"Minecraft Bukkit team lead tries to end development, but Mojang steps in"

[kane_magus]

I don't play much multiplayer Minecraft anymore (or singleplayer either, to be honest), so I'm not really familiar with Bukkit at all, but even so, I found this story to be somewhat interesting. It sounds like the dude who was currently in charge of Bukkit apparently got buttmad over the whole new EULA thing and tried to end the project, but then Mojang was like nope, we're going to continue it ourselves.

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[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I still don't understand why people are so uptight about "the whole new EULA thing" myself. Other than the fact they were COMPLETELY IGNORANT, POSSIBLY WILLFULLY of the EULA to begin with.

They were doing things with it that were completely, 100%, against the EULA. Mojang just wasn't enforcing it. Finally server owners got too greedy with it to the point where Mojang simply couldn't keep turning a blind eye to it. It started the dumb ass drama.

Mojang altered their EULA to officially make it -less- severe than it was, and people went up in arms. They'd rather it stay the way it was, and Mojang continue to ignore people ignoring the EULA in order to shake in some cases 1000's of bucks off of Minecraft players.

Not a single one of them took a step back to see if there were alternate ways to encourage donations without violating the terms of service. The EULA is basically there to prevent player abuse. If Koby and I ever get his server ready for the public (And it's getting closer, although 1.8 will certainly slow it down again ^_^) I'm likely going to email Mojang and ask them directly what they think of how we'll be handling donations (assuming we eventually take them. I'd like to at least raise enough to cover the server costs for koby. ^^)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Regarding Koby's server, I ought to pop in one of these days and see how that's going. I don't think I've launched Minecraft even once since moving back to NC, though.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

By all means, drop by. We may or may not be on the server at the time of course. If you find yourself stuck somewhere, since permissions are starting to be fleshed out, just let me know. I'll either be working on permissions more this weekend or playing around on pseudo to gather quartz. (while doing permissions in the background. ^^)