I love video games. If I am not playing video games, I am reading about them, or listening to podcasts about them. But it is a completely fair statement to say that gamers are, by and large, entitled assholes. Not everyone that plays video games, but more than enough people that identify as gamers are objectively…

“Native American trade deal” is an amazing failed attempt at being PC.

It doesn’t matter what the true value of the disc is, if it was still legally Blizzard’s property. This metaphor is out of control. Basically, he did the right thing by returning said property to rightful owner. The rewards were a complete bonus and Blizzard was not required to do anything of the sort.

Can you name one instance of the source code to a still actively maintained game being leaked that didn’t result in some sort of consequences for the leaker? It’s different when something like the System Shock 2 source code leak happened, because that was for a game that wasn’t even fully playable on modern computers,…

Do you just throw darts at a board with words on it to determine what troll sentence you are going to type?

And I believe Blizzard will be “more than likely” to always have one extra Blizzcon ticket for him.

Name them.

“...robbing future generations of a historical artifact...”

Your reply is inappropriate and rude. You should think more before commenting.

This is an asinine comparison.

Just noting something here. Considering if they put him up in a nice hotel, likely by the Anaheim Stadium and pay for cross country airfair, and let’s assume since they’re VIPing him they first class his trip? That’s a compensation of 5-10K alone. On top of all that loot. Which is NOT a bad return for being lucky…

Blizz didn’t pull any deal. They got sent a disk and decided that he should get rewarded for it. They could have just done nothing.

That’s a funny example, since there are specific laws regarding bullion salvage that address the precise situation you’re talking about, and the law is equally clear on stolen intellectual property.

Except they didn’t trade him anything. He willingly gave them back their own code, expecting nothing, and Blizzard decided to reward them.

Explain how I’m wrong please. How leaking IP is “ok” because “internet”

Do you honestly think they would just keep the physical disc somewhere where it will deteriorate and the source code will be lost forever?

#itbelongsinamuseum

Bit late after you’ve posted about it on Reddit.

There’s only one reasonable thing to do with the source code. Replace all unit graphics with penises.

And they would have locked your ass away in jail, rightfully so.