Help shape the future of CurseForge!

Just give up on CurseForge and Twitch - it's clear they have zero consideration for users and are happy to ruin the platform for profit.

MultiMC 4 Life

I will be moving away from using any mods that rely on Curseforge for hosting their mods/modpacks because of this. I understand as a business you need to make money but taking away a feature people are used to without at the very least providing an alternative is just a stupid business decision.

As a linux player this makes me completely unable to use modpacks at all, as multimc and polymc are my only options. Because of this move, it's become impossible for me to play just about any curseforge modpack.

yeah i just reposted this considering it doesnt already exist and therefore the curseforge team is bullshitting. this software wont be touching my pc ever based on the stuff ive read thus far. these devs need professional help lol

ya the app is complete ass and is invasive as fuck

I support the idea of moving to a system like on Nexusmods. If you have a premium subscription, you can download unlimited mods through 3rd party apps like Wabbajack.

To further iterate on my comment below, I urge any creators against this change to seek other platforms, communicate with fellow creators in this endeavor.

Seeing the changes in effect led me to see no benefit from these changes, it's harmful to the community more than anything. This effectively monopolizes CF, as a majority of mod creators already upload primarily to CF. Making these modpacks completely unobtainable on virtually any other launcher without ardous manual work just injures the wider playerbase, and seems birthed only of a desire to bring more and more people exclusively to CF.

Imagine my suprise when I tried to load a modpack built from curseforge mods and got a "can't resolve mod IDs" error. I'm a Linux only user and can't currently use Curseforge, so this effectively blocks me from playing modpacks completely. I have a social group build around minecraft modding, honestly one of my few social interactions. It is one of the only games I can play that I really like, thanks to modpacks. So help us out here, Curseforge. You could have at least added the Linux support before you cut us all off from friends and fun.

The Overflow Launcher is objectively an awful launcher, and it shouldn't be forced upon anyone who wants to play CurseForge mods.

Overflow is a proprietary, ad-infested spyware launcher, and they most likely don't care about mod authors or even normal players.

Let's mention Linux, Linux is an OS used and supported in Minecraft, it's commonly used for servers including modded servers and whatnot, it is a shame that you now need a horrible launcher to play your favorite mods.

We really need linux support if they truly wish to pull the plug on 3rd party support.

I would highly recommend those who disagree to pull their mods to a another source that will work for the community who wish to serve, as myself I do not approve of the decision made by overwolf, but as a buissness I understand.

It's a clear motive in why they are doing what they are doing and do what they believe is correct, without concern for the community.

Modded minecraft will not die because of curseforge, but I feel curseforge might be hurt because of the community and it's support, which I am sure will show in time.

If your a modpack author and wish to provide support for 3rd party, please do what you can to help, so the community who has no support such as linux based systems can enjoy what you have created.

Maybe curseforge might provide an api in the furture that will allow 3rd party access once again, until then do what you have to do to enjoy modded minecraft!

In addition to being terrible and forced, Overwolf doesn't work on Linux. I thought I was incredibly lucky when I found MultiMC that had curseforge integration, so I could actually install the modpacks without having to spend half an hour in a bloody virtual machine just to get the actual modpack because they thought it'd be a great idea just to make the .zip download basically instructions for Overwolf to download it.

This whole website is DESIGNED to be obtuse and a pain in the ass so you download their crappy launcher. There wouldn't even be this many launchers, and this many people NEEDING launchers, if it was a program designed to actually help people play modpacks rather than force people into their walled garden.

Why is it like this? Why are we forced to use Overwolf just to download a .zip of a modpack? It's making me think it harvests data or mines crypto or something - at least with open source projects you know this wouldn't be the case.

I suggest the solution follow Mojang's EULA:

Any Mods you create for the Game from scratch belong to you (including pre-run Mods and in-memory Mods) and you can do whatever you want with them, as long as you don't sell them for money / try to make money from them and so long as you don’t distribute Modded Versions of the Game.

You can't just make modders select an option that is basically an admission they only want to support launchers that will make them money.

I dislike that the overwolf launcher is online only so I cant see my modpacks if my internet goes down.

I tried the overwolf launcher one time. it blew up my computer and completely FROZE IT while it was loading. it did eventually load to which point i couldnt navigate because it slowed everything down. i use GDLauncher due to ease and because its the closest to the twitch launcher when twitch used to do minecraft for EASE. Also, if GDLauncher was "forced" to put ads on their loauncher and didnt show them i wouldnt report them for not showing them either :D. My ultimate hope is that overwolf leaves the API as opensource, no moneygrabbing techniques. and finally as someone pointed out in this thread that each mod author can add links to a donation site like paypal or patreon to earn money. PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS OW PLEASE

If they're going to force a single launcher on users, that launcher should at least be decent. Maybe they should go and try and buy up something decent like GDLauncher

@samuel maldonado

Time to break your argument into many tiny pieces since I prefer breaking things down and shoving them in blissfully ignorant morons. Everything written is a matter of fact.

"Im not gonna lie, i think ya'll are a bunch of babies." Cute but not actually relevant; just because you don't agree doesn't make us babies. Most people want curse to succeed but for developers which clearly you are not is has some very serious short cummings. I don't think your a baby for telling us it is good its your opinion.

"The curseforge client is good enough to launch modpacks and download them with plenty of ease," It is true and can launch modpacks but often requires annoying and often tedious tweaks. Some modpacks due to the way curse functions grabs the wrong version of mods or even completely wrong architypes altogether and example would be a fabric pack grabbing forge mod or vice versa. Launchers like GDLauncher and ATLauncher do not suffer this oversight. Many devs have begged that they properly address this issue but to no avail.

"And ya'll are being super pissy about it when those platforms have NEVER benefitted the creators." Opinion; not fact. I use GDLauncher because it does not ever fail to grab the correct mod for a pack unlike curse which even when set to update a forge mod because modders not forced to make a repo either fabric or forge it gets confused. If you try and download (Pokecube AIO) to this day still randomly fails to get dependancies. It caused the dev to completely change the way he delivers his mod.

"The modding community is dependent on its own community, and funding people to dedicate themselves to making mods or giving them incentive to keep the community alive is what curseforge and overwolf set out to do." Not completely accurate; you see friend a modding community is actually kept alive by a few major points; What can be modded, Performance Impact a Mod Has on a Game; Value or longevity of project; ease of modding tools or language. Modders often do things out of a labor of love. Any modder who is doing something strictly to make money should make it known. Most devs myself included just do things for fun to enrich our experiences. I am not against ads or even ways to incentives creativity I am against being forced. Telling someone something is good because you think it is does not make it good.

"Everyone picks and whines for little things that aren't even explicit, all i see is 'lol overwolf bad' 'omg curseforge launcher sucks' with no reason at all." Overwolf takes up quite a bit of ram compared to other launchers and even makes users jump through unnecessary hoops which to create tedium and annoyance. You also cannot set java parameters on a per pack basis which is honestly bad design especially when developing things. It does not properly set mod updates and you end up breaking projects a lot of the time. I have had many cases where I get a project ready for distribution only to see a familiar error which claims a file mis-match on upload.

"Get your head out of your ass just because there is an ad at the bottom right of your window isn't going to kill you but it will give authors money to feed themselves and keep the mods you love so much alive." No one is against ad revenue helping but for the same reason people use adblock they find it intrusive. Honestly devs should just have a donation button on their pages.

I think that about sums it up but if you don't believe me watch this youtube video that greatly explains the launcher differences. https://youtu.be/tEY5tMqhoOY educate yourself.

Im not gonna lie, i think ya'll are a bunch of babies. The curseforge client is good enough to launch modpacks and download them with plenty of ease, sure it doesnt have the same feature set as say multiMC and such, but most people don't need those features. And ya'll are being super pissy about it when those platforms have NEVER benefitted the creators. The modding community is dependent on its own community, and funding people to dedicate themselves to making mods or giving them incentive to keep the community alive is what curseforge and overwolf set out to do. Everyone picks and whines for little things that aren't even explicit, all i see is 'lol overwolf bad' 'omg curseforge launcher sucks' with no reason at all. Get your head out of your ass just because there is an ad at the bottom right of your window isn't going to kill you but it will give authors money to feed themselves and keep the mods you love so much alive.