"Literally worse than EA"

[kane_magus]

Ha.

Talk to me in twenty years when Mojang has bought up half of the industry and subsequently shut it down while churning out one-tenth-assed versions of previously awesome games made by those companies before Mojang bought them, and then we'll talk about Mojang being worse than EA.

(EDIT) Oh man, how things have changed for the worse since I originally wrote this post. (/EDIT)

Anyway, it looks like Notch is kind of pissed about this whole thing and the reaction to it.

So here's an honest question: Does EA allow people to monetize their shit in this manner? I honestly don't know, but something tells me that EA would probably be a whole lot less nice about it than Mojang has been so far if it was going on and they found out about it.

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

For people to say they're worse than EA is kinda funny.

But anyway, no EA wouldn't allow others to monetize their games. This is one of the reasons why their online offerings are "our server or no server" kinda deal. The same is true with the vast majority of the gaming industry these days. They'd shut down any third party server if they found one, and since such a thing would require their code to be hacked to connect to it, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to go after all the players that connected to such a server.

Still, Mojang has itself to blame for this kind of reaction at this point. They knew it was going on, even without staying in touch with the fanbase, they'd know about servers doing this stuff the second they got the first angry parent email that Notch mentions having gotten plenty of times.

They didn't crack down on it, and as a result it became pretty common place for public servers. Virtually every public server I've checked out (Except for 1.) seems to have a full blown "pay for perk" setup in the form of donations. That one exception server has taken donations, but it was for the proper things. Hosting fees and equipment upgrades. To my knowledge there was no perks given to the donators.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I would say better late than never, myself. As for any ulterior motives on the part of Mojang for cracking down on this now as opposed earlier, even if those do exist (and they probably do, as per your mention of the whole Minecraft Realms thing in the previous post), the end result as of now is still the doing away with pay-to-win servers, which is a good thing in my book. If and when the ulterior motives kick in, though, that'll be dealt with at the time it happens. I don't intend to ever play on a Minecraft Realms server, but if they start fucking things up with bullshit, I'll still complain about it. But as for now, assuming I still cared to play on a public server at all, which I definitely don't, it would be on one where there is a level playing field for all players, rather than one where a bunch of assholes can just plunk down X amount of money for a bunch of diamond tools and armor or whatever with no actual effort on their part. But then, that would be true of any game for me, not just Minecraft.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

From my previous comment: "If and when the ulterior motives kick in, though, that'll be dealt with at the time it happens."

Ha ha ha ha... well, shit. (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/724928.html)