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At this point, it should be open sourced officially. Look at all the good that came from ID open sourcing the doom and quake source code.
It's not like Far Cry is a particularly advanced engine with tonnes of secret sauce by today's standards.
Hey can I ask you more about what was the good that happened? I donโt know about it but seems interesting!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't the original Half-Life based on this engine?
So, Counter-Strike wouldn't have existed in this form, and DOTA 2 wouldn't have been made in the engine it was.
Conversely, Warcraft 3 also had a modding scene where DOTA sprung from.
So, probably a lot of Valve's games wouldn't have seen the light of day, and they wouldn't have had the capital to make Steam.
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Half Life uses a derivate of the Quake 1 engine called GoldSrc, it has completely nothing to do wit the Far Cry engine, not even remotely
Isn't that exactly what the guy I responded to was requesting info about? The good open sourcing the ID engine did?
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Don't be so hard on yourself :) Other people might have the same inclination as you Hashing out the details in the comments almost always helps with clarity