It is if your company aggressively lays people off / closes offices so fast that it becomes difficult to locate source code of any game not actively promoting a new battlepass.
Setting aside for a moment that the proposal is not retroactive. That line of defense sounds more like a self own for whoever would make that excuse. “We have the laziest and scummiest business practices imaginable- there’s no way we can keep all the puss out or stop putting chaulk in our milk.”
It’s not reverse engineering if you wrote the code.
It is if your company aggressively lays people off / closes offices so fast that it becomes difficult to locate source code of any game not actively promoting a new battlepass.
Much of the game industry…
Setting aside for a moment that the proposal is not retroactive. That line of defense sounds more like a self own for whoever would make that excuse. “We have the laziest and scummiest business practices imaginable- there’s no way we can keep all the puss out or stop putting chaulk in our milk.”
The title changed, and the article got an edit at the end saying they used “reverse engineering” incorrectly.