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

[MineYoshi]

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?

[Tmanyo]

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.

[Onyx]

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.

[Byakuren]

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

[taikedz]

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?

[MineYoshi]

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...