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Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by rkharsan64 »

Twirrim wrote: post #18
beeflet wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition is Microsoft's freemium children's game where you buy "mods" and "skins" using minecoins and you can visit a number of pre-approved pay-to-win servers or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans. You might be confusing it with a beloved viral indie PC game called Minecraft (2011) which is…

> or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans. Or you can just run your own dedicated bedrock edition server, no need to pay anyone. https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock

There's a big catch here: creating mods for Bedrock is difficult. And, Mojang is taking steps that make it difficult for modders to create stuff for Bedrock. [1]

There's no match for the modding capabilities that Java edition gives you.

[1]: https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/2309...

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by jerbearito »

beeflet wrote: post #7
cortesoft wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. That's how mods work in Minecraft bedrock

Minecraft Bedrock Edition is Microsoft's freemium children's game where you buy "mods" and "skins" using minecoins and you can visit a number of pre-approved pay-to-win servers or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans. You might be confusing it with a beloved viral indie PC game called Minecraft (2011) which is…

Correction: Bedrock is not freemium. There's also nothing wrong with Bedrock. It allows for cross-platform play. The minecoins/purchases are available in the menus, but they're never pushed in-game. The experience is very similar to Java.

Also, Java and Bedrock both have Realms (the managed "server" option you referred to).

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by zamalek »

beeflet wrote: post #7
cortesoft wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You just visit another server and it downloads and sets up all of the server's mods. That's how mods work in Minecraft bedrock

Minecraft Bedrock Edition is Microsoft's freemium children's game where you buy "mods" and "skins" using minecoins and you can visit a number of pre-approved pay-to-win servers or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans. You might be confusing it with a beloved viral indie PC game called Minecraft (2011) which is…

> You might be confusing it

I doubt it. Datapacks did originate in Bedrock, though Minecraft Java does have them now.

Downloading Forge/Fabric mods automatically has never been supported as far as I know - good thing tool, it would be a security nightmare.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by cAtte_ »

> We decided to avoid using “free” or “libre” in the name ... Projects like Blender, Krita, or Godot are awesome, and they don’t need to convince you about their libre nature by putting it in their names.

so... we decided to add the name of the programming language we use instead?

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by xanderlewis »

I find it hard to take seriously much debate on naming things. Whatever name you choose is going to upset some people and please others; in the end, all you need is something fairly unique. You quickly forget any intrinsic meaning and it becomes transparent. ‘YouTube’ is a pretty amateurish sounding name and yet it stuck, and here we are now. When was the last time you even stopped and pondered its etymology?

The name of any successful entity quickly becomes synonymous with that entity. It’s a fallacy to think you can imbue the entity with meaning by picking its name very carefully.

If you think I’m underestimating the importance of a name, just imagine the reaction if you’d suggested naming a computer company ‘Apple’ in the 1970s.

“…as in, the fruit?!”

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by andai »

beachy wrote: post #15

Why would you choose a new name that you don't have the .com for? How about voxelmod.com or something else that is a) relevant and b) the .com domain is available.

luanti.com — only $188.75/mo. for 36 months!

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by andai »

excalibur wrote: post #23

Yeah, this name sucks. It will endlessly be misread as "Luna-ti" and assigned astrological connotations, it sounds like a pharmaceutical, and it tells you nothing about the platform.

Lua does mean Luna, just in a slightly different language.
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