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Originally Posted by Endoperez
I don't see how lack of Dominions 4 will make Dominions 3 obsolete. Domininions shouldn't become obsolete as long as it is the best game of its genre.
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I agree to that. Dominions 1 and 2 have both been rendered practically obsolete by their successors, but other than Dominions 4, I see no reason that the game would become obsolete in a long time.
I have no idea about the actual numbers of how many copies are being sold per week or per month, but I'd expect that it would make no sense to have the code become public domain unless it was several years after (!) JK and KO stopped caring about the game. It's an extremely rare thing to happen that a company does this step, too.
That being said, I know that there's more than one tech-savvy person, not counting me, who has interest in the code and would probably develop it further in a few areas if JK would stop the development. Since I'm not giving any names, I feel free to quote somebody here:
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Of the many programs for which source code isn't available, I've found the lack of it for games to be the most frustrating. Most games have a very short economic life-time before they cease to be published and updated, and then the player community is completely helpless if there are remaining bugs or desired features. I wonder if there is some way to convince companies to allow access to the source code for old games, even for a license fee.
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I doubt that it would be that hard to work with the code. Aside from few things (Nagot gick fel!), and ignoring what the comments would look like, if there are any,
it seems to be mostly in English, and not too much of a beast that one won't be able to dissect it and do some minor changes.
I don't reasonably expect that the code will be released in the foreseeable future, though, not within the next 4 or 5 years, at least.