why the need to redo virtually everything?

[navis]

I have wondered for a while now, why is it needed to recode all the game world itself in order for it to be playable?

I my main guess is that this 'emu' is a complete reverse engineer of the project, but why??

Is it really absolutely required to do this reverse engineer/emulation?

Am I being completely unreasonable thinking that out of 100's of ex mythic employees not one one of them thought to make a backup of code for such a dark day?

The only other thought is that this team of bright developers actually *want* to do this to potentially make the game even better (ie: fix bugs that Mythic could not)??

Thoughts to ponder but I don't think they will lead to anywhere but more darkness..

[PartizanRUS]

Shitpile of mythics won't share their code, they all fear of being sued. They don't care either, good thing EA kicked them in the butt from their office.

[killsaw216]

Actually. Its not Mythic.. Smart stuff. Its EA, and Games works, Mythic. lets people use DAOC freely and so on on free shards so long as they dont charge people. but.. since you know every thing shitpile..

[MaxHayman]

EA own all the code, and EA don't like sharing. If any of the old Mythic employees were to leak any code I'm sure they would be in a lot of trouble. The only option at the moment appears to be to make everything from scratch. This also allows us to change pretty much any aspect of gameplay, if we want to.

I've got basic RvR going on my local server, and progress going at a steady pace.

[dimzard]

Don't like sharing . So many egoist in EA...

[Lazyfimfim]

Business is business, when money comes like a river, you don't like to share.
You're a great team guys, and i'll support this project as i can. But you have to continue like that :p

[wonderful]

Actually. Its not Mythic.. Smart stuff. Its EA, and Games works, Mythic. lets people use DAOC freely and so on on free shards so long as they dont charge people. but.. since you know every thing shitpile..

Right but Mythic wouldn't release it because of Games Workshop.

[Lazyfimfim]

Well, now, it's not about Mythic no more :'(

[wonderful]

Well, now, it's not about Mythic no more :'(

R.I.P. Mythic.

[JeFawk]

Such a bad thread, very very bad. Much bad, huge bad, wow.