[Question]What do you think if Minetest becomes famous?

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[Question]What do you think if Minetest becomes famous?

by MineYoshi » Mon Jul 18, 2016 23:26

Justly a question that came to my mind...

If Minetest becomes famous, how would be the things, famous as Minecraft...
What could happen?

What's your opinion?
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Re: [Question]What do you think if Minetest becomes famous?

by Tmanyo » Tue Jul 19, 2016 01:46

It will never happen, as Minecraft is a game that you must pay for and Minetest is free and open source. It is like Chrome and Firefox, more people will always be using Chrome.
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Re: [Question]What do you think if Minetest becomes famous?

by Onyx » Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:36

Hi all,

Yes indeed Minecraft is a paid game and takes advantage of many
advertising media but the number of players decreases (a priori).

If Minetest develops new features, I think Minetest that happen to
exceed the game under paid license.

And after ?

I don't know, maybe more players and more developpers, it would
not be a bad thing and I think this game deserves it imho.
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Re: [Question]What do you think if Minetest becomes famous?

by Byakuren » Wed Jul 20, 2016 01:07

Maybe better and more mods, which will encourage modding practices and libraries that promote compatibility, similar to Minecraft Forge.
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Re: [Question]What do you think if Minetest becomes famous?

by taikedz » Wed Jul 20, 2016 13:55

Tmanyo wrote:It will never happen, as Minecraft is a game that you must pay for and Minetest is free and open source. It is like Chrome and Firefox, more people will always be using Chrome.


May I point at Apache vs IIS ; experts-exchange.com vs StackOverflow ; MySQL vs MS SQL ....

I guess you could point out that the tech world operates a little differently from the games world, but the pay-for factor alone is not a be-all-end-all.

As with many things, it's about the community involvement and "evangelism" as well as the main organization (of which we currently have none), so it's still possible. We just need a compelling offering.

There has been debate as to what to include in the default game, but what if we left the default game alone for this purpose and built a single special "Mega Minetest", as super-pack if you will:

A community-driven effort to define the Introductory Experience which

    * would be a 1-click download from its own website
    * includes many mods confirmed to work well with eachother
    ** a subset of which are are activated by default (farming, playeranim, uskins, dmobs, mesecons for example?)
    * be Windows-focused (I am a Linux user myself but I see where the market still is)
    * point at a dedicated wikia, URL distributed in the game (I know there's already a wiki, but this would be to encompass ALL the mods)
    * maybe an educational edition incorporating rubenwardy's modding manual and some notes for teachers?

The regular minetest game development can continue independently of course - this would really be just a re-packaging. It could even just be a Python script that pulls the required binaries. launches installers, and configures the setups as appropriate!

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Re: [Question]What do you think if Minetest becomes famous?

by MineYoshi » Wed Jul 20, 2016 19:32

Nice idea!
But of what I am a bit worried about...
Is the community, i mean by now the community is great, but if Minetest becomes famous, the community can be better or worse...
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