Building a Eula friendly network community (future of other game modes)

[ChitterChatter]

Hi all,

I am a bit curious about what your take is on the future of some of our game modes, especially with the Mojang/Microsoft stuff coming up.

Do you think Eula will impact certain game modes and networks as much as is anticipated right now?

I know some servers that changed all their shops/etc, to comply to Eula, but since have changed them back?

What are your thoughts on the future of Skyblock, Factions, and Prison and more?

I personally haven't ever played Factions, but I do enjoy skyblock and prison. And the various forms of skyblock too! those were always fun - is Acid island still a thing? I used to love that and skygrid!

 

[ZoiBox]

What eula changes?

 

[Great_Array]

As a developer, prior server owner and a player I think its awesome! The old EULA basically said "Hey, don't sell diamonds for 5$" or "Don't sell any vanilla items/perks at all", but server owners get around that by just adding a dumb prefix in front of a donators name and still giving them vanilla items/perks with a few added bonuses from free plugins. I personally don't like that because it starts turning a game you already payed 20$ for into a EA micro transaction haven. I understand that server owners can't pay their staff, hoster and developers from their own wallet and they do need help from players, but most of them don't offer donations to the server they just straight up sell stuff like a fucking grocery store, they even have discounts? I don't know about you but when I go to donate food to my favourite cat shelter they never tell me "Hey! Today we have a discount from may 1 to may 7th, so if you donate only 2 bags of cat food you can pet the cats for 2 whole hours!" No that makes no sense, a donation is a sign of good will and appreciation for the server. They even start making their server a hostile place for free to player players because its a living hell to progress in any factions server without cashing out for at least the minimum rank. They even use players that are young and naive that can't afford to buy ranks as living fucking advertisements, they basically force them to put their server's ip, discord invite, website and god knows what fucking else in all their social media for the server to get even more "donations" and living ads all in exchange for a 5$ rank that costs the server owner nothing. I even saw a few servers that gave priority to unbans appeals and hacker reports from players that gave them money then the players who just had a default rank (I get premium players might be more trust worthy but when you get to a point that you give a donator a 15d ban for fly hacks and a default ranked player a permanent ban for the same rule broken you're just being an idiot).

That being said the new EULA will hopefully change quite a bit of that. It basically says that you can not sell anything that players can't reach normally without spending money. So you can't sell your 100$ Overlord rank if there isn't another free way for players to get it thru gameplay. And if you don't comply with this that makes your server practically illegal, and no sane person will spend money on a illegal server that can and will get blocked by the default Minecraft launcher as soon as Mojang finds out about it. Of course some scam artists of server owners will get past this by selling their shiny 50% off Admin Overlord rank for 500$ and adding a way to get the rank for free by just playing on the server for 5 years, being first on some skyblock leaderboard, selling their soul to the devil and giving their first born child to the server owner! It would be nice if people didn't see Minecraft servers as cash wells but just as like a casual chat room in which people just come to chill, hang out and play the game with maybe some twists from plugins/mods. Don't think that players that truly love and enjoy your server and its community won't give you a few bucks to just uphold the server, there are countless software engineers that make free stuff all the time as a hobby and get plenty of donations as a thank you so if your server is fun and well made I'm 100% sure you'll be just fine not selling out.

So all in all as much as the new EULA makes me happy I'm still scared that the cycle of grocery store style rank and perk selling will still continue thru some dumb loophole.