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Re:Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and game by coredog64 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @11:51AM (#12671711)
MC's mod ecosystem is also an Achilles heel. The primary audience is tweens/teens and the typical mod author is someone who cranks out something in their spare time and doesn't think about install hygiene. This leads to mods being hosted on the shadiest of shady sites. Downloads can be infected with malware and the users don't really know why they shouldn't just run "InstallMyInfectedMod.exe".

Then there's the mods that break between versions. You can have mod A, B, and C on 1.8.1, but only A and B on 1.8.2 and only B and C on 1.8.3.

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Re:Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and game by qwertyuiop924 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @12:01PM (#12671755)
Mods to break between versions, which is annoying.

However, the sites are usually MCForum or Curse, neither of which are especially shady, and I've never seen a mod packaged as an exe by its creator. You're probably looking at the cites that host a collection of mods from other sources, which are about as shady as their software equivalents: sites like cnet, etc.

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Re:Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and game by DanBC on Sunday October 09, 2016 @01:27PM (#12672195)
...or the launchers that ask you to give them your Minecraft account name and password.
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Re:Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and game by qwertyuiop924 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @02:07PM (#12672428)
You don't have to use any of them, you do know that, right? Those are just a convenience thing.
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Re:Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and game by DanBC on Monday October 10, 2016 @04:23AM (#12675798)
Sure. It's an example of terrible practice though.
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Re:Minetest – A free, open-source voxel game engine and game by qwertyuiop924 on Monday October 10, 2016 @06:01AM (#12676133)
The launchers can't do anything about it though. The need your credentials to download minecraft.jar
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