Make EQ Open Source

fransisco · Feb 21, 2024

Hey X company - you should give up all your IP and make it free for everyone! Let anyone upload stuff to your servers, that won't ever cause problems!

Bobokin · Feb 21, 2024

Angahran said: ↑

“So you want the game ruined by out of control automation, script kiddies and bots?

If you want that then feel free to go to any of the 'live' servers.”

FIFY

Xianzu_Monk_Tunare · Feb 21, 2024

Venuhm said: ↑

“yeah, thats why by invite only might be an idea. give some outside devs access. Keep control but get the input/Code fix's. pure voluntary basis and DBG maintains full control.

I mean, the current Devs are having one heck of a time getting very basic stuff done. maybe a round table of veted 3rd party Devs and they get limited access to code the current team is having a hard time with. something to stop the bleeding! like, they could issues a temp login token to a person that allows them to log in to Test and run thru some issues with Code access. i dont know. just a dream!”

Then it is not open source.

Act of Valor said: ↑

“The emulation servers like P99 have way, way, way less cheating than official live EQ servers.”

Keep lying to yourself.

alanus · Feb 21, 2024

JetZeppelin2h said: ↑

“That isn't how it works. I think if they made it open source it could get worst for a short while because the hackers would have full access to the code to see what they could exploit. However, the way open source works is everyone would know those flaws and people would fix them instead of just leaving them alone.

I get the feel you think people would add flaws to the game on purpose if it was open source but that isn't how it works.

Unlike fully open source software if they allowed people like myself who are software engineers work on it we could find and make patches to fix things like bugs, flaws that allow hacks, etc and then we would submit a fix and other open source devs would need to approve these changes. Once they are approved by the random devs it would be submitted to DPG and they would give the final approval for the fix to go live.

They could also limit which code people have access to so it isn't like someone is going to take the time and setup their own EQ game servers and everyone would jump to it even if it was free. There is a possibility of it but limiting certain pieces could stop someone from making a full exact copy while also allowing players like myself to fix bugs we see in the game.

Heck if you want to pay us give us DB Cash or krono based on how many fixes we make. I would even be cool with maybe some special new artifact type items being created and given to devs who help make the game better.”

With how convoluted the source code is and how small the staff is these days, I doubt that it would do much good to cut down on exploits. All it would do is show more bad actors how it works and how they could exploit it.

MasterMagnus · Feb 21, 2024

I think all the files you need are already out there.

Venuhm · Feb 21, 2024

Xianzu_Monk_Tunare said: ↑

“Then it is not open source.

Keep lying to yourself.”

Glad you took the time to read the reply's before replying~

Venuhm said: ↑

“not sure why that matters. My choice of words is wrong i think though. Code sharing? Google, Facebook, Nivida, Amazon and 100s more of publicly traded companies have a Github for Code debugging”

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