Second, while I'm sure they do perfectly good work at CD Projekt, I have a hard time believing that they're doing anything groundbreaking. As a game dev myself, we do some interesting work, but very little that I think stands alone, out of the context of our engines. We're not Epic, which would be a totally different ball game.
Third, what do you do with the source once you have it? I suppose it might make it slightly easier to pirate their game, but not so much
You are completely missing the group of people that will pay for objects illegally gained simply so they have them. Whether they do anything with the object is completely irrelevant - for all we know a Blue-ray with the code burnt to it will be lit up in a display cabinet somewhere, next to some moon dust and T-Rex bones.
This is honestly the most likely reason in my mind. You'd have to be a rich collector, but even then, how do you display this? What do you do with it? Print it out and mount it? Put it on a diamond studded USB key and carry it around with you?
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Who would pay? (Score:2)
First of all, who has the money to pay for it?
Second, while I'm sure they do perfectly good work at CD Projekt, I have a hard time believing that they're doing anything groundbreaking. As a game dev myself, we do some interesting work, but very little that I think stands alone, out of the context of our engines. We're not Epic, which would be a totally different ball game.
Third, what do you do with the source once you have it? I suppose it might make it slightly easier to pirate their game, but not so much
Re:Who would pay? (Score:2)
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This is honestly the most likely reason in my mind. You'd have to be a rich collector, but even then, how do you display this? What do you do with it? Print it out and mount it? Put it on a diamond studded USB key and carry it around with you?