Mojang updated EULA

[glw121212]

Hello!

Let’s get one thing clear: we love it when Minecrafters host servers. Tiny or massive, running vanilla Minecraft or a heavily modded version, we think they’re all great. Playing with friends in persistent worlds is awesome. Everyone knows that.

Over the past week there’s been lots of discussion about Minecraft servers and your right to monetise them. Legally, you are not allowed to make money from our products. There has been one exception to this rule so far – Minecraft videos. We’re about to make a second exception – Minecraft servers.
Hosting servers can be expensive. We want to give community members a way to cover their costs. That said, we don’t want our players to be exploited, or to have a frustrating time unless they pay. The following rules, which may be tweaked at a later date, have been created with those points in mind.

You are allowed to charge players to access your server

So long as the fee is the same for all players, you are allowed to charge for access to your server. You are not allowed to split your playerbase into paying, and non-paying users, nor can you restrict gameplay elements to different tiers of player.

Basically, if you’re charging for access to your server, you are selling a “ticket” and there can only be one type of ticket, no matter how much people are willing to spend.

You are allowed to accept donations

You are allowed to accept donation from your players. You can thank them publicly, or in-game, but can’t give them preferential treatment for donating. You are not allowed to restrict gameplay features in an attempt to make money.

You are allowed to provide in-game advertising or sponsorship opportunities

Running servers can be expensive, with that in mind, you are allowed to put adverts in your Minecraft worlds to help with costs. Used within reason, adverts and sponsorship can be good ways to fund a server.
You are allowed to sell in-game items so long as they don’t affect gameplay
We don’t mind you selling items in game, but they must be purely cosmetic. Pets, hats, and particle effects are OK, but swords, invincibility potions, and man-eating pigs are not. We want all players to be presented with the same gameplay features, whether they decide to pay or not.
There is one exception to this rule – capes! We have a lot of fun making cool capes for extra-special members of our community and Minecon attendees. We’d like to keep them as exclusive as possible. So, yeah, no capes please, for free or otherwise.

You cannot charge real-world cash for in-game currency

We don’t mind you making up currencies which players earn through playing but you are not allowed to sell it for real-world cash. Remember – if the stuff you sell affects gameplay, we’re not cool with it.
Don’t pretend to be us, and provide your customers with loads of info!
If you do decide to monetise your server, you must clearly state that the purchase is not associated with Mojang, declare who the money is going to, and provide a purchase history and contact details. You should also check up on the legality of selling digital items in your specific region.
Thanks for reading!

As I hope you’ve noticed, these rules are making attempts to prevent Minecraft servers becoming “pay-to-win.” We hate the idea of server hosts restricting Minecraft’s features to players who have already bought our game! It seems really mean.

We’re hoping that these rules will give hosts opportunity to continue creating awesome Minecraft worlds, and for our players to enjoy them without worrying about cash.

Have a good day!

[iFruitz]

Mostly everything that is pay2win is not allowed.

[unitedmelonpvp]

Huh what ??

[thatfunky]

I thought the old servers where good enough.

[whiteghost99]

Not really an update to the EULA as it's been in there for ages. They've just decided to pretend they're going to enforce it. They will not be changing anything lol.

[RAGingMGAMES]

we need to do something about this

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we need to do something about this

>Points to the petition thread in this same section.

[vfuse13]

They never updated the EULA.. It was always this way.. just that they started enforcing it

[kasperbjerby]

I don't see why people are so angry about this "change" it has always been this way? They are just doing something about the people who are breaking the EULA now because it's been a big problem.. There is alot of servers out there that is pay to win and mojang don't like that? I don't see the problem

[RH473r]

Because Mojang doesn't want other people to be making money from their product. And it just doesn't seem right. Grabbing someone's video and selling it or monetizing it to make money, doesn't that look unjust?

[whiteghost99]

Because Mojang doesn't want other people to be making money from their product. And it just doesn't seem right. Grabbing someone's video and selling it or monetizing it to make money, doesn't that look unjust?

That isn't true at all. If that was the case, then why would they allow Youtubers to make videos?