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blockland rebuilt
Tyler66:
I don't suspect or accuse Kenko and his team of doing anything nefarious, but given that something as simple as a version launcher isn't open source, and that Rebuilt's source isn't public either is rather off-putting.
Given the history of this forum and its members, I don't think caution or even suspicion is an unreasonable reaction to any of this.
Smashed_Eggs:
--- Quote from: plexy on July 22, 2023, 01:43:20 AM ---what if we all just played regular blockland instead and then we might actually have a sizeable playerbase
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that's a great idea, i sure hope nobody tries to prevent that from happening by creating another version of the game that splinters the community, that'd suck
Tyler66:
--- Quote from: Smashed_Eggs on July 22, 2023, 04:46:14 AM ---that's a great idea, i sure hope nobody tries to prevent that from happening by creating another version of the game that splinters the community, that'd suck
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Good lord if I had a nickel for every time someone has echoed this.
Yeah, let's not splinter a community of around 60 people at most during peak hours for a game that is no longer maintained by its developer. You can argue that 60 people can fill roughly 2 servers, but that's still not a player count you can recover from. I don't care if half of them are playing Medieval RP or Grappleknife, it's just not going to happen.
The game is long past the point of no return and making everyone congregate to same version isn't somehow going to revitalize its community. Most people who were once into the game are either playing Brickadia or have moved on entirely, so you may as well come to terms with that and play whatever version you want.
Masterlegodude:
--- Quote from: plexy on July 22, 2023, 01:43:20 AM ---what if we all just played regular blockland instead and then we might actually have a sizeable playerbase
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--- Quote from: Smashed_Eggs on July 22, 2023, 04:46:14 AM ---that's a great idea, i sure hope nobody tries to prevent that from happening by creating another version of the game that splinters the community, that'd suck
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Anyone that's splintered off from the main game aren't playing v21 anyway
Alternate versions of Blockland are not the reason the actual game is dead
If these alternate versions didn't exist, they wouldn't be playing Blockland in any capacity whatsoever
Can people please understand this simple concept already
Crook:
Yeah if you look at the steam charts you can see that BL-R actually increased activity on V21. It makes intuitive sense that enormous contributions like this could only benefit the community - the "splintered playerbase" concern is not a real issue. Anyone who is still playing Blockland exist within dedicated groups, and anyone who can figure out how to register to B4V21 is probably smart enough to move between instances when they want to play either game.
Also, it would be deranged to put this amount of effort into reverse-engineering with the ulterior motive of hacking people's computers, but stay on your toes...