Pretty positive video, though he seems to have been under the impression that all games for Luanti are built on Minetest game.
He also strongly agreed with the reasoning behind not picking along lines of 'Libre*, Open*, Cube*, Mine*, Block*, Creation*' and well, he did call it a 'superior name'.
At the time of watching the comments are also largely positive about the rename or project in general (selecting some as I go through them from top to bottom):
"I'm glad we didn't get another foss project named LibreCube or something" (top comment with 241 upvotes).
"Luanti is a solid upgrade for the name." 81 upvotes.
"You know, I've never considered playing Minetest - or rather, Luanti as it is now. Maybe I'll give it a shot now." 81 upvotes too.
" I personally have avoided trying out minetest due to its branding because I thought it was just FOSS Minecraft which was very close-minded of me. " 39 upvotes.
Scrolling down the more middle of the road reception was this:
" Luanti... Lua... as generic as Minetest or Freeminer and others. But I do like the reference to the "luonti" word, creation. All-in-all, it's good. Better than Minetest anyway!" With 43 upvotes.
In that comment thread, somebody else wrote:
"I don't have a problem being generic. The old name was misleading, because people (me included) thought Minetest were just a Minecraft clone and nothing more. But turns out Luanti is similar in scope like Roblox, a game engine to build new games in.
Its no longer a game, its a game engine. And the new name reflects that, at least it distances it itself from being just a Minecraft clone. Its an appropriate upgrade in naming."
Then there's a few more positive ones:
"I love when names have double meanings. As someone who never heard of this game before, I like the new name. "
" So glad they renamed it actually, as minetest made it sound much lesser than MineCraft, and it is really an amazing engine. If you use the specific "MineClone2" mod/game it will make it feel almost identical to MineCraft, full with rails, mine carts, and even fully working red stone, it's really amazing. They even took many of the mobs over too."
"I love it and have been playing it for years. I like the change and thank you for presenting it to your audience."
"At first the name sounded odd, but after I heard how they thought of it I think I like it a lot. It's clever!
I've always been impressed by the game's performance. I only wish there were more graphics related mods making it look better. :)"
"Luanti? Love it. It's awesome that foss software starts to really take on some personality."
Though I've picked out the comments above, the comment thread has pretty positive vibes in general, some comments are not about Luanti, but full of enthusiasm about other free software games, and also some random Finnish people checking in. Also a few people who heard about the project for the first time and said they will check it out.
The worst one I came across 20 hours back was:
"I am just going to say it: It is a bad and super cheesy name. "Hey, wanna play Luanti?" "No, that sounds dumb, and how did you get into my house?". I read it as Lua + Anti. But hey, at least it is a better name than 99.9% of other FOSS project names, whose imagination only stretches to some random combo of "foss, libre" and the verb of what it does. "
Then there's this other middle of the road one:
"MineTest is good enough name for the engine, but MineTest-game is what I might have thought needed a new name. This is to say, I did not expect the opposite way around. "
Still interesting to see outsider's perspectives.
Also this negative one, which isn't about the name, but kinda funny:
"I have always had an unreasonable dislike for Minetest, because my mom once signed me up for a Minecraft summer camp where it wasn't actually Minecraft, it was Minetest. I was pretty displeased. "
It's interesting to see outsiders and newcomers perspectives on both the rename and the project in general, as I imagine that a good deal of the grumbling here is at least partially due to change or a departure from the familiar, though obviously some people might just outright hate it, which is also fine. Ultimately nobody will like every name.
