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Originally Posted by Fincuan
In the case of F4 the dev-team was by the way disbanded pretty soon after release and before patch 1.08 was out, but as a parting gift they pushed out the patch working on their own time. Coincidentally the source-code for the game was also leaked pretty soon afterwards, allowing modding to levels we can only dream of in the SH, and pretty much any other, series of games. The F4 modding scene would be very different today without that "leak".
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Yeah, without that parting gift I would have learned my first lesson not to buy games anymore before the last patch is announced, but luckily at that time it went by well. It is actually the only time that I can recall having bought a product that was that buggy as they are typically nowadays. But I honestly have changed my buying habits since the the rise of internet and "customer-side beta-testing" a lot and keep watching the forums of new games for months before I decide to buy.
But one thought I had here is: If it obviously takes modders to convert the SHV into a submarine simulation, then Ubi could be consequent in that they release the sources, too, and have the modders be able to do their worked properly and not patch it together...
Is the Falcon 4 source code then public by now? I'd be too curious to check how they did it...