Jakssoul wrote:I asked this in the IRC, but nobody cared to respond.
Minecraft, which costs TWENTY DOLLARS, has MILLIONS of registered users. This forum has 3,849 at the time of this post.
How is it that this game, with a wonderful support community, (VanessaE being a great example), being OPEN SOURCE, and having all the mods it does, doesn't have a massive following? I've been playing for a few days, plan to continue playing for a long time, and Minecraft has NOTHING compared to this! Free and Open Source? Come on! This game should have a cult following!
Jakssoul wrote:I don't know about better at the moment (lots of bugs), but it's still INCREDIBLE. For it to be free and open source.. I mean, come on. This is absolutely fantastic.
kaeza wrote:Hi and merry christmas.
Well... this problem is experienced by *any* FLOSS project. The problem is that no one is doing "marketing" bullshit with us. We are just proud cheapstakes (no offense intended, I am included in this group myself). The best we have to do "marketing" is to tell a friend "Hey! You gotta play Minetest! It's an awesome game!", and show him/her the game and try to attract him/her. In contrast, Mojang (the company behind MC) has tons of resources to actually reach a wider audience.
The only solution to this problem IMHO is either make a real company aware of us, and convince them to start "supporting" (read "advertising") Minetest, or do it ourselves.
EDIT: Just to make things more clear (and to not make this post offensive to sensitive people), by "proud cheapstakes" I mean users/programmers who are proud to be writing software for free, just for fun, or whatever ideology you have.
kaeza wrote:Hi and merry christmas.
Well... this problem is experienced by *any* FLOSS project. The problem is that no one is doing "marketing" bullshit with us. We are just proud cheapstakes (no offense intended, I am included in this group myself). The best we have to do "marketing" is to tell a friend "Hey! You gotta play Minetest! It's an awesome game!", and show him/her the game and try to attract him/her. In contrast, Mojang (the company behind MC) has tons of resources to actually reach a wider audience.
The only solution to this problem IMHO is either make a real company aware of us, and convince them to start "supporting" (read "advertising") Minetest, or do it ourselves.
EDIT: Just to make things more clear (and to not make this post offensive to sensitive people), by "proud cheapstakes" I mean users/programmers who are proud to be writing software for free, just for fun, or whatever ideology you have.
Jakssoul wrote:Advertise how, exactly?
jojoa1997 wrote:Minecraft has been around longer, has more mods, and is in the 1.8 instead of 0.4. Though minetest is still better.
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
Jakssoul wrote:Advertise how, exactly?
jmf wrote:Jakssoul wrote:Advertise how, exactly?
Minetest T-Shirts!!!
I like the idea of selling minetest t-shirts in internet.
The money earned with this will go to the development
and the t-shirts advertise minetest and are cool.
Idea for a t-shirt theme:
On the front of the shirt:
The dungeon master and the text "Here, have a fireball", or the minetest logo.
On the backside:
The "minetest-c55" label as found in main menu.
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
Ragnar wrote:i have an idea for all of you website owners, make an ad on your index.html, if theres more than 1 index.html (like on my site) then do it on all of them =)
LorenzoVulcan wrote:jojoa1997 wrote:Minecraft has been around longer, has more mods, and is in the 1.8 instead of 0.4. Though minetest is still better.
I think minetest has got more mods than minecraft and they're easier to install.
Minetest is not much better than minecraft because of its raw performances and little bugs.
Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA?
rubenwardy wrote:
imo, minecraft mods are not real mods because they require decompiling and compiling of the source.
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