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> From my position (I manage a third-party Minecraft website) I completely believe that Mojang are starting to take their EULA seriously in an effort to protect

by wtbob 12y ago

> From my position (I manage a third-party Minecraft website) I completely believe that Mojang are starting to take their EULA seriously in an effort to protect their customers… How in God's name does removing incentives for server owners to provide me with service protect me from anything? I play modded Minecraft; the vanilla game isn't even interesting to me anymore. It takes quite a lot of work to get all those mods to play well together; it takes even more work to get them to play well together with the server-side mods which make playing on a large server fun. Removing the ability for server owners to make money from the game removes those servers from existence, which destroys my ability to have fun with the game I paid for. Once I stop playing, I stop suggesting Minecraft to other people, and they stop buying it, and Mojang stops making money. How is this good for anyone?

citricsquid 12y ago
> How is this good for anyone? A significant number of Minecraft players do not understand that servers are not ran by Mojang, they don't understand that the servers they're playing on are ran by independent third parties (often individuals with no business registration) so when they're asked to spend $10, $20, $100 by a server they believe they're spending money on the game itself (much like buying something on the xbox market place), they believe they're paying to play Minecraft and that because Minecraft is a big popular game that they have all of the consumer protections that come with purchasing from a legitimate company... They don't have any consumer protections though, they're 10 year old kids paying other kids $10 for a chest of diamonds and when that 10 year old gets banned it's Mojang who deal with the fallout. As I said I don't know if it's the right decision but I do believe that this is a move to protect their customers and that it isn't a conspiracy to sell more Realms. My experience managing a third-party website backs this up because I deal with tickets from parents regarding server purchases, just as Mojang have said they do.

by wtbob 12y ago

citricsquid 12y ago

> How is this good for anyone? A significant number of Minecraft players do not understand that servers are not ran by Mojang, they don't understand that the servers they're playing on are ran by independent third parties (often individuals with no business registration) so when they're asked to spend $10, $20, $100 by a server they believe they're spending money on the game itself (much like buying something on the xbox market place), they believe they're paying to play Minecraft and that because Minecraft is a big popular game that they have all of the consumer protections that come with purchasing from a legitimate company... They don't have any consumer protections though, they're 10 year old kids paying other kids $10 for a chest of diamonds and when that 10 year old gets banned it's Mojang who deal with the fallout. As I said I don't know if it's the right decision but I do believe that this is a move to protect their customers and that it isn't a conspiracy to sell more Realms. My experience managing a third-party website backs this up because I deal with tickets from parents regarding server purchases, just as Mojang have said they do.