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The community won the battle, so PvP battler Fishards is now open source (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17747926

Back in June the developers of Fishards put out a bit of an ultimatum: fight them in-game and win to make the game open source, or they will nuke the game from orbit.

Thankfully, the community came together, and won. So now Fishards has been made open source, and it's still free to play on Steam too.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

While I definitely appreciate seeing a game go open source instead of being lost to time, I am furious that they gated that outcome behind challenge, and especially that they were explicitly threatening to delete the game. It absolutely screams "we don't actually care about game preservation, but we know our fans do, and we'll exploit that to make them dance for our amusement". That has very much put them on my "never support" list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The idea that they would have actually deleted game is a little naive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you threaten to do wrong by someone, that's wrong regardless of whether you are actually willing to follow through and regardless of whether people accurately guess whether you're willing to follow through.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Perhaps you are incapable of understanding tongue in cheek humor.

Stop being a reactionary single cell for a change and think rationally for a moment.

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