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EULA Blog Part 2 The Rant!
This is a one sideded blog, please do not yell at me in the comments for not looking at the other side of the argument.
Well Mojang, you made a huge mistake in my opinion, you have just put a lot of large servers between a rock and a hard place. Just to say, I support EULA and think it is a great system, but on the other hand I think it has a couple of major flaws which could really kill off a lot of large servers and small servers, but also reducing the amount of servers. I will be sharing why I think EULA should be changed in some manner.
My first point is that Minecraft has evolved into a game where there is money involved. I've had my fair share of being staff on a server, but I will be talking about the one I got the most experience from, Mineplex. Why do I bring up Mineplex, well I will be using it in my argument that there is money in this part of the industry.
I know for a fact that all the owners, Spu, Chiss, Defek and Sterling, not including CaptainSparkelz quit their jobs for Mineplex, along with a few a couple of admins. They make a lot of money, Mineplex is literally their job, they sit on TS3 and Skype deciding where to take the server for the future. Mineplex's donation system has two plans, Ultra which unlocks every kit and lets you be able to apply for mod. With EULA Ultra will become useless. Secondly, they have Hero, which is twice the price but it comes with mainly cosmetics and all the Ultra benefits. Ultra will become useless, players may demand for refunds, less players will donate. EULA wont bring order, it will bring chaos. Argue all you want, but it will bring Chaos to many servers!
My second point is that a lot of small servers will die because of this. I know people are greedy, but people are really in it for the community. I have two servers I have moderated, both my friends, both with different intentions. I may be contradicting my points which is something that should not be done in a blog, but I need to compare to show you have small servers will die.
I've moderated small servers, mainly my friends server, one of them I play World of Warcraft with, the other I play Minecraft with, both at one stage open a server that was successful for a small server. My friend Krayno opened a server called MCDeterminated, why did he? To make enough money for a Gaming PC, he got $250 in one week from selling Moderator ranks and extremely OP kits. I frowned upon him doing it and left, he did make enough money on his 20 slot server and then shut it down and bought the computer, if he was still running EULA would take him down, which is good?
Now, my other friend Extratea, opened a server called Netrocraft, three times, it would keep shutting down because he ran out of money every time, one time on Netrocraft 2.0 he put some of his savings in the server to keep it running, he is a really nice guy who would always care for the community. He would barely get by, he was selling ranks that had game changing effects, but people would not just go up to him and say, this new server is cool, here is $10. He had to shut down because not enough people were donating and he did not have the money to fund the server, with EULA he would have made no money whatsoever. Lots of people wanting to make it big will not, since making cosmetics for some servers is not easy. If you also think about it, hosts will become more rare as less people use them and more people will use realms since they know it is there even if other hosts are cheaper, there is a chance that realms will never go 'tits up'. From this, we can take Ambitions will be lowered for wanting to make it somewhere.
There are also many other small reasons, like less creativity among mini-games servers, and even the end of the factions era, but I wanted to cover these two points. Hopefully I have made an impact of how you see EULA, it may be morally right, I would love to see your opinion in the comments, it may change the way I see EULA. Thank you, Diamond, Favorite and Subscribe if you liked this blog and I will see you another time. :)
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What I find funny is when the EULA enforcement even came up (just around the time Realms launched worldwide). With this in mind, when did the emails from parents even start coming in about the server owners charging an outrageous sum of money for perks, or is it an excuse to funnel the money to mojang's new cash cow[Realms]?
Either way you look at it (Realms or their way taking care of "bad egg" servers), Mojang is making a bad move on their part, I will give you the reason for both:
A) Realms: The alternate service that Mojang provides does not have the capability to be a full-fledged server for two reasons: lack of the ability to mod it to your whim and a player cap (number of players that you can have on at any given time) that cannot be altered.
B) Banning of the pay to win buisiness model: while this move may get rid of all "bad egg" servers, it will also harm servers that have thrived on this buisiness model for months or years. In other words, good servers will also be harmed as well, not just bad ones.
Finally, I do not know what Mojang has in store with this new EULA amendment that he is planning, but I do know that it will not be good for us as a community if he and Mojang decides to go through with this.
*sighs* and I was really looking forward to 1.8 (and the ocean temple blocks feature) too...