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VeilStrider Jan 12, 2015 @ 8:24pm
Did they really lose the source code of HOMM + All Xpacs?
I find it's a bit disturbing in a modern era, source codes like that lost without even a big disaster.

Didn't they hand over the codes as well when 3DO went bankrupt?
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Engwathang Jan 12, 2015 @ 8:30pm 
Not the base game. Only the expansions
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Luis Jan 12, 2015 @ 8:46pm 
New World Computing went kaput on 2003. Losing a defunct company's product's source code is not unexpected.
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Engwathang Jan 12, 2015 @ 8:48pm 
Originally posted by Luisfius:
New World Computing went kaput on 2003. Losing a defunct company's product's source code is not unexpected.
Um. Ubi bought it in 2003. The last expansion was in 2000. Do you really think that in just 3 years, they lost the code? And by the way. They lost it. Stuff that is lost CAN be recovered
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Luis Jan 12, 2015 @ 9:15pm 
Originally posted by Engwathang:
Originally posted by Luisfius:
New World Computing went kaput on 2003. Losing a defunct company's product's source code is not unexpected.
Um. Ubi bought it in 2003. The last expansion was in 2000. Do you really think that in just 3 years, they lost the code? And by the way. They lost it. Stuff that is lost CAN be recovered
Yes.
It is quite believable that source code for it was lost.
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Illimitus Jan 12, 2015 @ 9:34pm 
It's also believable that it isn't lost and pressure from Ubisoft / the fans will cause it to be found.

Stuff people think is lost gets found all the time.
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Engwathang Jan 12, 2015 @ 9:48pm 
Originally posted by Illimitus:
It's also believable that it isn't lost and pressure from Ubisoft / the fans will cause it to be found.

Stuff people think is lost gets found all the time.
Exactly
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hornet Jan 13, 2015 @ 12:52am 
IMO its a lye. If the HD redraw of RoE took them 30K hours just calculate how much time it would cost them to redraw all the expansions. Ubi cant release only RoE in HD and the rest untouched :) So i expect a future DLC's for additional bucks...
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Drunken Farmer Jan 13, 2015 @ 4:56am 
The dog ate my homework; a complete history of Ubisoft on Amazon for $9.99
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bloodraven43 Jan 13, 2015 @ 5:03am 
they didnt lose anything. if this sells well, they will magically appear out of thin air.
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Don_ko Jan 13, 2015 @ 5:37am 
let me tell the story.
Everybody knows about the FORGE (maybe not everybody) - a cancelled town for AB (conflux was planned to be in SoD).
around 2012 somebody leaked alpha-version townscreen with all sprites and supporting files in the net.

if materials from unreleased town were avaliable after 12 years, I hightly doubt they have no source codes.
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Engwathang Jan 13, 2015 @ 5:39am 
Forge <3. I play it with VCMI from time to time
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Don_ko Jan 13, 2015 @ 8:47am 
Originally posted by Engwathang:
Forge <3. I play it with VCMI from time to time
those unfinished zombie abominations? lol.
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Engwathang Jan 13, 2015 @ 8:49am 
No, more like mechanism creatures that looks awesome!
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Achrdili Apr 13, 2020 @ 5:39pm 
source code has been found, they just don't care.

https://twitter.com/diskblitz/status/920801845349466113
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Engwathang Apr 14, 2020 @ 10:42am 
Originally posted by Achrdili:
source code has been found, they just don't care.

https://twitter.com/diskblitz/status/920801845349466113
True. They hate the Heroes fan community...
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