GPL games don't really make sense (Score 3)

Ok this is my first post to slashdot. Be tender, be gentle, be rough.

Games just don't fit in with the open development, because their whole appeal is suprise. How interested would you have been in the plot of American Pie if everyone had sat around for 6 months discussing how it should end. The key point of entertainment is to be original. GPL is about taking someone elses ideas and improving them. No one would watch Armageddon again just to see the really cool new ending someone thought up. (Guess I forgot Meteor, or was it Asteroid) The point is that games, like all forms of entertainment are about creative flashes. Their not about a plot that everyone knows five weeks in advance. Unfounded rumors are part of the excitement about a new game.

I'm not against the GPL as far as the core game engine goes. A GPLed game engine with encryption for the data sets would be a great thing because it would allow for game programmers to build their games in secret, hiding those cool little easter eggs. A few people might hack the data sets, but it would stop the vast majority from having the plots, levels, secret codes, etc. from being spoiled for them.