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Quantum Lock suspends sales due to developers losing access to source code
(store.steampowered.com)
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So many games are lost in time due to this.
My favourite game off all time, Homeworld, got remastered years ago. Its fantastic follow-up, cataclysm could not be included in the renaster. The reason? Lost source code. No backups, studio got bought, diveded, merged, shut down and nobody thoight it prudent to safeguard that what they bought; the code and ip.
It happens. Often.
The fact that Blizzard was able to piece together a reconstruction of WoW Classic v1.12 is more of the exception to the rule.
Ugh buyouts are terrible.