Goldmoon Dawn on 29/6/2009 at 05:10
Quote Posted by jtr7
It's for the
Thief fan community to take the fan missions and other projects important to us to a whole new level, by finding ways to remove the imposed limitations of software designed for ten-year-old computers, and exponentially expand the already fantastic creativity in this community.
Ever heard of something called a dollar sign?
Because you just described it in exquisite detail. I was raised to believe that the company acts and reacts to potential profits and/or loss of potential profits.. Gotta be careful with this one, it's a monster. :ebil:
jtr7 on 29/6/2009 at 05:13
We've offered to pay for it.;)
Goldmoon Dawn on 29/6/2009 at 05:41
How does the amount you've offered them compare to the possible amount of a repackaged product with your implications worked in? They could have their own team retool the system for modern computing and sell it again to (most of) the existing fanbase. I know I would buy an official The Dark Project product reconfigured for Vista. Let's see what happens when they "find" the code. lol
jtr7 on 29/6/2009 at 05:49
You think they're gonna spend the hundreds of thousands to do that, not including setting up a facility with equipment and amenities, before hiring, training, and marketing? You get a bag of Cap'n D's spice, or what?
Goldmoon Dawn on 29/6/2009 at 06:05
I would need some sort of verification of your information and figures before responding to your questions. :)
SunBeam on 29/6/2009 at 09:18
@jtr7: DromEd IS the actual SOURCE. I'd help put up a project to turn its code into C++ code, which could be easily done with a disassembler - comparing release version to dromed one (Thief 2 main executable is a stripped down variant of DromEd - cheat and editor functions are missing, but the rest is the same). As I said, I need a hand people that know a bit of code reversing - 2-4 MB is quite a time-consumer challenge, identifying functions that have been kept in release of T2..
Cheers..
Volca on 29/6/2009 at 09:59
A tool would be needed for that first (unless you want to burn your eyes looking at the assembly). (
http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/) Boomerang is dead, (
http://idc.sourceforge.net/wiki/) idc is too. Some commercial ones exist but are way too expensive. The only alternative I see is taking one of these and reshaping it to the task. Legality of such operation is problem as well.
Namdrol on 29/6/2009 at 10:15
Ian Livingstone, the Life President of Eidos is a gamer and a good guy.
He's someone to contact. I'm gonna do a little biog over the next couple of days for those interested and then find some contact details.
MoroseTroll it might be worth letting him know what we want and why.
Jah on 29/6/2009 at 11:00
Is that the same Ian Livingstone who did the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks in the 80's with Steve Jackson? I guess that's not surprising, considering that Jackson also ended up in the video games industry (as co-founder of Lionhead).
*Zaccheus* on 29/6/2009 at 11:05
Quote Posted by Goldmoon Dawn
I was raised to believe that the company acts and reacts to potential profits and/or loss of potential profits.
I see no reason why a company's
only motivation should be financial profit.
