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how do you ban mods to your game when the mod distribution and SDK are entirely 3rd party?

• _aavaa_ 4y ago
  By leveraging their ability to ban people from all servers, see the discussion from a few days ago. A) Ban from all servers (even private): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860168 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860168 B) Forcing people to provide personal information to play the game at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32142847 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32142847 Together create effective permabans for anyone Microsoft wants
  • syeare 4y ago
    Surely, this ban does not apply to servers which do not connect connect to Mojang servers (e.g. online-mode set to false aka "cracked" servers)?
    • _aavaa_ 4y ago
      It applies to all servers, even java ones run by third parties: https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/7317376541197-Minecraft-Java-Edition-Player-Reporting-FAQ https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/7317376541197-M... If you crack the game to not validate through Mojang servers, then it will probably bypass the ban, but I don't know if you'll be able to connect to a 3rd party server which excepts the users to be authenticated