A recent blog posting over at Stropp's World brings to a meeting the common gaming feature of open sourcing and MMOs. In the post titled Open Sourcing The MMO Game, Stropp poses a most interesting question: "Why Don't Publishers Open Source Their Defunct MMO Games?", and follows through with his own opinions as to why some of them should be.

Over the years there have been a bunch of MMO games that have closed down. Earth and Beyond, Auto Assault, and Asheron's Call 2, to name but a few. None of the developers or publishers behind these games, to my knowledge have ever released their MMO game as open source - despite, in some cases, calls from the player community to do so.

Open Sourcing The MMO Game