Bullshit. This really makes me angry. The open sourcing of Id engines has been the best thing happening to (open source) gaming in years and some morons still claim that it has all just been a plot to make the game drown in cheats. This simply is a _ridiculous_ small disadvantage to all the good it has brought to the community. Many new engines and even games have been developed based on this, not to mention the knowledge that interested persons could gain from it. There is even a very interesting commercial role playing game in development, which wouldn't have been possible without the open source Quake 2 engine: http://www.prairiegames.com/ouroboro wrote:same reason Id releases the source to the previous engine when they make a new one. i hate to say that coz i'm a total Carmack fanboy, but it's only logical.
Just because you don't care about the communities and projects resolving around open source Id engines doesn't mean that it hasn't been a great gift. It's also very "logical" that Id keeps paying punkbuster to keep away the cheats from Q3, heck even will continue to pay them after open sourcing the engine, because they want their old games to die... Yeah right!