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Originally Posted by WhiteBlaster
So whenever you play the game you have to see all those advertisings, and if you pay attention, you'll see how cunningly they are written and placed: in most of the cases sooner or later they start to convince you to buy. Now try to imagine the effects they would have on a six-year-old child that plays this game quite often: of course, it isn't brainwashing, but it still remains a merciless half-subliminal advertising, in my opinion. Am I wrong?
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Yes, you're wrong. It's called "shareware". It's a method where you give people part of the game for free so they can try it out and let them purchase the rest if they like it. A very big portion of PC games from the JJ1 and pre-JJ1 era did it this way.
Regarding the source code: It's far more complicated than just putting the .c files in a zip and uploading it to J2O. There's legal issues involved, it was made by separate companies that are now more or less competitors, it's questionable whether the full source code even still exists, they'd have to get permission from all parties involved, there's probably contracts with companies that licensed the source code, they'd need to decide on an appropriate license to distribute it under, and so on. There's no gain in it for Epic (except some goodwill perhaps), and there's not quite a huge demand for it either.
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