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The EULA, rules on monetization, and its effect on the Shire
Vetous
Member, Wiki Editor
https://mojang.com/2014/06/lets-talk-server-monetisation/
https://mojang.com/2014/06/lets-talk-server-monetisation-the-follow-up-qa/
I was discussing this with Morris a little bit ago, and it's going to affect all of us. Basically, Mojang has implemented new rules about server monetization. Now technically you don't have to pay to use the Shire, it's a free server. But, the donation system is affected. To quote:
"You are allowed to accept donations from players. You can thank them publicly or in-game, but can’t give preferential treatment for donating. You are not allowed to restrict gameplay features in an attempt to make money."
This has some serious ramifications for the donator classes like Duke, Viceroy, and Archduke. Gameplay features involves everything on the server: mods, vanilla features, and other things like /fly and /gmc. This basically means that we either get rid of the donator advantages like /gmc, or we make it available to all players from the outset. We also can’t divide our player base into paying and non-paying classes, so there isn’t really a work around there.
I’m obviously not in charge of deciding how we go about these changes, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of the Lords and the rest of the Shire. You guys can interpret it any way you want, but the EULA affects all servers regardless of stature or age or type of server. I would recommend everyone going and reading the links at the top there, as it’ll be good to be knowledgeable about it all. Apparently we’ve got until August 1st to comply so I think we need to get on a discussion about this ASAP. Thanks for reading-
-Jake, aka Vet
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