New Minecraft EULA and Famcraft

[mattwade]

It appears that the new EULA will affect Famcraft and the donation system quite severely. Thoughts?

https://mojang.com/2014/06/lets-talk-server-monetisation-the-follow-up-qa/

[PPawn1]

Wow, didn't see that coming. But is it really going to affect us, we are not really selling the donation perks. They are "rewards".

[Domsters931]

Wow. That's all I can say

[Domsters931]

I have a lot of questions about this

[HaydenTheBuilder]

you should check this out first:
https://mojang.com/2014/06/lets-talk-server-monetisation/

[PPawn1]

I don't think they know what they have done to the 95% of servers in violation of the EULA.

[Domsters931]

I'm still kinda un sure of why they did this. For famcraft things were going so well

[PPawn1]

Yep ;-;

[vespamartio]

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[Domsters931]

uhh. Lemmys response is like...

[1869_Flame]

reading through these topics is erm.. weird.
Technically speaking, there is no money been made as on famcraft its all donations. players are never ever charged for anything.

Though reading through the Q&A stuff like the donor shop would not be allowed? Even though its all about freely given donations to the owner to keep the server online.

I guess Micah/BK/other admins  are looking into this as we speak. Lets wait for a response from them and see if and how it might effect famcraft (might not affect famcraft at all, i really dont know)

[Lord_Puggy]

but we donate threw the forum, not in-game so i dont think this will affect us and To be honest how will they know that we are not giving donor items away it is not like mojang is gonna join every server and look on every minecraft server website to see if there is donations. i think we are safe

~Puggy

[Thoatt]

An official Famcraft statement will be made as soon as we can get all together and talk about the matter. We've talked a lot about this between some of us, but we all need to get together and iron out a few things.

We'll still be here no matter what. We love you guys, and thank you so much for everyone's continued support.

[1869_Flame]

An official Famcraft statement will be made as soon as we can get all together and talk about the matter. We've talked a lot about this between some of us, but we all need to get together and iron out a few things.

We'll still be here no matter what. We love you guys, and thank you so much for everyone's continued support.

 To be honest, as long as i play online games, i dont know better than some servers of games asking donations for covering expenses and giving rewards for it. Personally i find it very odd mojang can even cover such a thing in its eula at all, and doubt how lawfull it can be. After all, you dont have to play on servers if they would host them.
Saying that last, i think this eula has to do with the recent release of the minecraft realms, where they are offering server hosting them self... For a monthly fee of course...

[mattwade]

Yes, I think that it is very odd that Mojang would do this too. It will certainly give people a bad taste for them.

In regards to how it would affect Famcraft, based on what they've said it would make it so you could not get (non-cosmetic) perks for donating. Basically all the donor perks could not happen.