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"I came across this at a very sad point in my life, it was on a hard drive on a vintage computer I bought off Amazon," Marshall explains on the expansion's GitHub page. "Literally this essentially saved my life, I was going through a divorce and just happen[ing] to come across something like this was insane."

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[-] Smaile@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Fuckin baller man

[-] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 37 points 4 hours ago

I am amazed this dude uploads it on a place like Github and even provides his name in the hopes of scoring a job. I will also be amazed if he doesn't get sued for the rest of his earthly posessions.

[-] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 49 points 5 hours ago

Better download it now before they get it pulled

[-] KssioAug@piefed.zip 29 points 5 hours ago

It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can't Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?

[-] AmyAye@nord.pub 10 points 4 hours ago

Activision and Github are both part of the same company too. Maybe a different Git would have been better.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

No? GitHub is owned by Microsoft

Edit: I'm wrong. Apparently Microsoft owns Activision blizzard?!

Oh no...

[-] AmyAye@nord.pub 8 points 1 hour ago

Sorry you had to learn this way.

[-] myster0n@feddit.nl 13 points 4 hours ago

Well, now he must be quaking in his boots!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 4 hours ago

He heard the call and did his duty

[-] KssioAug@piefed.zip 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

But was he prepared to be under their overwatch?

[-] msage@programming.dev 2 points 3 hours ago

He should get a medal for his honor.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago

That medal comes from a dishonored company, so it wouldn't count

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Seeing as he obtained it legally, albeit by accident, ~~I think it would be whoever sold the hard disk that's at fault.~~ Granted, IANAL and the American legal system is fucky.

Edit: Yeah I'm not a lawyer.

[-] Thorry@feddit.org 6 points 2 hours ago

Nah that's not how that works. He might have obtained it legally and accidentally. But he made the decision to then distribute it. He can most definitely get sued for that. If you want to distribute basically anything, you need the right permissions / license for that.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

He doesn’t hold the copyright so has no right to distribute it. Like if you bought a manuscript from a book you don’t have the right to print copies of it and distribute it. Since you only are the owner of that specific manuscript not the copyright and distribution rights of the actual content.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Just finding something by accident doesn't give you the right to publish it.

If you found someone manuscript in the drawer of a desk you bought, you would not gain the right to publish it, it still belongs to the person that wrote it. Physical possession has nothing to do with the right to distribute, that is IP law that goes back a hundred years.

[-] Arras@nord.pub 8 points 4 hours ago
[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 7 points 4 hours ago

I just want XCOM 3 and dishonored 3… is that really too much to ask for?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 4 hours ago

You just need to convince Satya Nadella that it'll be profitable. Like, billions of dollars in ROI profitable.

[-] Thorry@feddit.org 4 points 2 hours ago

Why? He's been pushing AI like crazy and I don't think anyone has seen an ROI on that?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

That's why you need to convince, not show proof :)

[-] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 4 hours ago

All the original devs are gone, it would be a shell of its former self. If the original developers are still together somewhere, we would be better off getting a new IP.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

What do you mean "gone" did I miss some kind of dev genocide after 2005?

[-] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 1 hour ago

Yes, lots of layoffs and devs just moving on.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Ah, so they still exist, but because they aren't still making stuff for you they no longer have any right to the things they created. Got it.

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Why? Xcom has its first game released in 1994. The IP has been around for a long time.

[-] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 1 hour ago

Because the industry has changed a lot over the last decade and XCOM would be more likely to be dragged through the dirt than to be faithfully resurrected.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Technically we already had XCOM 3. Apocalypse wasn't half bad, despite the weird realtime/turn-based combat system.

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