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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?

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.

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.

Maybe better and more mods, which will encourage modding practices and libraries that promote compatibility, similar to Minecraft Forge.

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!

Thoughts?

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...