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posted by dsk on March 30th, 2008 at 11:34PM

>Free and open source are, obviously, mandatory criteria.

Obviously?

Currently I'm playing World of Warcraft. Apart from that, I wouldn't mind picking up some RTS classics like starcraft, warcraft 3, Generals, or Age of Empires/Mythology, also Unreal Tournament was awesome.

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posted by rick on April 2nd, 2008 at 3:26AM

So to permanently hijack this thread ... :)

Recently I've been playing Starcraft, Generals, and Age of Empires III. On the 360, I got bored with Mass Effect and I might start Lost Odyssey when I get the chance. I've also been playing Rock Band and Super Smash Brothers Brawl at some friends' places.

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posted by dsk on April 2nd, 2008 at 10:50AM

But ricky, none of those are open source..

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posted by dennisn on April 2nd, 2008 at 11:34AM

Correct dsk. Bzflag tonight? My sister is in :).

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posted by dsk on April 2nd, 2008 at 2:34PM

Just tried it. This game is a piece of shit - I'm out.

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You tried multiplayer? by dennisn on April 2nd, 2008 at 8:31PM.

Yes. by dsk on April 2nd, 2008 at 9:25PM.

I had the same initial impress by dennisn on April 2nd, 2008 at 9:43PM.

I second,
posted by pasofol on March 31st, 2008 at 6:44PM

what ^ said.

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posted by dennisn on March 31st, 2008 at 6:56PM

Unacceptable. Paying for binaries, aside from being too expensive and far less portable, is moreover unecessary and endorses an extremely inefficient way of doing things, in light of the open revolution. This thread is for free and open games ONLY.

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Unfortunately:
posted by pasofol on March 31st, 2008 at 7:49PM

money talks and develops things. If corp didnt invest their money into computers so on, then we wouldn't have much of the products that the open source runs on. I'm not saying there can't be good open source games, I just find it pointless to knock out all the games that were developed and sold for money just because that was their intent. Money is spent on development to get a return or in some cases because it's a pastime passion but that doesn't happen too often(open source)(have a felling I'll be flamed for implying not often). There seems to be more pressing matters than open source to take a political stance on. Plus seeing as I can't recall you "paying" for a single game you never really supported the nonopen source product by simply playing it.

Don't feel like going into this deeper at the moment but I think I made my point as badly and non transparent as possible so I'm done.

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posted by dennisn on March 31st, 2008 at 9:58PM

I know money talks. I also know free software talks louder. The feeling of ownership, and involvement, and power that you get from an open game simply doesn't exist with binary blobs.

Moreover, free software is an incredibly important matter to take a stance on -- it is the freedom to be able to use your own computer. It's scary how little people appreciate this.

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I'm not saying there's by pasofol on April 1st, 2008 at 9:05AM.

You should have a problem with by dennisn on April 1st, 2008 at 11:09AM.