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I wonder if they'll ever just open source the Java Edition on GitHub. People will buy Minecraft on every platform it is released on, just like Skyrim.
by giancarlostoro 1y ago
I wonder if they'll ever just open source the Java Edition on GitHub. People will buy Minecraft on every platform it is released on, just like Skyrim.
- throwaway48476 1y agoMore games should be open source like doom. It doesnt effect the art assets which are still copyrighted.
- dontlaugh 1y agoAmusingly, Minecraft is a counter-example. It has very few assets and they are hardly essential to the experience.
- duskwuff 1y agoThere are so many third-party texture packs for Minecraft that losing access to the official ones would hardly even be an obstacle.
- xboxnolifes 1y agoThe music and sounds play a large part into the experience though, and are much harder to replace than the textures.
- tmtvl 1y agoThe sounds maybe, but the music? If there's one game whose music I always turn off instantly it's Minecraft. Touhou Youyoumu Minecraft ain't.
- gbear605 1y agoThe music is definitely considered classic, you can find tons of people online talking about how it means a lot to them - and personally, I really loved the music.
- speedgoose 1y agoI remember the early Minecraft musics from C418 to be relatively unconventional, especially some of the jukebox discs. I started playing Minecraft again recently and while it sounds like it’s the same artist, and it’s still somewhat contemplative, it’s not dissonant anymore.
- vintermann 1y agoIt's not the same artist. C418 had a very good deal with Notch's Mojang, letting him keep rights. Microsoft demanded that he sign over the rights to further music as work for hire. He refused, as a result the newer music in Minecraft is made by other composers who signed on to that deal and try to make music fitting with C418's style.
- ollien 1y agoIt's even recognized by the Library of Congress! https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/Minecraft-Volume-Alpha_Grosser.pdf https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-prese...
- HaZeust 1y agoIt's not hard to get into the library of congress? It's purposely extremely easy. I forgot who it was, but there was one big right-wing talk show host that would end all of his segments by saying it's being added to the Library of Congress as if it's an exclusive accolade, and people rightfully called him out on his shit for how easy it is to do that
- mikkupikku 1y agoThe classic Minecraft music was great. Some of the new music Mojang has added in recent years is unlistenable noise. Like "glitchcore" crap. I tried playing with music on recently and after a few hours had to give up.
- xigoi 1y agoI like Minecraft’s music. If there was a way to have it not play when the game is paused or on the title screen, I would probably keep it on.
- ambentzen 1y agoA quick search nets this: https://modrinth.com/mod/pause-music-on-pause https://modrinth.com/mod/pause-music-on-pause
- sodapopcan 1y agoInteresting, I love Minecraft's music. I do listen to it intentionally outside of the game, but it's not quite the same as having it suddenly start up during gameplay. The first I heard of someone "obviously turning off the music" was, I kid you not, yesterday, and now I'm hearing it for a second time today. Would woulda thunk!
- tmtvl 1y agoThere are soundtracks I listen to outside of their games: Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Chrono Trigger, Shadowgate,... but Minecraft would be way near the end of the list. The music is too generic to be worth the attention, yet too present to work as ambiance. It kinda reminds me of Silent Hill's soundtrack.
- sodapopcan 1y ago"Generic"? Ouch, lol.
- voidUpdate 1y agoI turn off the in-game music while playing. I prefer to listen to my own stuff, including video essays etc, but I do still enjoy a lot of the music, and I've listened to it standalone a decent amount. I would tend to the same in most sandbox games, like factorio
- butlike 1y agoThat specific coincidence is a great example of the "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon"
- sodapopcan 1y agoAh, thank you! Never knew what that was called. Guess I could asked Chat Jippity but there's no fun in that.
- MangoToupe 1y agoCannot disagree more. Probably my favorite video game music of all time.
- zimpenfish 1y ago> If there's one game whose music I always turn off instantly it's Minecraft. I turn it off but only because I have great difficulty with multiple sound sources at the same time. I will happily listen to C418's output for hours whilst doing something else. (And also Touhou because who doesn't love an electric trumpet?)
- scotty79 1y agoI play Minecraft for the music. And for the feeling of digging myself up from the mines and breaking through to surface to hear the sound of rain.
- yohbho 1y agoFree (as in freedom) software can still be sold. OSS would probably also just mean "read the source e.g. on github", not really specific as to all the four essential freedoms.
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- swat535 1y agoThis is one area EA has been doing well. They have been open sourcing some of their older IPs, they recently open sourced their Command & Conquer games for example: https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-remastered/news/steam-workshop-support https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con...
- kragen 1y agoIt sounds like you might be looking for Minetest/Luanti.
- ajkjk 1y agono, I think they're looking for the official game to be open sourced... that's much more appealing than a knockoff since it's the version everyone actually plays.
- kragen 1y agoIt's much less appealing because it's much harder to mod.
- willis936 1y agoIt's much more appealing because it has a much more vibrant modding community.
- mikkupikku 1y agoThere's no reason for them not to. Open source launchers using the "honor system" for account verification are already established and normalized. It's trivial to just comment out that verification. The jars and assets are free to download from Microsoft's servers without needing an account. It's a trivial game to get without paying, so I don't see any downside for them to open source the engine.
- szundi 1y ago[dead]
- giancarlostoro 1y agoHonestly, I would almost settle for Microsoft open sourcing the Minecraft Java back-end server at a minimum. This alone is long overdue. The massive fanbase could have started to maintain it in ways Microsoft could only fathom.
- kachapopopow 1y agothe client and server are the jar file, but net.minecraft.client deleted, client has both.
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- NelsonMinar 1y agoBack in 2010 Notch promised > Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. https://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecraft.net/about.jsp https://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecr...
- _vqpz 1y agoNotch has said he would do many things and rarely follows through with them. I'm still waiting for 0x10c.
- ecshafer 1y agoHe sold the game to Microsoft, his promises kind of don't matter anymore.
- _vqpz 1y agoI think you meant to reply to the parent comment, I never mentioned Minecraft
- einsteinx2 1y ago> Once sales start dying Has that part ever happened?
- I_AM_A_SMURF 1y agoTBF sales didn't start dying
- mechazawa 1y agoThe only upside of that game was that I taught myself assembly because of it. Even though it never released
- ntoskrnl_exe 1y agoI'm pretty sure A Minecraft Movie has already made more money that the game had made when he made that promise. Back then he couldn't have foreseen the size of the money printing factory that the game would become.
- OkayPhysicist 1y agoAt this point, they could open source it, and just charge for Minecraft accounts being able to authenticate with their login servers to join authenticated Minecraft servers, and it wouldn't change sales much.
- mort96 1y agoI don't even think open sourcing Minecraft would hurt them financially. People don't buy Minecraft because that's the only way to play the game; it's not, it's easy to find ways to run Minecraft for free. The reason people buy it is to join servers. Most serious servers only allow players with valid paid Minecraft accounts to join, because it allows the server owner to ban people or otherwise keep track of people. I don't see any reason why this would change just because the game client was made open source.
- beeflet 1y agoPeople could set up 3rd party auth systems and eliminate the need for mojang
- myrmidon 1y agoMaybe, but the "paying" is load-bearing, because you need to prevent banned people from just creating new accounts. Sure a different approach might be possible, but would likely also hinder adoption of such a 3rd party account system.
- pie_flavor 1y agoYou can already do that and some do. Mojang, for some incomprehensible reason, even lets you disable auth in the official server's settings (`online-mode=false`).
- OkayPhysicist 1y agoIt's not incomprehensible. It enabled LAN games without outside internet access.
- piperswe 1y agoThat already exists, but people still buy the game