Minetest on Steam

[Dragonop]

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minetest is not a "game", it's an engine.
it just happens to not have any games included with the engine except the minimal "minetest_game".

We would still be showing a low quality game to the public, and most Steam users are not going to get easy on us because of some excuse like "it's under development", "Still not final version" "It's a free game". And yes I know it's an engine I have been here long enough

Anyways, why would you want to put Minetest in Steam if it's an engine and not a game? I also know that it also sells other kinds of software, but you get my point

(steam) Delivers a range of games straight to a computer's desktop

And yes, I know this is not a good answer, but it is as valid as your argument.

[lisacvuk]

I've got (Another) idea. Why don't we wait till version 1.0 (first version playable without mods), and then reconsider this? I think this thread should be locked for now, and left for future Minetesters as a reminder of a dark era, era of 0.x versions.

[kaadmy]

@lisacvuk +1

[Dragonop]

@lisacvuk +1

[firefox]

@lisacvuk +1

[Morn76]

According to Google Trends, interest in Minecraft has peaked now and is slowly waning: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=minecraft

So by the time MT finally hits 1.0 (and Steam), eight-year-olds worldwide may very well have decided that the whole block-building sandbox game trend is over and sooo 2011.

[Minetestforfun]

Minetest needs to be bundle with more subgames and with great and different subgames, this is a fact...

But if people comes from Steam, they can also connect to public servers :)

[Neuromancer]

According to Google Trends, interest in Minecraft has peaked now and is slowly waning: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=minecraft

So by the time MT finally hits 1.0 (and Steam), eight-year-olds worldwide may very well have decided that the whole block-building sandbox game trend is over and sooo 2011.

It's even worse if you look at Minetest: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0wdr3h1&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B6
Terraria is trending up:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0gttlrk&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B6

[Morn76]

According to Google Trends, interest in Minecraft has peaked now and is slowly waning: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=minecraft

So by the time MT finally hits 1.0 (and Steam), eight-year-olds worldwide may very well have decided that the whole block-building sandbox game trend is over and sooo 2011.

It's even worse if you look at Minetest: https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0wdr3h1&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B6
Terraria is trending up:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0gttlrk&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B6

Yes, celeron55 has said he saw declining downloads for each new MT release. I blamed forum builds (which he did not include I guess), but yeah, looks like MT peaked in 2014.

Moreover, stampy peaked in January 2015 (https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=stampy) and Captain Sparklez also peaked sometime in 2014 apparently (https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=sparklez). So it might be a trend.

Terraria is still trending up slightly, but I don't know if this indie-based return to 2-D gaming isn't another fad, especially with Oculus Rift getting released this year. What's nice in 2-D though is that you can judge jumps better and also enemy mobs cannot sneak up behind your back.

[lisacvuk]

I use PPAs to download minetest. Probably most Debian based users do.

[Jordach]

I think the problem is, we've done the tried and tested method. (Ayy, pun.)

Secondly, Terraria has a metric shit-ton of content. MT anc MC, by comparison, does not.

We need content, not an empty base game. What's a world without life, entertainment, a purpose?

[Morn76]

We need content, not an empty base game. What's a world without life, entertainment, a purpose?

There are plenty of early access games on Steam that are still heavily under development, so that should not be a problem. It's actually a good thing because players can still influence the direction a game takes.

The bigger problem is probably that early access games on Steam are expected to mature quite rapidly, i.e. over a time span of a few months. Open source projects like MT tend to develop at a more leisurely pace and cannot really keep up with small startups where developers code all day and sleep under their desks. Especially if those people also use a ready-made game engine for 3-D graphics and physics, instead of rolling their own like MT does.

[redblade7]

Terraria is trending up:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F0gttlrk&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B6

Wow. I had no idea there was such a thing when I set up my similarly-named server.