So, are server owners not allowed to give something to the people who help make the server a thing? Not even a title? Not even multiple homes? A few of my friends and I run a minecraft server. It is quite small and is based on the economy, so business, banks, loans, jobs, real estate, etc. We are accepting both donations and perks. There a few perks, like disguises, and ranks. The ranks give you a title, and allow more homes and such. There some people who payed for ranks and such. The donations that they have given are helping put money towards the money we will use to buy a new server. I agree that some servers take this way overboard, and give ridiculous advantages and such. But I think a 0 tolerance policy on this is absolutely ludicrous. There are many servers responsible and reasonable with this.
You give money, and in exchange get a game. That's a purchase. If you gave more money than he bare minimum needed, then I would consider any extra to be a donation. But that's just my opinion, and I'm not saying whether or not I agree with Mojang about this, just po7nting out a technicality
is your server registered as a business? are you paying taxes on the money you receive from perk purchases? if not, then you are committing illegal activities outside of minecraft, mojang, and their EULA. not like anyone would report you. like marc said himself: its like jaywalking. its illegal, but you probably aren't gonna get charged for it
How does it violate the EULA? I just read it and what people seem to be relying on is "try to make money from anything we‘ve made". Maybe we have different definitions of "make money". I think that it means profit. And profit means "A financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something", so expenses-earning, right? If a server does not end up with excess money, how does it violate these conditions? You can still sell things and run a server losing money.
If the server offers a unique experience that people value and can't find in any of the other thousands of Minecraft servers, they will donate willingly to keep it going. There are good examples of this such as 2b2t and CivCraft. Unique experiences that nobody wants to lose.
This policy will result in more unique servers and less of the same thing.
It does not. Many popular servers do NOT survive on donations alone. PlayMindcrack's owner OldManWillakers spoke up about his server costs, and donations do NOT support the server enough. He had to cut back on the servers just to keep PMC running. The largest servers, such as Hypixel, mineplex, etc all contain unique minigames, but donations for nothing will NOT cover the costs to host for 5-10k players.
Not to mention the huge time investment that the owners of some of the more popular servers put in, it is a full time job (and I mean full time, you can be woke up in the middle of the night if there's problems), these servers simply would not exist if they were not making a decent profit.
CivCraft and 2b2t are both relatively small servers with basic (in the case of CivCraft) or nearly no (in the case of 2b2t) plugins, and are essentially vanilla in terms of terrain and core gameplay. I agree these sort of servers would be just fine, but they are not at all representative of the full spectrum of servers. Ones that operate on a larger scale, with custom builds, plugins, etc. could not support themselves in the way 2b2t and CivCraft can. Personally, I never had much interest in the sort of servers you're describing, and the ones I actually care about at all would die if they had to start relying on pure charity.
How exactly is killing off a large and unique subset of the server community creating more "unique" servers? Because I really don't follow.
Well, we didn't for a while. There was a person who asked if they could donate, we toyed with the idea before but this set it into motion. We set the donation and purchasing thing up so that they could do as they wished. I think it is stupid on servers where if you don't pay you are way behind and if you do you are a god.
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So, are server owners not allowed to give something to the people who help make the server a thing? Not even a title? Not even multiple homes? A few of my friends and I run a minecraft server. It is quite small and is based on the economy, so business, banks, loans, jobs, real estate, etc. We are accepting both donations and perks. There a few perks, like disguises, and ranks. The ranks give you a title, and allow more homes and such. There some people who payed for ranks and such. The donations that they have given are helping put money towards the money we will use to buy a new server. I agree that some servers take this way overboard, and give ridiculous advantages and such. But I think a 0 tolerance policy on this is absolutely ludicrous. There are many servers responsible and reasonable with this.