Comments by "Lautaro Quiroga" (@LautaroQ2812) on "This FOSS Game Takes On A New Superior Name!" video.

  1. I understand the sentiment in the first part of the video and agree somewhat but I feel it leaves out the nuance of the inherent problem of this game or these projects. Minecraft is a generic name, clearly on purpose. It's an 8 bit block looking world game, you have mines, you craft. Mix them. The end. I don't wanna sound too South American but... Minecraft is the videogame equivalent to "basketball" or "football" XD imo. Like it doesn't have identity either. What happened was it became the most popular game ever (more or less than Tetris, I can't remember). So for the FOSS one, they are tackling not just a genre but basically an IP. And there is no way around that. Like for example if you wanted to do a school of magic... wow "a wizardy school". Where did we hear that one before? Well no, HOLD ON. This isn't Harry Potter... this is a bit more traditional, classical fantasy stuff. Dragons and... no, hold on, it's NOT LORD OF THE RINGS. Ok what if we make it in the future instead? I SWEAR IT'S NOT STAR WARS MAN, SHUT UP. Of course I'm joking and there are ways you can take certain things from these and not make it the same, but at some point or another, there are going to be overlaps just because of how massive and encompassing these IPs already are. Same for Minecraft which for this case, is basically "the only game" in that genre (it's not, but when you consider the nuance of popularity... it's basically the only one). And if it sounds like a duck, walk like a duck and looks like a duck... it's a duck. The rebrand is pretty good itself, but to be honest it's just a made up name. It could be anything else and it could be just as good, just for the fact that it goes away from the "block", "mine" and "craft" part - which in turn also makes any other made up name generic. It is a short name, if it picks up people will remember (maybe) but is not catchy to the point where "it makes sense". At the same time, to give credit to them, there is a trillion dollar cunt company that is just called "Fruit". Picking a name is pretty damn hard. [edit: had just woken up and the above and below paragraphs kinda contradict each other and thought it was funny so I leave it this way instead of making it better] For how hard this would be, Luanti is pretty fucking good imo but like I said, unless you read the explanation, it does sound like a made up word. It also could've been any fancy word as the name of one of the precious metals or minerals in the game or in the (real) world. Because why not. "Lazuli" is as short and samey as "Luanti", to an extent. With the explanation, I prefer Luanti of course. And looking at the thing today, as a "platform" not just a game... it went from "we're testing minecraft" to "we're becoming roblox"? Again, not bashing the contributors for this one but it proves my previous point. It's now a platform, it has a ton of things being worked on and games being made on it, etc... that's Roblox (as far as I know).
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