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More games should be open source like doom. It doesnt effect the art assets which are still copyrighted.

Amusingly, Minecraft is a counter-example. It has very few assets and they are hardly essential to the experience.

There are so many third-party texture packs for Minecraft that losing access to the official ones would hardly even be an obstacle.

The music and sounds play a large part into the experience though, and are much harder to replace than the textures.

The sounds maybe, but the music? If there's one game whose music I always turn off instantly it's Minecraft. Touhou Youyoumu Minecraft ain't.

The music is definitely considered classic, you can find tons of people online talking about how it means a lot to them - and personally, I really loved the music.

I remember the early Minecraft musics from C418 to be relatively unconventional, especially some of the jukebox discs.

I started playing Minecraft again recently and while it sounds like it’s the same artist, and it’s still somewhat contemplative, it’s not dissonant anymore.

It's not the same artist. C418 had a very good deal with Notch's Mojang, letting him keep rights. Microsoft demanded that he sign over the rights to further music as work for hire. He refused, as a result the newer music in Minecraft is made by other composers who signed on to that deal and try to make music fitting with C418's style.

It's even recognized by the Library of Congress!

https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-prese...

It's not hard to get into the library of congress? It's purposely extremely easy. I forgot who it was, but there was one big right-wing talk show host that would end all of his segments by saying it's being added to the Library of Congress as if it's an exclusive accolade, and people rightfully called him out on his shit for how easy it is to do that

The classic Minecraft music was great. Some of the new music Mojang has added in recent years is unlistenable noise. Like "glitchcore" crap. I tried playing with music on recently and after a few hours had to give up.

I like Minecraft’s music. If there was a way to have it not play when the game is paused or on the title screen, I would probably keep it on.

A quick search nets this: https://modrinth.com/mod/pause-music-on-pause

Interesting, I love Minecraft's music. I do listen to it intentionally outside of the game, but it's not quite the same as having it suddenly start up during gameplay. The first I heard of someone "obviously turning off the music" was, I kid you not, yesterday, and now I'm hearing it for a second time today. Would woulda thunk!

There are soundtracks I listen to outside of their games: Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Chrono Trigger, Shadowgate,... but Minecraft would be way near the end of the list. The music is too generic to be worth the attention, yet too present to work as ambiance. It kinda reminds me of Silent Hill's soundtrack.

"Generic"? Ouch, lol.

I turn off the in-game music while playing. I prefer to listen to my own stuff, including video essays etc, but I do still enjoy a lot of the music, and I've listened to it standalone a decent amount. I would tend to the same in most sandbox games, like factorio

That specific coincidence is a great example of the "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon"

Ah, thank you! Never knew what that was called. Guess I could asked Chat Jippity but there's no fun in that.

Cannot disagree more. Probably my favorite video game music of all time.

> If there's one game whose music I always turn off instantly it's Minecraft.

I turn it off but only because I have great difficulty with multiple sound sources at the same time. I will happily listen to C418's output for hours whilst doing something else.

(And also Touhou because who doesn't love an electric trumpet?)

I play Minecraft for the music. And for the feeling of digging myself up from the mines and breaking through to surface to hear the sound of rain.

Free (as in freedom) software can still be sold.

OSS would probably also just mean "read the source e.g. on github", not really specific as to all the four essential freedoms.

This is one area EA has been doing well.

They have been open sourcing some of their older IPs, they recently open sourced their Command & Conquer games for example:

https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-con...

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