Originally published at: Margaret Thatcher-themed DOOM mod removed - Boing Boing
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Also RWNJ gamers are some of the most entitled whiny babies, and for the sanity of their CS team, it’s probably worth removing.
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She’d work equally well as a Wolfenstein 3D villain.
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Yeah, Dukakis wore it better.
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There’s a deeper issue here that I think needs highlighting, and that I think Doctorow would have been all over.
This “New” version of Doom that Bethesda have released is now the only way to buy the game new. And the thing is, unlike the original release, where John Carmack, an advocate of FOSS, released the engine source code as open source allowing for the wonderful proliferation of the game and glorious stories of Doom running on everything from toothbrushes to vibrators, this new release is on the proprietry Night Dive Studios engine, KEX.
Which is most definitely not open source.
I see this as Bethesda attempting to close the door that Carmack opened, as over time, the only way people will be able to get a hold of the original assets required to play Doom legally (themselves very much not open source), will be to buy the KEX engine powered version of the game.
And there’s now nothing to stop Bethesda moving to prevent users from extracting those original assets for use with one of the myriad open source ports.
This whole exercise has been very much about regaining control of what they view as their intellectual property.
They’ve seen thirty years of Doom modding, and they want to monetise it ALL.
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If it doesn’t show up in Pluralistic in the next few days, pitch it to him on his mastodon?
At least in the short term I believe all the assets are on the Internet Archive, but their legal bills are rapidly becoming higher than their tech bills.
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