Voltz showcased an unheard of team and their creations, giving them a huge bank of eager consumers within a week of it’s launch. Tekkit gave server operators a chance to actually run and play a heavily modded Minecraft server by easily having a standard client to point users to, introduced modded Minecraft to hundreds of thousands of players, and gave thousands of (mostly hopeful) YouTube stars a block of content to play with.
The Technic Launcher finally hit home the idea that people don’t want to hand-modify. The Technic website and Forums gave a place for people to discuss things in a respectable way with hard-hitting moderators and at least the illusion of quality control. Technic coalesced into a team of people and began to pump out community-altering projects.
