Re:Minecraft sales top 100M
by outworlder on Thursday June 02, 2016 @12:51PM
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I am not sure that the analogy works at all.
Any child can download a "Feed the Beast Launcher" or somesuch that's able to install a modpack with a single click. For some packs, that amounts to hundreds of mods. Who cares if that requires hacking bytecode, that's all abstracted away. It's even abstracted away from developers, ever since Forge was released.
We certainly play Feed The Beast modpacks, but we spend most of our time on client-vanilla but modified servers.
Regarding your last statement, it does strike me as a strange thing as well, but also consider what Linux kernel you're running. For non-HN people, the chances are essentially zero that they're running a Linus kernel. I haven't run a Linus kernel in...I can't even remember.
Granted, the analogy has some weaknesses, starting with how one needs to essentially hack mods into Mojang's official releases, a rather different approach than 'modding' the Linux kernel.