MaxLightning wrote:Out of curiosity what is the point of not releasing the emulator? Unless NoFate plans to make a profit on it in the future then is it not by all means pointless to not share the code? I suppose it could be about pride and street cred'. Haha.
There are multiple problems if this were to ever become open source (examples from aIW are noted):
a. Multiple people would start making their own master-servers for the project, and simply take the open source client and make it connect to their master server, and do nothing else.
b. That would split the user base, and neither of these master-servers would actually have a proper user-base, so the users would leave.
c. People would take credit for NoFaTe's work, which really isn't fair and leads to... a lot, of arguments.
fourDeltaOne vs alterRev is a good example of such, might want to look at that to see how the
a. Open sourceness of IWNetServer and
b. The leak of aIW's source code
lead to such a fiasco.