Talk:EA releases source code of classic command and conquer titles

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Hey @InTransparencyWeTrust unless something changes in regards to the mission statement the fear is that evaluating something as postitive is adding extra subjectivity to the discussion and that it could be translated as promotion/endorsment. So positive practices are not something we want to include as far as I understand Kostas (talk) 17:35, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

You are right, feel free to remove the article from the wiki. InTransparencyWeTrust (talk) 18:57, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Alternatively, as @Keith pointed out, this article could be included as an example in a theme article relating to video game preservation. We have a page on the Stop Killing Games campaign, would that be a good place to include a reference? The type of this article is still an incident. InTransparencyWeTrust (talk) 09:05, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Copying the conversation between me and from discord just to have it on here as well:

I conflated the discussions on "good products/companies" and incidents when thinking about this. My hesitation stems mostly because the criteria for inclusion focus on the consumer protection aspect so they are not as well defined for the positive incidents.

In the case of valve the move was correcting an anti-consumer practice they previously engaged in so its easy to determine its worth including.

If we do include such incidents then maybe having some sort of connection to the negative practices would help have a basis.

For example in the C&C case open sourcing the article helps keep the game alive without the company having to support it so a case could be made that it is helps in order to make the game available for longer to those who made the purchase previously (via community patches etc)

> Keith:

> Yeah, they also host it and have those old games free to download from their servers, i agree though that it's harder to directly relate than the steam situation. maybe it would 'fit' best as an example in a theme article which relates to something stopkillinggames-adjacent. I think it's mostly something they did because the community was about ready to up sticks and leave after C&C 4 and all that followed lmao

I do think that the StopKillingGames article might be a good place to include a section on this. I am still unsure on the general approach we should have on the positive practices articles. But since its very related to the topic of the campaign it fits there. Though that in itself is an incident article that might be better turned into a theme article. In any case I was wrong to mark as irrelevant, its just that a bit of organizational work might be needed to properly fit these into the wiki. Kostas (talk) 09:29, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Great, for now it has been added as a section on video game preservation, with a main article link for the theme article that can be created. Beside what EA did I also included the recent developments by Valve, the source code of Team Fortress 2 is also available now. InTransparencyWeTrust (talk) 11:38, 10 March 2025 (UTC)