Vanilla Freelancer
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there is a GOG wishlist
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Doubt it. If they had wanted to, they’d have done it by now, looking at how many games got re-releases from them. FL probably wasn’t enough of a commercial success to be worth re-releasing with all the work that that entails (especially since the GLS is down).
Plus, a re-release would almost invariably break every single one of our offset hacks.
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trying never hurts
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FL currently ranks 15th place on the ‘most wishes ever’ list, so I’m sure its commercial success is not a problem.
The GLS they would more then likely include our community fix,
We might lose some of the Freelancer.exe and FLserver.exe offsets, I’m sure mods could deal with that simply by shipping the same exe’s we always have.I have no doubt the only thing holding holding GOG back is Microsoft
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They cannot use our community fix because that’s running off a private GLS. To endorse it would open themselves to legal repercussions if the GLS were to be hacked or had bugs. They’d need to reinstate their own GLS.
And we’d lose all offsets, not just some. In order to make the updated version compatible, we’d have to ship every single dll and exe file the game uses, which would effectively make us ship a pirate copy of the game with every mod.
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Well what I mean is the files containing offsets we use (content/common/server.dll and the exe’s) we already ship anyways. I don’t see the difference with what we currently do when giving a mod to someone who has installed vanilla FL from the CD without the official 1.1 patch. (maybe I’m missing something though)
For the GLS even if they didn’t include it, it wouldn’t take long before someone had it posted in the GOG forums as a community addon, thus removing any legal responsibility for them.
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it would be enough to ship it the way it original was released
or better
the way the ubisoft release was done (to prevent issues with the copy protection and windows 10) -
I mean if that assumption is true, sure
My personal feeling is that they have the code, but don’t want to touch it because of an unclear licensing issue (remember the OpenFlame stuff we found out years ago?).
