Yogscast is (finally) finished with Tekkit. I heard in one of Slow's streams that the Yogscast were switching over to FTB, the FTB team were making a pack for them, and that they were also porting the Tekkit map to FTB.
Yogscast on FTB
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Wait a minute...they actually finished the damn thing? Finally. I mean, the whole comedy and "do this for fun" thing is fine, but there's a point where it just starts to drag, and that went by months ago.
Also, so long as Sips and Sjin get a hold of it, I won't mind. Lewis, Simon, and Duncan got...well, they got stale, to be blunt.
I actually doubt that now that the new tekkit lite thing has been released that they will switch to FTB as from what I have heard this new pack is legitimate, if this is true, I'd like to take a moment to applaud the tekkit crew for doing something good for once in their lives.
Maybe they've had a change of heart or management? That, or they're afraid of other mod authors going Sengir on them. Though, if that were to happen, I'd think a less...destructive way would be to just have the mod remove itself if its in a Technic/Tekkit folder. Tis what I'd do, if I had patience enough with Java to learn to make mods.
you can certainly argue that Sengir's method worked well though
Yes, you can argue that it worked well; however, punishing users for a disagreement between devs rubs me the wrong way. They may have no knowledge of any sort of fight or whatever, and it's their worlds that are getting destroyed. Self-termination/uninstallation or depricating features into the realm of non-functional like Ravynous suggested strikes me as a fairer approach.
Aye, the exploding bees thing was a bit much. However, that does sound like something that could be added with Extra Bees, lol. Use your excess bees, preferably hell bees, mix em with some TNT, get a bee launcher, and shoot exploding bees at creepers!
so the way that sengir got rid of the tekkit guys was to make bees explode?
covert should have done that with ovens and rails
and I think there should be a yogscast pack, with the mods they want, and problem solved (maybe flame a little bit tekkit that is never updated and ftb is better or something.)
covert should have done that with ovens and rails
and I think there should be a yogscast pack, with the mods they want, and problem solved (maybe flame a little bit tekkit that is never updated and ftb is better or something.)
I am not sure how i fell about this as an small yogscast fan, they will kill tekkit, play the best modpack, learn new stuff, and fill this good place whit mostly immature fans. But dont foget king slowpoke DID invite em and thair fans he must have made a plan... Just an reminder we do have Terms and Rules.
I haven't had time to read all the posts in this topic (so sorry if it's been said before) but my tupence is that while they may have a younger audience, some of the language that is used is not suitable.
I won't let my son watch them, and other youtubers for that reason, which is a shame, because some of their footage is entertaining.
I won't let my son watch them, and other youtubers for that reason, which is a shame, because some of their footage is entertaining.
Yogscast gets a bad rap due to the number of kids and trolls that stalk their videos, but that sort of thing is expected when you have as many subscribers as them. They have a huge amount of pull in all aspects of the community, not just immature kids, so them switching over to FTB is the biggest thing that could happen from a marketing perspective, even bigger than say, a shout out on the MCF. Not only that, imagine if they had someone who was actually good at this help 'em out? I mean, its a tall task, but if DW20 or Mead or any of the others were featured on the yogscast, their subs would double over night.
From an entertainment perceptive, tekkit is one of the best things yogscast ever did, the ever-looming danger of total destructive war while Simon and Lewis continue care free jaffa production is quite the juxtaposition, and switching over to FTB would mean that rythian (the servers resident mage) would finally get his hands on Thaumcraft.
TL;DR Tekkit will never die unless the yogs let it, they control so much of the community, we need their support
From an entertainment perceptive, tekkit is one of the best things yogscast ever did, the ever-looming danger of total destructive war while Simon and Lewis continue care free jaffa production is quite the juxtaposition, and switching over to FTB would mean that rythian (the servers resident mage) would finally get his hands on Thaumcraft.
TL;DR Tekkit will never die unless the yogs let it, they control so much of the community, we need their support
Correction: 'we' don't 'need' jack or squat from 'them'. This 'us vs them' nonsense is doing no one any good whatsoever.
Personally, I think you vastly overrate Yogscast. But even if you don't, it's still largely irrelevant. You are falling into a logical fallacy of Marketing.
A good salesman doesn't try to sell a potential customer anything they think they can get away with. A good salesman listens to the customer, determines their needs, then finds what in his inventory best meets the needs of the customer. If he doesn't have anything in his inventory which meets the customer's needs, the smart salesman will say as much, possibly with a referral to someone who does.
Even assuming Yogscast could tell everyone who ever owned a copy of Minecraft about the wonders of FTB, the simple fact is that FTB doesn't meet the needs of every Minecrafter. In fact, the odds are greater that they will bring a lot of noise this way which will simply give the mods a bigger load to deal with.
You're also making a faulty comparison here. There is no 'product' for sale, no 'competition'. No one is selling anything here OR at Tekkit. It doesn't matter if there is one or a hundred or ten million people using the FTB Launcher, it won't generate any revenue for the team. In fact, if anything, it'll cost the team quite a bit in additional bandwidth they have to obtain to handle the significant increase in downloads.
My advice... take a chill pill and settle down. You're making mountains out of molehills.
I think you may have read to much into my post, the TL;DR was meant to be slightly sarcastic, but now I see that didn't go over well. The only time I mention tekkit negatively or "need" is in the TL;DR
FTB is young, but the community is old, getting its start with the maps and the lets plays. Getting the Yogscast on board (which based on earlier posts is inevitable at this point) is, if nothing else, a huge popularity boost. And while your point about popularity costing the team money may be true in theory, having additional fans will be good in the long run.
FTB is young, but the community is old, getting its start with the maps and the lets plays. Getting the Yogscast on board (which based on earlier posts is inevitable at this point) is, if nothing else, a huge popularity boost. And while your point about popularity costing the team money may be true in theory, having additional fans will be good in the long run.
I am folowing this thread since it was created and i never have posted here before, because i thought this was a irrelevant topic. But i see so many strong opinions and beeing a subscriber of duncan videos i feel obligated to say something about it.
I think Simon and lewis play their role in tekkit very good, but then again its only a role... they don't care how many EU's thei're getting from their MJ production... or all about that technical stuff we see discussed here at FTB forums. Its a show, the tekkit pack is only a vehicle to land the sense of danger and new exitement stuff beeing made in the series.
On the other hand, duncan can apreciate a very good mod pack and beeing much more insightful about it.
And because i've allready said that i don't care what they do next... i guess that responce is allready given.
Its their job to impress their audience.... not the audience job to impress then into playing or doing whatever stuff they feel is better for them.
I think Simon and lewis play their role in tekkit very good, but then again its only a role... they don't care how many EU's thei're getting from their MJ production... or all about that technical stuff we see discussed here at FTB forums. Its a show, the tekkit pack is only a vehicle to land the sense of danger and new exitement stuff beeing made in the series.
On the other hand, duncan can apreciate a very good mod pack and beeing much more insightful about it.
And because i've allready said that i don't care what they do next... i guess that responce is allready given.
Its their job to impress their audience.... not the audience job to impress then into playing or doing whatever stuff they feel is better for them.
I still think you vastly overestimate the pull Yogscast has with the community, and the impact their unofficial sponsorship will have on the FTB team.
I think I understand where you are coming from, the Yogscast may not be able to tell their community to switch to FTB, but they will almost certainly expose a large group of people to FTB, that were previously unaware of it's existance.
I've just finished catching up on this thread from when I last read it a couple of weeks ago, and I just wanted to throw my 2 pennies in - I don't agree with the argument that increased advertising is a good thing, if this was a paid for product then yes publicity is good, but this is a free product, the FTB devs probably aren't too concerned about how many people actually play FTB, heck fewer people means less strain on their servers and bandwidths.
Oh and as for the damage to the community (and this goes against one of my earlier posts - I know), so what? The nice people on here will still be here, and still help people. And those that join purely to cause trouble will be dealt with quickly and efficiently. It's more work for the moderators, but for us average users it's no real skin off our noses. Oh and of course if it does get bad then we are all free to just leave.
It's fun to see such an uproar about the yogscast goign FTB or not.
There are other big Minecraft youtubers that went FTB these last two months, and it's not that much of a talk.
I mean, Coestar, AvidiaZEN, the whole Mindcrack server...
These are people that always to vanilla for a long time, and Coestar even revived his channel with that after a year of absence.
Add to those some others, like the small channel that is owned by the unknown Direwolf20, or some other smaller youtubers that had series with modded minecraft without using a pack.
Of course, the Yogscast has strength behind them, it's even partly thanks to them that tekkit was such a success.
I do enjoy watching their videos once in a while too, even if I did prefer their first series that were more adventuring in a world built by their community.
What I mean by all of this is that FTB doesn't "need" the Yogscast in order to exist, but that wouldn't hurt it either if they came.
As for me, I really could care less, they should not try to play politics with their weight, and just stick with what made them popular in the first place, playing the game as it goes and having fun. Be it with Tekkit, FTB, an obscure and unknown pack, or even just selecting their mods by hand.
There are other big Minecraft youtubers that went FTB these last two months, and it's not that much of a talk.
I mean, Coestar, AvidiaZEN, the whole Mindcrack server...
These are people that always to vanilla for a long time, and Coestar even revived his channel with that after a year of absence.
Add to those some others, like the small channel that is owned by the unknown Direwolf20, or some other smaller youtubers that had series with modded minecraft without using a pack.
Of course, the Yogscast has strength behind them, it's even partly thanks to them that tekkit was such a success.
I do enjoy watching their videos once in a while too, even if I did prefer their first series that were more adventuring in a world built by their community.
What I mean by all of this is that FTB doesn't "need" the Yogscast in order to exist, but that wouldn't hurt it either if they came.
As for me, I really could care less, they should not try to play politics with their weight, and just stick with what made them popular in the first place, playing the game as it goes and having fun. Be it with Tekkit, FTB, an obscure and unknown pack, or even just selecting their mods by hand.
I gotta call BS on that one. They're still supporting the Technic Launcher, not FTB. They're playing Voltz, not Universal Electricity Pack. And I think even the current series of Tekkit isn't fully done... They still have a war to wage
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