walker_boh_65 wrote:
Although I still don't quite understand why they are doing this, it certainly doesn't paint them in any good light as far as the public is concerned, which has been the whole bases for most of the things that they have done thus far.
From what I gathered from the video of the stream, it's a straight out troll, and on Lex's side straight out ego along the lines of "if you don't use my API, we will destroy you".
He can't tolerate anyone being able to stand alone in opposition of the system he's working on. The Forge community was predicting the death of BTW ever since I quit, and now that a year has gone by, and I got through the update to 1.3 way faster than most of the major Forge mods (and taking only two days longer than the Forge itself) when that was pretty much their last predicted hope of me not being able to handle it, and it's obvious I'm not going anywhere, they're trying to forcibly push me out of modding.
There's several fallacies in that line of reasoning mind you, first of all in that I don't think they really "get" the concept of me not giving a shit about popularity, which largely makes me immune to such attempts. The Forge community generally seems obsessed with popularity, even to the point that when SlowPoke tried to court me into FTB a few weeks ago, he seemed totally dismayed when I brushed off his arguments of increased downloads and popularity telling him that unless he had arguments about how this benefited *game play* I didn't want to hear them.
Secondly, in directly copying me they are basically saying "we don't have the creativity to come up with the ideas you do, and we really love those ideas", which of course leads to the "cut off your nose to spite your face" scenario which I've described above, where they're trying to push me out while neglecting that if they like my ideas now, they are likely to like those I come up with in the future as well, and that if they were actually successful in driving me out of modding, they'd thus be losing the benefit of any future contributions I would make.
And lastly, as I've mentioned above, and which ironically CheapShot of Technic has posted a statement to the same effect, while the Forge community states they are largely opposed to what Technic is doing, they have basically adopted an ideology that is equivalent to that of Technic's in terms of "the pleasure of the community trumps the rights of the modder, and we will use any means necessary to promote the former to the detriment of the latter". However, they still seem to be in opposition of Technic which really amounts to a huge degree of hypocrisy.
So no, it really doesn't make any sense when you take a close look at it, but from their own statements, I believe the above represents their point of view.
