I think you are underestimating how many of us are broke. :/
Besides I think most mod devs have mentioned that they don't really care about the money. As has mojang.
That's one of the reasons that so many have developed mods for them.
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I think you are underestimating how many of us are broke. :/
Besides I think most mod devs have mentioned that they don't really care about the money. As has mojang.
That's one of the reasons that so many have developed mods for them.
I agree 100%. But how that means that FTB and modded MC can live on like now is beyond me.
Like how it has been said before: merchandise. Minecraft is really starting to hits its stride in regards to this, they might not even care about the game itself.
So now you are coming to my point again at last. What happens to FTB? It will have no place in a Microsoft world. And I also agree that modders have not wanted money for their work; that is why I am so concerned about them. That is why I love the Minecraft community. As an old person, I have never seen such a mutually supportive and generous community as this, never expected it from current times, and it's given me real hope for the future of this planet. Only to suddenly see a corporate giant once again about to crush it. No of course they will not crush Minecraft. But they will crush opposition to making money from it. I'm sure free mods and plugins will not be on their 'MUST KEEP' list...
I agree with this plan in part.
The deal is going through. However, FTB and other like communities no doubt should still form a two-part plan:
a) Wait to see if they let you keep modding or not;
b) if they let you, all is fine, do nothing. If they do not, form a development community to make a new game. You would be allowed to use any part of the FTB mod ideas you liked. Mojang does not own Buildcraft, for example. All of the ideas in that mod you would be rightfully allowed to use for a new game. Minecraft, on the other hand, would not, and would be breaching intellectual property rights if it does. Just don't use what Minecraft DOES use. By that I do not mean you can't have mining or farming etc; yes indeed you can. There are thousands of other games that do. Just vary it enough to be not a direct copy. And with all those ideas in FTB, it's already most of the way there.
Here's a "fun" thought. Phone games tones of them. Crappy ones based on your favorite mods. Like the thaumcraft tower defense game. Or the Blood magic card game. :/
Ok now I want to start a new thread based on this notion. Games based on Mods but not based on minceaft ideas.
Can I get a second on that motion.[DOUBLEPOST=1410432526][/DOUBLEPOST]
I wonder about that. The Ideas might be free but the names would be part of the code. And replacing them might be harder than you might think. After all mods have used every synonym for grinder there is. And the same is true for many other components. Where it's simply impossible for there not to be a lot of overlap.
Another thing that concerns me. Even if some of Microsoft's employes don't want to exploit minecraft some of them will. And will try to do just that. And even if they are voted down today tomorrow they might not be. :/
Ok now I want to start a new thread based on this notion. Games based on Mods but not based on minceaft ideas.
Can I get a second on that motion.[DOUBLEPOST=1410432526][/DOUBLEPOST]
I wonder about that. The Ideas might be free but the names would be part of the code. And replacing them might be harder than you might think. After all mods have used every synonym for grinder there is. And the same is true for many other components. Where it's simply impossible for there not to be a lot of overlap.
Another thing that concerns me. Even if some of Microsoft's employes don't want to exploit minecraft some of them will. And will try to do just that. And even if they are voted down today tomorrow they might not be. :/
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doesn't matter; the vanilla hopper appeared after the buildcraft hopper (with some obvious parallels) and no grief came of that besides some grumbling
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You know what, let's stop worrying. Microsoft buys Mojang. So what. WE STILL HAVE 1.8 AND BELOW PEOPLE. WE CAN CONTINUE PLAYING.
i'm pretty with that they can force people to use only newest version of their launcher, which doesn't support older versions.
so if that thing to happen we're kinda screwed.
Perhaps, perhaps not. It is possible (at least for single player) to bypass that check. If you have a forge dev environment for making mods that happens already for example and hacked copies of Minecraft do it too. That wouldn't help for server play but perhaps something can be done about that as well (would have to be done server side in that case of course).
Wether all of that is legal is another question...