“I came across this at a very sad point in my life, it was on a hard drive on a vintage computer I bought off Amazon,” Marshall explains on the expansion’s GitHub page. “Literally this essentially saved my life, I was going through a divorce and just happen[ing] to come across something like this was insane.”
I am amazed this dude uploads it on a place like Github and even provides his name in the hopes of scoring a job. I will also be amazed if he doesn’t get sued for the rest of his earthly posessions.
Yeah, I’m sure he’ll be sued for a quadrillion bazillion dollars for publishing an alpha version of a canceled expansion for a 2005 game, the engine of which is already open-sourced.
Businesses do not care about any of that. They don’t even care if it has been out of production since 1952. If they own it and you upload it, they are absolutely looking for a way to get money from you. All the money.
Many companies hoard IP like dragons hoard gold.
Going bankrupt? Cool, I’ll buy you for pennies on the dollar. What am I doing with your IP? I sit on it with the rest of my IP. Because maybe somewhere in the future I might make a little extra cash off of it. No, I do not intend to ever sell any of the media I own the rights to! I’m too greedy for that, you cannot even look at my IP!
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Better download it now before they get it pulled
Hal???
It was the only one I could find with a good framerate and I was hoping no one would notice lmao
It might as well be his doom (pun intended). Can’t Activision file a lawsuit against him for uploading that on Github?
Well, now he must be quaking in his boots!
He heard the call and did his duty
But was he prepared to be under their overwatch?
He should get a medal for his honor.
That medal comes from a dishonored company, so it wouldn’t count
What a world…of warcraft.
Makes you want to escape to the outer worlds.
Seeing as he obtained it legally, albeit by accident,
I think it would be whoever sold the hard disk that’s at fault.Granted, IANAL and the American legal system is fucky.Edit: Yeah I’m not a lawyer.
Nah that’s not how that works. He might have obtained it legally and accidentally. But he made the decision to then distribute it. He can most definitely get sued for that. If you want to distribute basically anything, you need the right permissions / license for that.
He doesn’t hold the copyright so has no right to distribute it. Like if you bought a manuscript from a book you don’t have the right to print copies of it and distribute it. Since you only are the owner of that specific manuscript not the copyright and distribution rights of the actual content.
Just finding something by accident doesn’t give you the right to publish it.
If you found someone manuscript in the drawer of a desk you bought, you would not gain the right to publish it, it still belongs to the person that wrote it. Physical possession has nothing to do with the right to distribute, that is IP law that goes back a hundred years.
Okay well would he at least be in less trouble than if he’d made any money off it?
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This is like those “I found a hidden safe in a wall in my home” posts on Reddit but specifically for gamers and I love it.
I had a blast with Q4 and been waiting over 20 years for the next Quake. Guess this will have to do.
For now we have another Quake 1 expansion pack
And it plays out well instead of getting Geraldoed.
Maybe it can be ported to the latest idtech
Quake 4
I forgot this game even existed. It wasn’t very good tbh
No way, that game was awesome! It was actually my first quake game and the story and bosses were really cool. The scene where you’re captured was so cool and brutal.
The Strogg were such a good enemy. Loved the idea that they used body parts of enemies to make their soldiers. I’d love to see that concept with modern graphica.
Yeah exactly! It was shocking and cool to see an alien species harvesting humans and other animals. The Strogg seemed like a real alien military society. Half Life 2 is maybe a bit similar but I have to assume you’ve played it :)
Honestly, I wonder who would win. The strogg or the Combine. I feel the strogg with how they could make use of the bodies of Combine soldiers.
I dunno man, the combine have access to portals and other dimensions and shit. Either way I’d pay to see that fight!
I replay it every now and then as a part of my normal rotation. I still can never remember what the final boss is like. The mid game tower boss is much more memorable. The core problem with Q4 is it had an idenity crisis. It was trying to be a classic Quake game, a CoD-like and a Halo-like all at the same time.
I played it recently, and enjoyed it. It wasn’t quite what I wanted out of a quake game, but as a standalone sci-fi horror game, it’s a thoroughly fun romp
Fuckin baller man
