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Mincraft is not open source. There's way too much entitlement in this post. "How dare you make it hard for me to not profit off of your success." It's very cle
by levemi 11y ago
Mincraft is not open source. There's way too much entitlement in this post. "How dare you make it hard for me to not profit off of your success."
It's very clear in the terms of service that you cannot make money from Minecraft mods and that only Mojang is allowed to make money from the game. It has always been this way. It's been in the press many times and anyone wanting to make money from Minecraft should know this. Making money from the success of someone else's project should always involve a bit of research.
The ways that people have made money from Minecraft is by providing hosting and by streaming themselves playing Minecraft and making let's play videos. Another way is to host your Minecraft mod on adfly and make ad money from the downloads page. That's pretty much it.
They should have known this beforehand. I knew it and I don't make mods for Minecraft.
- simonh 11y agoAll they're really doing is providing another hosting solution. It happens to be personal hosting. So sure there are differences between this and a hosting services, but I don't really see a problem.
- levemi 11y agoWhat's in the article sounds like way more than that and it's really the whole tone of the article that bugs me. Yes Mojang doesn't have to let you use its IP to help you market your thing. Yes Mojang can dictate the terms of their product, and no you don't get special treatment because you know people at Microsoft or have a widely read blog. Like really? The article is dripping with petulant self-entitlement. It's disgusting and I say that as someone who usually likes the author.
- Dylan16807 11y agoMinecraft certified hardware sounds like a win-win to me. Making that offer is not petulant self-entitlement. You're being ridiculous.