FTB and Forge - Curse Partnership.

[DZCreeper]

Someone get this women some coffee, she has important things to do like convince Slow this is a terrible idea.

If option 1 is not possible, at least moving to Curse will give the team more to make new packs and get back to making maps.

 

[Gaz_]

wait, who gets the $2? Does each team member get there own cut of it, as i would like money to go towards a cup of tea.

 

[AlanEsh]

I'm all for anything that adds to the chance that the FTB team will stick with making great modpacks for years to come. If that means I have to close a few annoying popups in the forums or in the launcher, so be it.

 

[Sirstas]

Will the older packs ( ie: 1.4.x and 1.5.x) be available after the move?

 

[Ruyuna]

Honestly, I think this is a good idea. There is always going to be something about a business decision not everyone will agree with or be happy about. Can you honestly say to yourself that its a bad thing? Some of the features are things I've seen the community asking for. I fully support whatever decision Slow and Lex make at this time.

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[Bubbleo]

I wonder if FTB will actually finish anything they plan???

• So Far Launchers not even finished been promised for too long to remember, now they are talking about another launcher (will they ever finish either who knows)
• A online shop that has a single page of items and the remainder is still "coming Soon" seems to be thier favourite catch phrase along with "When Its Ready"

How about just getting some actual follow through with whatever you decide to plan instead of making all these fantastic sounding plans and commitments but never really fully delivering what you promise. Sure ya got 1.6 packs out pretty much had no choice in the matter as you knew you were losing support from the community. Seem more worried about getting partnered with all the popular places instead of fulfilling what you promised over 12 months ago which is yet just a fart in the wind.

 

[AlanEsh]

Wow Bubbleo, go get your free programmers somewhere else then k? If you don't appreciate these particular volunteers, I'm sure there is another batch you can whine to elsewhere.

 

[QueWhat]

I wonder if FTB will actually finish anything they plan???

• So Far Launchers not even finished been promised for too long to remember, now they are talking about another launcher (will they ever finish either who knows)
• A online shop that has a single page of items and the remainder is still "coming Soon" seems to be thier favourite catch phrase along with "When Its Ready"

How about just getting some actual follow through with whatever you decide to plan instead of making all these fantastic sounding plans and commitments but never really fully delivering what you promise. Sure ya got 1.6 packs out pretty much had no choice in the matter as you knew you were losing support from the community. Seem more worried about getting partnered with all the popular places instead of fulfilling what you promised over 12 months ago which is yet just a fart in the wind.

Constructive criticism is one thing, but you are just flat out mean, bring it down a notch, being pushy won't get you any answers.

Moving on... There are still 6 months left for the changes to occur, lets just wait and see and talk about cats. CATS CATS CATS

 

[Greevir]

Constructive criticism is one thing, but you are just flat out mean, bring it down a notch, being pushy won't get you any answers.

Moving on... There are still 6 months left for the changes to occur, lets just wait and see and talk about cats. CATS CATS CATS

I like it when cats get eaten by dogs.

 

[Jadedcat]

I like it when cats get eaten by dogs.

Heeeey ... what kind of dog?

 

[Greevir]

Heeeey ... what kind of dog?

My late miniature dalmation... /sadface

 

[Sertas]

I don't care that FTB is moving towards Curse. FTB is a group that makes modpacks, maps and a launcher that ties everything up in a nice pretty package. They provide tech support and these forums for the community all for free. They even show up at minecon and host an event or two. This takes money and from what I can tell FTB isn't making a ton so the money has to come from somewhere. So bravo to FTB and I hope all the staff members get a cut of that Curse money.

I am concerned with Forge going under the Curse umbrella. Forge, as I understand it, is THE link between MC and Modded MC (yeah there are some mods that don't need or use forge. No need to mention those as they don't mater in my context). I know Lexmanos has promised it will always be open source and free to use. That's great and I think he could keep Curse from acquiring the license for Forge. However, what if he can't? What happens to modding if Curse gets that license or moves to block the file from being hosted outside Curse? See, this isn't just a move that has consequences for FTB. Forge moving under Curse could be bad for ALL modders that use Forge.

Now, some of you crazy kids will say, "but Sertas, Forge is open source and someone could make a fork of forge and keep it going!" or, "Sertas this is temporary because the Modding API is coming from Mojang. They said so!" or, "Come on guy, it's just the ti......wait, sorry wrong scenario." You're right children except, no one has bothered to make a fork, the modding api is vapor ware until we get a beta and that last part sounds creepy or.....well never mind I digress. Curse getting it's mittens of ad revenue, or evil (depending on your preference) is a really bad thing as they could potentially control all MC modding.

You can bet your sweet ass (as sure as I'm fat) that Curse will figure a way for mods to reside behind it's premium service. This is worse than WoW because no one uses 10 or 20 mods with Wow but we routinely use 40+ mods with Mc. Can you imagine how long it would take, using the current curse client. There goes the speedy updates we currently all enjoy. Hello premium launcher!!

Of course FTB isn't the end all be all for the modding scene. We have Tekkit and At Launcher and both have robust infrastructures and a dedicated fanbase. Yet they all have one thing in common:

FORGE!

 

[QueWhat]

Some posts seriously need a TLDR.

If there is one thing we all agree on it's that more FTB maps is definitely a good thing:

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[Gaz_]

I don't care that FTB is moving towards Curse. FTB is a group that makes modpacks, maps and a launcher that ties everything up in a nice pretty package. They provide tech support and these forums for the community all for free. They even show up at minecon and host an event or two. This takes money and from what I can tell FTB isn't making a ton so the money has to come from somewhere. So bravo to FTB and I hope all the staff members get a cut of that Curse money.

I am concerned with Forge going under the Curse umbrella. Forge, as I understand it, is THE link between MC and Modded MC (yeah there are some mods that don't need or use forge. No need to mention those as they don't mater in my context). I know Lexmanos has promised it will always be open source and free to use. That's great and I think he could keep Curse from acquiring the license for Forge. However, what if he can't? What happens to modding if Curse gets that license or moves to block the file from being hosted outside Curse? See, this isn't just a move that has consequences for FTB. Forge moving under Curse could be bad for ALL modders that use Forge.

Now, some of you crazy kids will say, "but Sertas, Forge is open source and someone could make a fork of forge and keep it going!" or, "Sertas this is temporary because the Modding API is coming from Mojang. They said so!" or, "Come on guy, it's just the ti......wait, sorry wrong scenario." You're right children except, no one has bothered to make a fork, the modding api is vapor ware until we get a beta and that last part sounds creepy or.....well never mind I digress. Curse getting it's mittens of ad revenue, or evil (depending on your preference) is a really bad thing as they could potentially control all MC modding.

You can bet your sweet ass (as sure as I'm fat) that Curse will figure a way for mods to reside behind it's premium service. This is worse than WoW because no one uses 10 or 20 mods with Wow but we routinely use 40+ mods with Mc. Can you imagine how long it would take, using the current curse client. There goes the speedy updates we currently all enjoy. Hello premium launcher!!

Of course FTB isn't the end all be all for the modding scene. We have Tekkit and At Launcher and both have robust infrastructures and a dedicated fanbase. Yet they all have one thing in common:

FORGE!

Slow has mentioned in one of his previous posts on this thread and on the live Q&A he did last night that there will not be any download throttling with the launcher that is replacing the current FTB and Curse Client. So hopefully there will still be speedy updates and possibly slightly faster as if all goes to plan most mods will be in one central location.

 

[Sertas]

Some posts seriously need a TLDR.

If there is one thing we all agree on it's that more FTB maps is definitely a good thing:

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TLR is probably the reason most people come away from a post with little understanding of the post. Maybe people should take time to read and comprehend then comment. Nothing against you Que. Just a general observation

TLR RTFS=Read the flipping screen

 

[Sertas]

Slow has mentioned in one of his previous posts on this thread and on the live Q&A he did last night that there will not be any download throttling with the launcher that is replacing the current FTB and Curse Client. So hopefully there will still be speedy updates and possibly slightly faster as if all goes to plan most mods will be in one central location.

I know what he stated but, I don't think Curse is going to let thousands of people download on average 60 mods for free when they have a premium launcher and can make money on those same downloads. Eventually, they will say that bandwidth is too expensive and the ad revenue isn't covering the costs so we have to throttle downloads or you can sign up for CurseFTB Premium. With the additional ability to have less ads. YAY!!!

 

[QueWhat]

TLR is probably the reason most people come away from a post with little understanding of the post. Maybe people should take time to read and comprehend then comment. Nothing against you Que. Just a general observation

TLR RTFS=Read the flipping screen

This is what I think about your general observation:

Spoiler

J/king! I couldn't help myself.

 

[EdgarAllen]

What about cpw and FML?

 

[-Z-]

why are your result different from mine?

just dropping into this to point out that there is no such thing as "standard google search results" anymore. google's been filtering user-by-user even without accounts for a few years now. results are ordered via filtration to put more things the user in question will agree with at the top of the first page or two, and shove the things they'll disagree with based on tracking statistics further and further down, so if you've gotten a bunch of pages and most of what you see at first doesn't seem to carry any of what was suggested it would, it's advisable to check further back.

I've seen dozens of instances where something was hazardous online that had people "confirm it to be safe". when malware comes up there is no such thing as "enough caution".

 

[BIG mac]

Well if the launcher is crap, we can always jump ship and go to one of the other launchers, so I'm not too worried about losing any ability to play mods (even though whenever I try to stick mods together sort of make my own small pack I always end up crashing minecrft and having to delete everything.)

I have to admit though the infected client posts are scaring me, but I have not used curse in the past, so I don't have any knowledge in this area.

One of my main concerns is the forums. The curse operated minecraft forums are absolutely horrible, and I would hate for the ftb forums to be anything like them. I love the ftb community and would hate for it to be hurt by poorly designed forums. If we could keep them using the XenForo software, that would be great.