ANSWERING

THE

QUESTION

>>375983258
>>Sell it privately
>>What is the IRS
50k he could have made

what the fuck is he going to buy in a day that will alarm the IRS?

paying bills worth 2k in total in cash is not unusual in this country so what exactly around 50 thousand would alarm the IRS? He may be stupid but I'm sure he is not retarded

>>375983828
Just because fucking underage idiots like you dont know what to do with it, doesnt make it invalueabe

>>375986409
/v/ wants to get mad about something. They hate reddit and treat anything from it like a witch in Salem. They're mad a guy traded it for Blizzard Bux and a free trip to a popular con. The mega nerds assume the code would sell/hide some magical treasure, when in reality it's just a source code to a game not many people care about.

xbox dev kit hurts way way more, i hope that little shitstain gets robbed every day of his life

>>375986457
Because Reddit was mentioned, that's it. The Xbox Dev Kit couldn't have amounted to anything either, except maybe some translations. /v/ is hostile as fuck when you say the R word.

>>375986550
You ignored my post stating the benefit. Thanks for shitposting.

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>ree source code is gone
Okay why's that bad
>people could do things with it
Like what
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>375986440
Rick and Morty season 3 premiere (maybe), Rick references szechuan sauce from the 90s multiple times, retards went nuts, the fucking sauce started selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars on ebay as bottom feeders started finding their 20 year old sauce packets in and around their trash piles

>>375983408
>Do you know how much a house costs anon?
Do you? A decent house in a decent city will cost at least 500k.

>>375986601
>it's just a source code to a game not many people care about.
>lol who cares
Great argument faggot.
>They hate reddit and treat anything from it like a witch in Salem.
You are a good example of why.

>>375986376
I know you're being facetious, that doesn't change the fact that any cretin still spamming facebookfrog outside of /r9k/ is barely worth the oxygen they consume, and I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're simply an underpayed intern and not some retarded expat from reddit

damn /v/ is fucking retarded

>>375986031
Honestly kinda want that mousepad.

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>/v/ thinks a 80 year old game source made in the stone ages is worth money
when did /v/ become retarded

what a fucking retard, no wonder he is a redditor

>>375986728
>a decent city

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>>375982662
>RTS
>Good

>>375986780
>when did /v/ become retarded
Is that a serious question?

At least you're not Jace Hall, the guy who possesses the source code to Blood but is too much of a pussy to release it because Atari said no.

>>375986281
no companies are eternal authority figures and they always right no matter what.

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>>375986728
>city
lmaoing@ ur life you fucking loser

>>375985364
D: make a gorillion disk copies and upload it everywhere and trash all evidence I did anything

>>375986721
That's it? Let fans have their fun, dick.

>>375986551
i got this. Hed deposit the 50k cash in the bank immediately, which would tip off the IRS because it is over 10k. Cause he is fucking stupid.

>>375983826
Retard

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>>375986670
> The Xbox Dev Kit couldn't have amounted to anything either, except maybe some translations

they only made FIFTY of those alpha tower dev kits

there was a high chance there was original source code on there, it is one of the biggest crimes against gaming of all-time.

> you will never be able to emulate xbox-generation games on your pc in 4K with full online aka the last golden age of gaming before DLC/dev cancer took over

>>375986670

It couldn't have amounted to a functioning Xbox emulator, meaning we'd no longer being barred to 480p/720p with shitty framerates on Gunvalkyrie, Jet Set Radio Future, or any other Xbox exclusive? It was a dev kit, come on

>>375986780
The source itself probably wouldn't be worth a boatload, but there are more than enough collectors that would pay a pretty penny to own the actual master disc for such a famous game.

>>375986728
>what is downpayment

>>375986845
Isn't there a Blood source port out already?

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>>375982662
>A once in a lifetime opportunity
>Ruined because Redditors are fucking retarded manchildren
>There are people actually defending this Reddit stupidity

I hate humanity.

>>375986780
05/04/17(Thu)23:18:21

>>375982662
it was the right thing to do

>having morals

>>375986780
>Ultimate collectors item for a company notorious for its rabid fanbase
>Ultimate collectors item for one of the most popular games of all time

The modding programming potential I can only assume is good, but as an item of interest for nerds and collectors this thing would be worth a considerable amount on auction.

>>375986924
Why would the dev kit have helped emulation?

>>375986713

Mod the game you fucking retard.

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>>375986031
>give up vidya history
>get RAZER™ ricercrap and a bottle opener

>Find something that another lost
>Return it to them

Sounds like a good person to me.

How the fuck would one even prove it's legit?
>Hey guys I got this disc it has a source code on it 2m pls

The only reason why you're throwing a fit is because it was proven legitimate by Blizzard themselves. Otherwise people would have shat on him with some even reporting him to blizzard just to get his ass fucked

>>375987198
>Implying blizzard lost the source code

>>375986780
this thing is like finding the real Da Vinci Code in a bag of trash, someone would pay bazillions for it

>Sell code
>Get sued out the ass by Blizzard and end up worse off than when you started
>Give code to Blizzard
>Get minor goodies for something you'd have no fucking use for anyway
Seems like the right decision to me.

What did people expect would be done with the source code for Starcraft of all things? Do we really need Starcraft source ports?

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>>375982662
/mu/ here. Reminds me of the time Redditors harassed the one guy who had a copy of the ultra rare Godspeed You! Black Emporor tape off the internet by threatening to rape his wife and murder his family. Dude was a complete normies and was scared off the internet. We still can't listen to the album

>>375987163
It probably would have contained technical information about the Xbox and it's architecture, which would have gone a long way to helping emulate it properly. There is a serious lack of documentation for it's components.

>>375987174
Why would you want to mod an ancient RTS engine when there's numerous better options?

I would have done the same thing really. Emulators are for fags.

>>375987249
>Implying they didn't
Why don't you think we haven't got legacy servers yet?

>>375986031
>Razer
>Covered in Overwatch decals

It's like Blizzards wants to remind him that by giving that disk up they made him their bitch

>>375986551
>paying bills worth 2k in total in cash is not unusual in this country
Wouldn't they look at your yearly income and say wait how the hell did he pay that much when he makes little to nothing.

>>375987071
>>375987297
nobody cares about your shit for fags

>>375987308
That's a pretty big maybe. Dev kits aren't data repositories, they're hardware testbeds.

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>>375987163
it wasn't a regular dev kit sent out to like Capcom, EA or some dev for their games

it was a microsoft xbox alpha tower

they only made 50 of them and was used ONLY by microsoft for the Xbox OS and halo

there was more than likely some sort of source code on there for the xbox if not halo as well

even if it wasn't complete source code it would've CPR'd the xbox modding scene which is pretty much dead

>>375987381
Because some people still play said game or would get back into the game if their was a substantial boost in the modding community

>>375987174

Oh darn we can't mod a 20 year old game, I'm sure some basements nerd modder had 10,000$ burning a hole in his pocket waiting to be able to mod starcraft.

does anybody have any idea how computers work
who said anything about selling jack fucking shit
I don't give a fuck how much money he could have gotten for it - why didn't he just put it on the internet.

>>375987381
Tell that to all the people in Korea playing starcraft and dota or me firing up Age of Empire II right now to Persian douche some fags (almost never works)

>>375987461
look you're not payed to be retarded to /mu/, now get back to work pr monkey

>>375987291
First, read the fucking thread. He didn't have to sell the disk or the code, not everything is about money. Second, things get leaked into the internet all the time with people not being found out. Third, there are more benefits to the code being released than there are for blizzard keeping it on lock and key.
>>375987416
Because they are uninterested in giving people what they want.

>>375987470
Yeah, I'm sure such a testbed wouldn't have contained any technical information whatsoever.

>>375987297
> threatening to rape
what? why?

>>375987297
Its literally always the dumbest people who get rare shit or early copies of shit. Its like there's some kind of god purposefully fucking with nerds who covet things more than him.

>>375982662
Blizz has an excellent marketing opportunity here.
>Release the source code
>Be hero

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>people were only offering him 2k for it
maybe if people didn't jizz in his face with lowball offers this would have ended differently

>>375986031
ah hell ya they gave me a new keyboard, some games... oh wait my computer cant run those games/ I don't have a gaming pc.

>>375986598
>fucking underage idiots
>invalueabe

can't even spell the wrong word correctly kiddo

>>375984438
That doesn't suddenly make you immune to legal action

>>375987297
The guy went as far as contacting the music label to see if it was ok to upload the .mp3s.

It couldn't have fallen into the hands of a bigger moron.

>All these assblasted cucks in the thread
Jesus christ these threads should be a bannable offense. I can smell your bleeding anuses from here.

>>375987519

He probably does considering how popular Starcraft is in Korea.

Retard could have taken a flight over to Korea and made shit tons selling it to the chinks, more than enough to cover his flight and stay.

>>375987625
He got less than $2k in goodies so I don't see why he didn't roll with it

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>>375983258
Actually if you purchase a stolen item in good faith, the item is legally yours and you have no obligation to give it back to the original order under US and EU law. It would also be his right to sell it by extension.

>>375985297
The Original Xbox uses a proprietary filesystem that nothing else can read properly, which explains why nothing showed up on Windows.

>>375987714
if you consider jail time, lawsuits, and conscience (lol) then he got the better offer returning it.

>>375987675
Anyone who would go on reddit bragging about shit like that is a moron to begin with.
Rip it, upload it, be done with it.

>>375985463
I dunno, to me it kind of is outside the realm of possibility (not really) purely because of the required time, effort and resources needed... it'd be a big job and quite honestly not worth the focus shift or development time to any company.

>>375987627
>I thought that diablo case was a game
it.. it's just a fucking bottle opener?

>>375987485
>it would've CPR'd the xbox modding scene which is pretty much dead
So jack shit to do with emulation, only breathing life into a rightfully dead modding scene.

Eh.

>>375987795
Why would Blizzard sue someone over a 20y/o game? It's even free now

>>375987625
Looking at his history he posted to starcraft reddit first. And got only 21 comments and no one gave a shit at all.

>>375987832
>wanting Diablo 3 to taint your computer
yuck

>>375987536
Koreans playing SC2 don't want to mod it. They want to play it exactly how it is. You don't mod esports.

>>375987795
You assume he would have been found out

>>375985383
I'm going to be honest with you. If you replace Blizzard with Nintendo and eshop here you get /v/ to defend it the same as reddit does with this guy

>>375987595
It was a group of 14 year old edge-lords they were tracked down on last.fm

>>375987604
It may have been for the best. That fool probably would've broken the thing trying to transfer it. It's still hurts though

>>375987832
Likely threw in a few things that weren't selling on the shop.

>People sweating the IRS

Sure, thirty years from now they may catch up to you

>>375987837
3/10 for getting me to respond

the xbox/gcn/ps2 was the last "great" gen unsullied by corporate shitstain superpublishers

best sports titles, best racing titles, still good arcade ports, FUN 1st/3rd person shooters, RPGs, etc

all of that in 4k with online

lost forever because some faggot was too stupid to consider that the hard drive might have a different file system than modern windows 10

>>375987872

Same as the Xbox dev kit retard. Holy shit that site must be browsed by grade a morons. How can a sub board dedicated to a subject not know how important things like a devkit/source code could be. Fucks sake. Fuck reddit for even existing.

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>>375987932
posting a pic to his twitter is kind of like saying "hello you stupid fucks"

>>375987925
*SC, not SC2, durr

>>375987967
Well Reddit is in the right in this situation, just like they always are.

Go outside.

>>375985967
you could put starcraft onto toher consoles. for example, you could play starcraft 1 on mobile, or psp, or some nintendo handheld.

I'm sure there are retards defending blizzard for free, but do you guys get paid by hour or do you have some sort of employee performance tracker? I'm genuinely curious.

>>375988016
>all of that in 4k with online
It wouldn't have helped emulation, we've been over this.


>>375988094
Why would anyone want to play Starcraft on a device without a mouse?

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>>375988065
>going out in the sun
no thanks, I hate cancer

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>>375987675
Fuck, I forgot about him trying to contact constellation. It was so frustrating to try to pascify him on the legal shit and to keep the 13 year olds at bay.

>>375988065
You can be right and still make stupid decisions. Not sure what my location has to do with anything. Just seems like poorly thought-out ad hominem.

>>375988129
Whitey detected

>>375987872
Honestly, if it was posted here, people would have dismissed it as a troll/fake. As usual with most crap on this website.

>>375988042
If he was intelligent he would not have done that, since this entire thread is hypothetical anyways, we can only imagine what would have happened if someone smarter got a hold of the code instead

>>375988128
>>375988016
>wouldn't have helped emulation
Sure it would have. It wouldn't be a legal emulator. But an emulator nonetheless. PPSSPP is made with source code. CEMU is made with source code. Dolphin is a shit emulator because it refused source code.

>>375988125
I think it's hourly, like they outsource it to a firm like they would copyright trolling or advertising, some shill did a little leak here some years back on how they worked/marketed themselves to the corps, it was interesting but I don't have it saved anywhere

>>375985124
Not impossible - improbable. Hire a bunch of Chinese, and they'd return you a source code by the end of the year. Problem is that hobbyists interested in these games don't have the manpower or money. CEMU is a recent outlier.

>>375986195
theres many benefits to having access to source code of a game. in this example, unused missions/assets would be cool to starcraft fans. Emulation fans would be ecstatic because they'd be able to emulate the game on their mobile phone. Like, source code is a pretty big deal. for an average gamer it's really not a big deal, i get that. but for people that actually like this type of shit, it's a pretty big deal.

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>>375988217
>someone smarter
so that excludes everyone on /v/ and in the state of California

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>>375988128
Because some already have

>>375987872
not true

he posted on the gamecollecting one and they all told him to dump/save/archive it immediately

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/640iem/found_a_starcraft_gold_master_from_1998/

he's still a complete idiot

>>375988338
Basically, unfortunately

>>375987857
Why would they sue someone that has nothing to offer? Do they want to lose even more money? The game would have already been leaked at that point.

>>375988338
>taxing rawkets by mileage
that's not stupid, that's the most brilliantly jewish thing I've ever heard
>get rawket into orbit
>pay off cali's debt for the next century

>>375982662
I'm sure the good folks at Blizzard just tossed the disc into their storage closet with the other 500 copies

>>375984518
>-

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>>375986550
>>375986713
I'll spoonfeed you and every other fucking retard in this thread, but first we need to talk about compilation. When you write a program, you're writing source code, which is readable by humans but isn't more than just text to your computer. In order to run it, you have to use a compiler, which parses what you've written and turns it into machine code in the form of an executable. Compilation is a one-way process, and there is no way to return a compiled program back to its original source code.
Now, modifying an executable on its own without the source code is a tricky, time-consuming, and often extremely frustrating process. First off, since you can't un-compile a program (there are programs that try to do this before anyone says anything,) you have to deal with assembly language, which is more or less a 1:1 mapping to machine code. In assembly, the human-readable statements of high-level languages have been broken down into a long list of low-level instructions for the CPU, such as moving data between registers and memory and the like. Because a compiler strips away all identifying symbols in the process of turning the source code into machine code, these locations, which store variables, are unmarked, and you have no way of finding out what they do short of experimentation. When modifying assembly, you also can't add or delete any code because doing so would cause the rest of the instructions to shift, making the offsets used by them invalid.
This is where having the source code comes in. Because it hasn't passed through a compiler yet, the amount of ways it can be modified are near limitless. This includes adding completely new game logic and overhauls of the game's existing systems. While I don't give half a fuck about Starcraft, I'm sure there are many autists that do play it that would greatly benefit from a total rewrite of the game's terribly outdated netcode.

>>375988492
>instead of rocket they invent a giant catapult
>fling their shit into space
NASA wins again

>>375982662
kind of reminds me of the time my parents sold a beta black lotus at our yard sale years ago. Pissed wasn't even the word I felt when they didn't tell me after it was sold

>>375984116
kill yourself

they didn't even give him cash

they gave him 250 bucks in the fucking blizzard store. and blizzcon is just a fucking gigantic commercial for their shitty games

they truly jewed him on this one because he's an idiot

>>375988610
Don't bother arguing with these retarded redditors, it's honestly a waste of keystrokes

>>375982662
Yeah, but think about how many upvotes he got. That's worth more than all the videogames in the world.

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>>375983476
Hoard, not horde, you fucking moron.

Why do cunts always get the two words mixed up?

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>>375988714
250 bucks
imagine all the overwatch boxes he can buy!

>>375988610
>but first
Read that in Pannenkoek's voice.

>>375988815
kek

>>375988610
> Compilation is a one-way process, and there is no way to return a compiled program back to its original source code.
Strictly speaking this isn't true, but commercial closed source programs do obfuscate in order to thwart this.

>>375988694
As a MTG player I am fucking livid. Your parents are stupid.

>>375982662
>Nathan Grayson
He's that cuck who slept with Literally Who for favors, right?

> important piece of vidya history
> The company that made it now has it

How is this a bad thing? They'll either lock it away so it can never be touched, or use it for something. Either way, it's preserved.

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>36 (You)s
This is too easy

>over 250 replies
>no one has provided a good argument towards selling the source code

Ok, I admit it. I don't know anything about source code. Please tell me what valuable use it has in today's market.

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What would be the holy grail of source codes?

>>375986728

>city

do you love to surround by numales and dykes?

you know, I think you will be in good company.

>>375984116
>I was only pretending to be retarded
This is why normal people think gamers are 98% degenerates.

>>375989016
oh god, don't start the summoning ritual

What the fuck is with these Corporate dicksuckers in the videogame industry?
This shit is huge $$$$ but they ruin it ( like the xbox guy ) or return it (this faggot ) as if they actually care. If these businesses actually gave a fuck they wouldn't have lost it in the first place.
So tired of luckfags doing stupid fucking shit. It's like winning the lottery and spending it on dumb shit.
Holy fucking shit why can't I be lucky. Or at least someone not as retarded as these people.

>>375986598
What would you do with it?

>>375989024
Or they'll fucking destroy it or they'll fucking lose it like they did the first time.

>>375989063
See
>>375988610

Is this the equivalent to say, finding the source code to Mario Bros. or Sonic?

>>375982662

I am a moralfag, I could do the same. It's not a random item without proper identification.

Also I hate videogames and gamers so I don't give a fuck about the community.

>>375989063
Read the fucking thread you goddamn autist. He didn't need to sell it, and the benefits of it being out in the open far outweigh the benefits of blizzard keeping it in a dusty drawer

>>375987381
>openxcom releases
>modding communities comes to life and starts making total conversions
>suddenly a wealth of mods, many of which are great
>it revitilizes the game to the point that people are even fucking posting Lets Plays of it on /v/
Oh, but sure, who cares if we have source code to another classic when we could just slurp blizzard's cock instead.

>375989201
You're retarded. Not even gonna give your autistic ass a reply since you're fishing so hard for one.

>>375989024
>the company that made it

Blizzard now is not Blizzard then. Entirely different company. It is going to be destroyed before it could ever sees the light of day again.

Remember. No fun allowed. Blizzard is a company, not a studio.

>>375989201
Weren't those both programmed in assembly to begin with?
They wouldn't be as valuable on a technical level, but they certainly would be worth a lot more from a collector's perspective.

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>>375986780
In South Korea, Starcraft's source code would be like uncovering the Nag Hammadi library. And this chump may as well have set fire to the fucking thing.

>>375988747
Yeah, I shouldn't have wasted my time explaining to that detail, feel free to repost
it in any of these threads if you see someone being retarded though.

>>375988946
I'd say it's fairly true, the decompilers that are available aren't perfect and unless the program was compiled with debug flags or something else that stored the symbol data, there's no way to get the variable names back, which is a huge bitch.

>>375987470
It wasn't some simple devkit given out to people making games, it was one of the towers used to prototype the console itself. Supposedly there are about 30 of them in existence and any one of them could have irreplacable data.

>>375989068
Dark souls

Imagine creating a dark souls game with superior networking and the same feel.

>>375985967
people pay millions for pieces of art even though there's nothin you can do with it

>>375986924
So there's 49 others out there, you're crying over a 2% population drop

>>375989372
'Sup, /pol/?

>>375989063
Plenty of people have pointed it out
Also most people are saying he should have just uploaded the code everywhere for free

>people defending reddit
Why don't you faggots go and stay there?

>>375989372
Is your autism diagnosed yet?

>>375982662

Honestly, what could be done with the source code?

I could see it being a collectors item but once word got back to Blizzard, they would deploy their Private Military Contractors/Lawyers to breach the owners home, black-bag their ass and then take them to a Black Site and torture their asses to death.

>>375988492
yeah, a brilliant way to move space exploration away from your state.

>>375989068
Metal gear solid 5
Someone autistic enough will manage to enhance and finish making the game.

We missed out on the chance to what? Play mods for Starcraft? Might as well kill ourselves.

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>>375989372

>>375989372
mass replying is disgusting.

also the benefit of the source code only affects hyper starcraft nerds and not the retard in question. Hence why he traded it for no hassle and a gift card

>>375984113
Story on the Xbox devkit?

>>375989528
Read
>>375988610
You moron

>implying channers haven't done the exact same fucking thing
get over yourselves.

>>375982662

Dawn of War > Starcraft

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>Destroys

what

>>375987297
Can't have been that good if no one bothered making copies of it allt hese years.

>>375989616
sending it back to blizzard is basically destroying it

>>375989540
imagine that, all those leftover assets from cut content being remade into an extra playable chapter. or even if the source code for that new fucking survive game came out and they just merged the 2 games into a good MGSV experience.

>>375989068
Dark Spore, because the game otherwise no longer exists due to EA merchantry.

>>375989604
>channers
post one example, then get your ass back to lebbit you fucking faggot

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>>375989585

TL; DR niggerlips.

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>>375988906
Did someone say wheel

>>375986507
moving goal post.

hahaha

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>there are people here who actually believe Blizzard when they say it was stolen

>>375989293
A lot of the people who worked on SC still work there. Most of the programers still work at Blizzard including the lead programmer of Starcraft, Bob Fitch.

>>375989726
Source code is good for people who want to mod the game, for people who are interested about the game, and for anyone who wants to look at it.

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>>375982662
Real question is HOW did he find it in the first place? Wouldn't Blizzard have this shit unless an employee snuck it out?

>>375989068
at this point, /v/ related at least, it's exbax, it's the only major console before gen 7 with 0 working emulation
actually scratch that, the ps3, since it's going to be even worse to emulate thanks to the m.c. escher processing that made it impossible to dev for

>>375989783
not reading the thread

hahaha

To all the cucks that are wondering why this is bad. Outside of the mod and the "community will do it right!" memes. Source code is a great learning resource. The next dark souls, zelda or half life 3 (soon tm) could've came from some shitter learning from it.

>>375989651
not really

>>375986780
collection piece that's worth thousands
no more use than that

>/v/ is jealous of reddit : The Thread

>>375989851
yes really, no one can do anything with it now

>>375989372
mass replying is worse than being a payed shill or from reddit, or both

>>375989850
Key word here is "could've", as in, fucking nothing.

theyre probably inviting him to meet at blizzcon to personally laugh at him

>>375985364
>risking jail time and a potentially ruined life
For selling an item that isn't actually stolen?
You can't go to jail or stopped from selling an item that wasn't stolen.

Who the fuck cares? If it got leaked it's not like anything important would come of it. Probably "Balanced Starcraft 0.1 this is alpha please don't be too mean" where some retard who doesn't understand how to make video games changes a bunch of values and calls it a day.

>>375989893
finally someone who isn't afraid to say it

>>375989893
>Do something retarded
>Call you retarded
>lol u jelly
>>>/r/eddit

>>375983408
$250k unless you want to live in shitsville or on the flipside have banjo players for neighbors

I just want the source code for super mario's platformer controls

>>375989814

Thanks, senpai.

If I wanted to read Charles Dickens, I would.

I come here for the dank maymays and QT22/7s.

>>375982993
>>375984214

Dude, what world are you two living in? He wasn't going to get shit for it, and the second he did, Blizzard would have sued him and whatever money he got into oblivion.

>>375989893
I'm not jealous of the potential money in selling it; I'm mad that devs won't be able to learn from the code and improve future RTS games. Think about the effect id software had by opening up their code.

>>375987198
Well in this case he returned it to the alien wearing the skin of old Blizzard.

>>375989825
apparently he was buying old blizzard games on disc, then got sent this by accident.

from what i assume, most game dev's just go "ok game has been released lets move onto the next shit" and usually sorta forget about past work assets. The most likely occurence is that, the team building starcraft 1 all left at some point but didn't take the Blizzard property (source code etc) witht hem. then when the new team comes through they are like "whats all this shit? not mine, not my problem, not my job." and just throw it out, or place it somewhere in storage for 10+years till a janitor is like "hey cool whats this?"

to me, it's like, when they made these games they weren't thinking of the future like "oh keep these files on hand we're gonna remaster the game in 10 years"

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>all the responses to those that would have wanted the retarded redditor to sell it would be "jail time" and "getting sued"
>when there is no indication that those two outcomes would ever happen to him
Is this truly the mark of a marketer? Throwing around various consequences? Almost as if a company would do, if you wronged them in some way?