Not always, Star Wars has been reverse engineered and brought back online. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swgemu.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;index.php" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swgemu.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;index.php</a><p>Useful commented server stuff would be nice, but the least they could do just drop the server blob and let the community figure it out.<p>Needing to reverse engineer the servers is the hard part.