The problem with this whole EULA debacle was not what it attempted to clear up, it's how the community took it. Instead of understanding what Mojang wished server owners to do, the community blew it out of proportion. Many stated that Mojang was "killing Minecraft" and various name-calling at the developers.
With Mojang's official statement four days ago, and an additional Q&A article on their site posted today, many assumed the issue had been wrapped up. You may be familiar with Mineplex, one of the largest Minecraft server networks. Today the Managing Director of Mineplex, known online as Sterling, has spoken out against Mojang's stance on how the EULA states servers make money.
Speaking in an open letter to Mojang (and Notch in particular), he respectfully disagreed with how Mojang decided the ways servers could make money. He argued that before the EULA discussion sprang up, Mojang not only allowed but endorsed larger servers (and their method of making income). He included a button on his site that allows the reader to tweet using the #SaveMojang, which can be seen below:
The points he made in his statement are very inciteful, as until now there hasn't been any other major server owners coming forward with professional statements. This was the statement that was most interesting:
Hopefully this will warrant some kind of response from Mojang. There is still room for improvement in Mojang's EULA.
Source: Sterling Plays
With Mojang's official statement four days ago, and an additional Q&A article on their site posted today, many assumed the issue had been wrapped up. You may be familiar with Mineplex, one of the largest Minecraft server networks. Today the Managing Director of Mineplex, known online as Sterling, has spoken out against Mojang's stance on how the EULA states servers make money.
Speaking in an open letter to Mojang (and Notch in particular), he respectfully disagreed with how Mojang decided the ways servers could make money. He argued that before the EULA discussion sprang up, Mojang not only allowed but endorsed larger servers (and their method of making income). He included a button on his site that allows the reader to tweet using the #SaveMojang, which can be seen below:
The points he made in his statement are very inciteful, as until now there hasn't been any other major server owners coming forward with professional statements. This was the statement that was most interesting:
Looking at the revenue models Mojang has proposed, there are both economic and experiential issues with all of them. We will either not be able to sustain our revenue to be able to keep up with our costs, or we will need to become so focused on developing cosmetic revenue-driving items that we will ruin the experience for our players. We serve millions of players a month, and with that comes substantial costs: servers, ddos mitigation, chat filters, website costs – most of which are on annualized contracts that we locked into. [...] I have asked people to leave their jobs to come work for Mineplex full-time, as I know is the case at the majority of the other large server networks. I can not, or rather will not, fire those people to try conform to rules that I truly believe will do nothing but harm us, Mojang, and the Minecraft community as a whole.
Hopefully this will warrant some kind of response from Mojang. There is still room for improvement in Mojang's EULA.
Source: Sterling Plays