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I don't know of any precedent where players bought the source code from the publisher (this has definitely never happened with Ubisoft). The most we can do is draft a collective appeal on behalf of the "most dedicated fans" requesting the publication of the source code or the development of a reissue/remake. But it is unlikely that Ubisoft management will go for such charity (in the case of publishing the source code). We can only hope for hacker groups, which not so long ago leaked the code from Ubisoft's Watch Dogs and Rayman. In response to a request from one of the players on Steam, the moderator replied as follows:

Yep. In case of Ubisoft isn't going to make remaster. Can company publish sourcecode of the game (ToTE 3.1 version) so that fan community would enhance some aspects?
Hey Alfredo M,
Thanks for this!
We cannot make any guarantee any source code will be made publicly available, however we'll pass this feedback onto the relevant teams for consideration.
Thank you![/quote]

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We can only hope for hacker groups, which not so long ago leaked the code from Ubisoft's Watch Dogs and Rayman.


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It's nice to hope for something that will never happen. This way, you will only wait for death.

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Jewily
Quantomas does what he likes. He writes theoretical articles about AI in games, philosophizes. A patch corresponding to 3.05 (since he said that he could independently update his AI to 3.1) has been around for about 10 years, judging by various sources. Apparently, this guy just messed up the existing code, made what he needed, and is happy. Just imagine what it's like to update a game alone. Even when you visually know how it should be, it will take a long time before you understand how it works. If he has a full source code, then it will be a mess. It is possible that part of the code was rewritten from 3.0 to 3.1 (this is indicated, for example, by the appearance of some script functions in 3.1, which could not theoretically be implemented in 3.0). And having only version 3.0, it is very difficult to rewrite the code so that it corresponds to the original. Moreover, he may not have the source code in the form that we think. After all, none of us worked at Nival and did not follow the internal development process.
For him, his AI is a creation, an object of admiration, and your specializations are uninteresting to him.
It would be better if he gave it to the community, since he doesn't plan anything anyway (and even if he did, he wouldn't be able to do anything, it was just a matter of time, sooner or later everything gets boring). Regarding copyright, it's complete nonsense. How many years has the game been around? Who does it even need, except for a couple of old-school fans on the forums? On the forums... in 2023... Both the publisher and the developer have long since gotten everything they could from sales. Ubisoft has long since given up on the entire series, sensing that no more profit can be extracted from it without corresponding investments, why would they need it, it's easier to churn out multi-million dollar profitable games. As far as I remember, the game itself was created by Nival on their own Silent Storm engine, which they also modernized. So, I don't understand how Ubisoft is involved here. Both the intellectual property and the code itself should belong strictly to Nival, Ubisoft is just the publisher, they did not buy Nival, like NWC—3DO. So, with a high degree of probability, this guy is just annoying and unpleasant, and he was simply waiting for a profit. If he quietly passed all this to the community, without making a fuss, no one would have even known about it. He would never have received it, first of all, himself, if everything was so serious.
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