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by XorNot 27 days ago
Its not pressure to release the source code. Its that they need to release the server so anyone can run it.

From Day 1 any Doom client could be a multiplayer server and this is how it worked for almost all games - Descent, Quake, C&C etc...
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Manuel_D 27 days ago
Right, but presumably the Doom and Quake server code was written by id Technologies themselves. That's not the case with a lot of modern multiplayer games. They license middleware like Photon Engine and don't have the rights to redistribute the server software, even in binary format.

I guess they could just strip our the parts of the server code that they don't have the rights to redistribute, but then it wouldn't be functional.

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db48x 27 days ago
Or just not use that kind of component in the first place. There are bound to be alternatives that they could use and redistribute.
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