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I don't even think open sourcing Minecraft would hurt them financially. People don't buy Minecraft because that's the only way to play the game; it's not, it's
by mort96 1y ago
I don't even think open sourcing Minecraft would hurt them financially. People don't buy Minecraft because that's the only way to play the game; it's not, it's easy to find ways to run Minecraft for free. The reason people buy it is to join servers.
Most serious servers only allow players with valid paid Minecraft accounts to join, because it allows the server owner to ban people or otherwise keep track of people. I don't see any reason why this would change just because the game client was made open source.
- beeflet 1y agoPeople could set up 3rd party auth systems and eliminate the need for mojang
- myrmidon 1y agoMaybe, but the "paying" is load-bearing, because you need to prevent banned people from just creating new accounts. Sure a different approach might be possible, but would likely also hinder adoption of such a 3rd party account system.
- pie_flavor 1y agoYou can already do that and some do. Mojang, for some incomprehensible reason, even lets you disable auth in the official server's settings (`online-mode=false`).
- OkayPhysicist 1y agoIt's not incomprehensible. It enabled LAN games without outside internet access.
- piperswe 1y agoThat already exists, but people still buy the game