Not only would it cause a bunch of players to create crappy rip offs, it would also be very easy for someone to dig through the source code and find an expoit and use it.I don't see the point in making it open source. People could make fake scam websites easier, people could make fake copies for bad intent, etc.
If the server would close down then there could be a reason to open source it.
Open source is no doubt easier to find exploits with, but it is a double bladed sword since it also helps good people find and patch bugs on their own. This is always a hugely debated thing for Open Source vs. Proprietary and in all actuality, it balances itself out perfectly in the end or it removes exploits quicker than the malicious users can use it.Not only would it cause a bunch of players to create crappy rip offs, it would also be very easy for someone to dig through the source code and find an expoit and use it.
You have a good point, but there is one major flaw in you argument, that being there haven't been very many cases of large hacking cases that take advantage of that (badly written but you get the point). Think, the Mars rover that nasa put on mars a few months back, runs a version of linux on its computers - if open source software makes it easy for people to find security flaws in software then why is it that an organisation ran by the USA government (ish) uses linux.Not only would it cause a bunch of players to create crappy rip offs, it would also be very easy for someone to dig through the source code and find an expoit and use it.
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