Just a simple question:
Why did you change the name from Mineclone2 to Voxelibre?
I wanna know because this could make people angry about it, while with no name change, nothing would happen. If you're not forced to keep the new name, you could change it back, or else tell clearly why you can't in the description.
Because the original name was very bad. Every time I hear it, it just sounds like "bad Minecraft copy 2". It's not a great brand to have.
We've discussed this for over a year on Discord which is bridged with Matrix and on our issue tracker. Most of our community were aware of the change, and voted on it. The vast majority are happy with this change. While there may be some that won't be happy with this change, you cannot neccessarily please everyone. Keeping it the same and people would have also been unhappy, so there is no perfect option.
We've classed our game as "inspired by Minecraft" rather than a clone for over a year now, and MineClone2 is misleading and sometimes used as a stick to beat anyone with if they contribute anything that isn't perfectly like Minecraft. It needed to go, and we've polled it, it is changing, and isn't being reverted. I would hope people understand that reasoning and get on board with the change.
Fun fact: I wasn't even involved in this discussion or was even aware that it happened (I’ve stepped down years ago), but I’m OK with the new name.
Fun fact 2: The name “MineClone 2” was only for historical reasons, basically. It was a fork of MineClone, made by davedevils who did very very early (and very basic) work on a simple MC clone. You can still find their commits at the very beginning of the commit history. I admit my initial name choice was not creative at all, but back then when I was still the main developer, I didn’t really care.
Just a simple question: Why did you change the name from Mineclone2 to Voxelibre? I wanna know because this could make people angry about it, while with no name change, nothing would happen. If you're not forced to keep the new name, you could change it back, or else tell clearly why you can't in the description.
Because the original name was very bad. Every time I hear it, it just sounds like "bad Minecraft copy 2". It's not a great brand to have.
We've discussed this for over a year on Discord which is bridged with Matrix and on our issue tracker. Most of our community were aware of the change, and voted on it. The vast majority are happy with this change. While there may be some that won't be happy with this change, you cannot neccessarily please everyone. Keeping it the same and people would have also been unhappy, so there is no perfect option.
We've classed our game as "inspired by Minecraft" rather than a clone for over a year now, and MineClone2 is misleading and sometimes used as a stick to beat anyone with if they contribute anything that isn't perfectly like Minecraft. It needed to go, and we've polled it, it is changing, and isn't being reverted. I would hope people understand that reasoning and get on board with the change.
Fun fact: I wasn't even involved in this discussion or was even aware that it happened (I’ve stepped down years ago), but I’m OK with the new name.
Fun fact 2: The name “MineClone 2” was only for historical reasons, basically. It was a fork of MineClone, made by davedevils who did very very early (and very basic) work on a simple MC clone. You can still find their commits at the very beginning of the commit history. I admit my initial name choice was not creative at all, but back then when I was still the main developer, I didn’t really care.