[Minecraft Discussion] Is Mojang's EULA enforcement good enough?

[Ellie Williams]

Is Mojang's enforcement as good as it should be (do people frequently get away with violations- think MCleaks- it's a clear EULA violation, but Mojang won't do anything about it)? Are the consequences for violations effective (I heard it's possible to downgrade your client to bypass a blacklist)? Does the EULA truly affect every server (I heard on the forums that Mojang "bully" smaller servers, but are afraid of the large ones)?

 

[Atifmo]

Emmh i have no idea

 

[agent320]

Simple. They dont go for the large ones because they have most of their playerbase on there.

 

[Power Ranger]

I think its fine the way it is as it only goes after extreme cases of servers selling overpowered kits and such. The EULA enforcement is pretty much just to protect kids from buying in game items for insane price and I think it should stay that way otherwise a lot of good servers would be shut down. As for MCLeaks its not something that really matters to me that much so I don't mind them trying to take it down or not.

 

[WolfShine]

Is Mojang's enforcement as good as it should be (do people frequently get away with violations- think MCleaks- it's a clear EULA violation, but Mojang won't do anything about it)? Are the consequences for violations effective (I heard it's possible to downgrade your client to bypass a blacklist)? Does the EULA truly affect every server (I heard on the forums that Mojang "bully" smaller servers, but are afraid of the large ones)?

Honestly I miss the old pay-to-play XD I am from a poor family and when I finally got the money to buy a rank IT WAS WORTH IT. Now ranks on most servers are not worth it.

Back to the topic, I think that they target the large servers ignoring the small servers. The large servers end up abiding by the rules and then they don't have to target them anymore so they target the small servers.

 

[Power Ranger]

Honestly I miss the old pay-to-play

Really? xD It was so bad on most servers... donators would get sharpness 10 diamond swords/prot 5 dia armor while normal players would be running around with iron armor on a ton of servers :P I absolutely hated it as I never wanted to pay more/almost as much money as I paid to play minecraft to have a chance at winning on a single minecraft server :P The only time I've ever donated to a server was after EULA enforcement happened and that was only because I wanted to support the server since I played :3

 

[Ellie Williams]

I think its fine the way it is as it only goes after extreme cases of servers selling overpowered kits and such. The EULA enforcement is pretty much just to protect kids from buying in game items for insane price and I think it should stay that way otherwise a lot of good servers would be shut down. As for MCLeaks its not something that really matters to me that much so I don't mind them trying to take it down or not.

I heard they enacted the EULA because parents are sueing Mojang because their kids were spending money on pay2win servers.

It's called people being stupid and abusing lawsuits.

 

[agent320]

I heard they enacted the EULA because parents are sueing Mojang because their kids were spending money on pay2win servers.

It's called people being stupid and abusing lawsuits.

Just like Hackers in overwatch trying to sue blizzard for banning them saying "it was just a mouse bot" and the funniest one "Its 2016 blizzard, cheating happens" ...

 

[Ping Ether]

Simple. They dont go for the large ones because they have most of their playerbase on there.

I don't think you realize but Minecraft isn't multiplayer only.
There's loads of people who play singleplayer, and loads who play vanilla SMP.
You're not really considering that a bunch of "small" servers together can have more players than a single big one.

 

[Ellie Williams]

Don't forget about Mcleaks guys.

 

[Atifmo]

Don't forget about Mcleaks guys.

Who that?

 

[Deleted member 169486]

Who that?

It's a website where you can get alternate accounts to use ingame.

 

[Sophie]

If the EULA was actually effective, then there wouldn't be thousands of servers violating it at this very moment. Evidently, the benefits of violating the EULA are great enough that they outweigh the potential negatives of being caught, and let's face it, Mojang aren't going to waste their resources on enforcing this rule on a wide scale anyways. Seems to me like they hyped the hell out of it and enforced it upon a few well-known servers to scare everybody into submission, and then called it a day and went back to not updating their game.

All the EULA actually does is discourage people from creating new servers, which will ultimately hurt the game in the long run. It's disappointing to see how quickly people gave up on fighting it :/

 

[Deleted member 169486]

If the EULA was actually effective, then there wouldn't be thousands of servers violating it at this very moment. Evidently, the benefits of violating the EULA are great enough that they outweigh the potential negatives of being caught, and let's face it, Mojang aren't going to waste their resources on enforcing this rule on a wide scale anyways. Seems to me like they hyped the hell out of it and enforced it upon a few well-known servers to scare everybody into submission, and then called it a day and went back to not updating their game.

All the EULA actually does is discourage people from creating new servers, which will ultimately hurt the game in the long run. It's disappointing to see how quickly people gave up on fighting it :/

#WeFightOn2017. Mojang, were coming. (Slowly chants we fight on 2017 getting quieter every time)

 

[Ellie Williams]

If the EULA was actually effective, then there wouldn't be thousands of servers violating it at this very moment. Evidently, the benefits of violating the EULA are great enough that they outweigh the potential negatives of being caught, and let's face it, Mojang aren't going to waste their resources on enforcing this rule on a wide scale anyways. Seems to me like they hyped the hell out of it and enforced it upon a few well-known servers to scare everybody into submission, and then called it a day and went back to not updating their game.

All the EULA actually does is discourage people from creating new servers, which will ultimately hurt the game in the long run. It's disappointing to see how quickly people gave up on fighting it :/

So yeah, either enforce it, or get rid of it because it is useless if it isn't enforced.