/lv/ - Libre Vidya

I don't like to recommend games without having first played them and properly reviewed their licenses.

However, I have never played an MMORPG and don't intend on playing them all just to make a proper recommendation.

If any of the following do not release full (at least client side) code under a libre license, please inform me so they can be removed.

http://crossfire.real-time.com/

http://ryzom.com/

http://www.worldforge.org/

http://www.planeshift.it/

http://www.mystonline.com/en/

https://www.themanaworld.org/

http://childrenofur.com/

http://www.deliantra.net/

https://stendhalgame.org/

http://www.other-life.com/

http://www.evolonline.org/

http://invertika.org/

https://www.daimonin.org/

http://illarion.org/general/us_startpage.php

http://lipsofsuna.org/

https://www.atrinik.org/

https://www.themanaworld.org/

Again, I have never played an MMORPG so these are not recommendations, just a list of some MMORPG games I found. There are further still many RPG games with online play but not MMO apparently. Sorry for not being very helpful.

I can only emplore other Anons to help you find what you are looking for. Good luck.

>>1199

Thanks dude, that is more than I found on my own so far. Would be interested to know some of the rpg games with online play but not mmo category as well if anyone cares to list some.

I wonder which of these have the biggest populations

>>1199

>lips of suna

the game is dead and is more of a single player.

It is pretty much libre, the Author was even kind enough and provided the blend files, so you can mod it a bit

>>1206

This is top on youtube. It's worth a watch.

>>1198

Were kitties less cute than they are now back then or was the author not good at drawing kitty kats?

>>1226

He understood all cats are evil

>>1198

"Libre" kinda goes against a lot of the design principles of an MMO, anon.

>>1227

Kitty kats are cute.

Young girls (child) are cute.

Are young girls evil?

>>1233

Yes, that's why parents sell them, to be rid of them.

>>1230

I can't see why, unless you mean marketing principles, and even then you can properly secure everything serverside and opt not to release the server software.

>>1198

Yo OP, which did you like most?

Planeshift is pretty good, I started playing after seeing it here. I tried to get ryzom but what a pain in the ass.

What is a libre mmo anyway? Is having a fully libre client enough to be considered libre, or does the server side need to be libre as well?

Or is this a moot point since you can't actually check that the server is really running what it claims to be running.

>>1349

Well that's where the AGPL comes in. You could have full GPL server & client code but it doesn't matter because you will never see the server code anyway. Projects with AGPL server code would be fully libre multiplayer games in the truest sense because you will understand the software you are using even on the server side. The "software as a service" debate is a tricky area and often comes down to individual circumstance and specific scenarios.

The devs behind PlaneShift are shifting development to a fork based on Unreal Engine 4. Things are moving at a glacial pace since it seems only one person is working on the necessary code, but it's happening.

http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=42121.0

Once this goes through, Atomic Blue won't be able to use the GPL license like they do with the current engine (Crystal Space) because UE4 has an EULA that makes its code nonfree.

From a dev:

>I would love to have a fully libre engine, but seems these days it's not possible as there is no valid alternative. We could develop it ourselves continuing to expand Crystal Space, but bringing forward two projects can slow down our progress a lot. At the end we are making this project for the enjoyment of the players and we should keep this objective in mind when making any choice.

>>1380

>no valid alternative

What in the fuck! Is he fucking high! What a cunt!