Freelancer Source Code
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The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one, they said…
… they watched from far away, and slowly, but surely, they drew their plans against us…
How about… Let’s just keep quiet and keep what we have, eh lads?
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Honestly you may have a better chance at gaining release rights of creating a Clone of an initial game concept and run it as a first edition. Not sure if I am remembered anymore but I and Peacekeeper created Universal Modding that seems like ages ago. We went down every avenue we knew of to gain the coveted source code from Microsoft and was shut down at every turn. I am lead to believe one of 2 things;
1. Microsoft may be holding onto the source code to do a 2nd edition at a time of their choosing.
or
2. Digital Anvil (the original creators that Microsoft bought out) still retained a certain level of control dis allowing Microsoft to go any further thus shutting down all avenues of possibility.
You have a good thing going here. My best suggestion to all of you is to keep on keeping on and dropping the idea of the elusive source code altogether. Hard pill to swallow I know but it saves from wasting time beating the same horse. If I did not believe in what you were doing here I would have never allowed anything to be taken from Universal Modding data files to be used here.
On another note:
Hello once again to all my friends. Life has been busy for me dealing with other projects but as we know that is how life goes. To FriendlyFire, Cheeseontoast, RooAvery, LancerSolarus and many others here I just took a look and I say good show. Keep up the good work!
Grim
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You know that they already know that we’ve already by-passed their Global Server and I’m sure that M$ knows everything anyone’s doing when it comes to Freelancer.
All they have to do is Google it at anytime or, use their own resources. You can bet they monitor everything they have owned or ever created. No doubt in my mind.
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we use their codes, we use their idea and we recreate what they worked with.
honestly, were breaking their rights any time we do something. and if we are not, than they have the men to convince any judge, that we are.
but there is one thing we overlook time after time: noone - repeating - noone is yet after us. this can mean to things
either
they don’t care about it
or
they like what we do here and that their game is kept alive so successfully such a long time.is there anything in one of these cases we could be unhappy with?
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This might enlighten…
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StarTrader wrote:
This might enlighten…Read it and got a copy of it. Had it for a long time.
Just like my signature is actually M$ but, I use it anyway for personal use and I’ve yet to get any flack about it. Even being registered on a Microsoft forum, I’ve used it.
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anyone tried to contact the FL developers?
After all that’s how free space 2 source was released from what i remember
Info about the devs in Freelancer Fan Site Kit
O and M$ does not care about there old games the Demo and The fansite kit that are deleted form there server explains it all and the same goes for starlancer and Allegiance source and other stuff plus the MP server removal plus starlancer site has only the intro
http://www.microsoft.com/games/da/starlancer/ after that page not found -
oh yes, there were tryings to ask for the source. many, many, many times, 2009 even once again. no result. regardless what it is why they keep it, whether a new game or selling or whatever, they just make use of their rights and we have no chance to get to the source this way. hard but fact.
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for one thing we are keeping this game alive. slso for every new player we recruit another copy of freelancer is sold. plus they hasve to be happy with all the new developments people are doing with this game. there is no harm in leting people let theyre creative juices fly and create bigger and better effects. it be a crime not to let people mod the game and develop it to keep it alive. this is problably the most easiest game to play and to get into thats what kept me here so long. also this game requires so little resources and does not tax your computer as alot of the newer do.
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It’s got nothing to do with money, microsoft game studios policy is to never release source code, nothing is going to change that.
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them not wanting to sell rights to use the source is not exactly true.
i approached them a few years ago about licensing the source for freelancer in order to create a sequel. I had the financial backing and everything else in place. they were quite eager to sign a deal, i even talked with MS Game Studios about it and they were eager.
the problem is they could not find it. In other words, they (at the time, basically lost the source code for the game).
it took nearly 8 months of back and forth with them to finally give up the ghost on looking for it.
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J.Walker wrote:
the problem is they could not find it. In other words, they (at the time, basically lost the source code for the game).
huh common problem with microsoft stuff
So let me get this straight. They would be willing to sell it if they could find it? lmao I just had an image of microsofts’ offices looking like something outta one of those shows about pack rats
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in search for a knee in a haystack one could let a madman behind the consoles of a maglev train drive through Springfield, innit?-)
surely, when some ItAliens reboot Windows de Linux then Sicily goes flying over the Rock of Gibrough’uh into the Azores High while the Scandinavian lion is poking fun at the Norph-American emu of all things. Cricket, mwuhaha.
Capm Walker? couldn’t you give an order so some tractor beam can whet a whistle? ey, thi’s not normal i’d say. SS Megascrape is rowing. …along wiv Friday the twelve and a halfth, country n western shards and good looks. American foobolle, one step forwertz and three in the back, phrow me away loik.
Seven of Nine is flinǵing a Fool House with a fleeing navy of Borgroomers. That’s so funfair. Kangaguru of Oz in the treetops? hurl us a bunch of boomerangs, do us a high-fave. …all engines on akimbo. Where’s now the magic h