»Mojang Eula Enforcement

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By aXed on May 1, 2016 at 12:04 AM
  1. aXed

    aXed Honorary Poster Member

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    Dear community,

    Mojang (The creator of Minecraft) has started to enforce the EULA. Many Minecraft Servers including GuildCraft have received emails about this.

    What is the EULA?
    The EULA is a list of rules we automatically accept when starting a server. These rules state that we may not sell items or perks which improves the game-play for the buyer. You can read all about it here: https://account.mojang.com/documents/minecraft_eula

    What does this mean for GuildCraft?
    This morning I heard that we're added to a blacklist for the up-coming 1.9.3 update. The blacklist is only active on that version so do not update to 1.9.3 yet. 1.8.* and 1.9.1/2 are perfectly fine for now.

    We are currently in contact with Mojang in order to get us of that blacklist. That means we will have to change our store to comply with the EULA. We're hoping to receive a new date on which we have to comply so that we can prepare new purchase options. So yes we will comply with the EULA.

    What changes?
    We will no longer sell the current ranks and most perks in the future, there will be a new set of ranks and perks which will be EULA compliant.

    Ranks and perks purchases before this will not be removed. You will keep all current non-eula compliant perks. The old ranks will become so called "Legacy Ranks".

    There will be a 50% sale until we release the new set of ranks and perks.

    FAQ

    Will I lose anything I've bought?
    No, you will keep your rank and perks. The current ranks will simply be no longer available at the store but you will keep it if you already bought it. All the perks will also stay.

    When will the new ranks be released?
    This is currently unknown since we're in contact with Mojang in attempt to get a new date on which we have to be compliant.

    What can we expect?
    The newest ranks will have perks for chat related content, particles, hats, companions, pets and anything possible within the EULA. I do hope they will give us more breathing space since these perks are quite limited. And I'm afraid we will have to start advertising on the website and in-game. Feel free to post your ideas for ranks and perks but do read the EULA first.



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Discussion in 'News & Announcements' started by aXed, May 1, 2016.

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    1. Looting_III

      Looting_III Enthusiast Member

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      Wrong, right now on buy.guildcraft.org there is no sale :p
      Don't know if its intentional or not.
       
    2. KinqCake

      KinqCake Watermelon Member

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      Think forward smartass. Seems like you only think about the hackers, what would happen to the donators or the members who's cracked and they cannot afford themselves an premium account. However even though they can afford premium accounts, some of the biggest players on GC are using taken names and aXed doesn't have time to transfer ranks to new accounts, 1 rank transfer takes atleast 1 hour. Around 3000+ players would quit because of that, losing their friends who cannot join the game because the server is premium. I can already tell you that GC would never change to premium server, it would only destroy the server and aXed will end up closing the server and quit. I know one server who tried to change to premium from cracked and after the change everyone quit, the server just died. The owner realized he made a mistake and changed back to cracked. Right after he changed back to cracked everyone came back. It's also not that easy to change to premium. As Asy said on other threads that relates to this topic this would take a lot of work and update plugins. Don't think aXed will even think about changing to premium when GC is at risk (EULA - Blacklist). Changing GC to premium would be pointless. Not everyone can manage themselves premium accounts, even staff, even you.

      You think changing to premium would make GC "better", well yes without hackers. but when you think about it, it would make GC worse and I wrote the reasons above and you can't disagree or avoid the truth :)
       
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    3. Svint

      Svint Grasshopper Member

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      all ranks and perks... arent out yet, which means that the sale should still be going on, but it isnt
       
    4. Looting_III

      Looting_III Enthusiast Member

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      Sounds like they are demanding the server not be a cracked server to me.

      aXed or his developer can create tools to help automate the process of transferring accounts or at least do it in batches reducing the time required dramatically. Back before the forums reset he even had a post talking about doing just that.
       
    5. TrueAsfblast

      TrueAsfblast Newbie Member

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      Idk about this . Transfering acc needs time and stuff . Automates it will have a issue where the transfer goes to the wrong player result complainments and etc like that
       
    6. TrueAsfblast

      TrueAsfblast Newbie Member

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      The only thing that would happen to gc when its premium is a huge downdraft (unless u have help from famous minecraft youtubers) . If u dont have that then dont even need to think about trying to make it to premium . Just like @KinqCake said , its pointless
       
    7. ninja_the_gamer

      ninja_the_gamer Quick Digit Member

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      My VIP rank will be gone? if its gone oh CRAP!!!! Mojang!!!!
      -ninja_Gamer11
       
    8. uryfgoifh

      uryfgoifh Forum Guru Member

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      dude u have a lot to say about this like your the one who is making the decisions. Just let Axed and the staff take care of this. this post is just letting us know whats hapening and your making lot of posts saying what should happen.
       
    9. RP39

      RP39 Faithful Poster Member

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      Just make a premium account with the name of Fluxy. Your ranks and kits will still be there.
       
    10. Fluxy

      Fluxy Member Member

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      Yes True i can do that but here is where i cri Fluxy is already Taken so i have change my name for my Prem :(
       
    11. TooHigh

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      They WILL take your server out if you don't compliant not now but at some point, they will. But i don't like the EULA even, no one like it so...


      #SAFEMINECRAFTANDGUILDCRAFT
       
    12. Recker

      Recker Nimble Knuckle Member

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      Shut the F up nub kid.What do u mean if "u can buy ranks u can buy prem" ? Mostly all the players here with ranks dont have paypal or credit card.The way they got ranks is by using ign stuffs for irl money.Everyones not rich like u to buy a prem like u.But I wont complain if aXed enables the option of using ign stuffs to buy outside GC stuffs like prem account,coz then others will be able to use it too.
       
    13. DarandGAB

      DarandGAB Newbie Member

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      Then What Name Of The Ranks We Purchased before the EULA?
       
    14. Recker

      Recker Nimble Knuckle Member

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      Okay I will stfu,coz I dont want u to go cry to ur mom & complaint about me boi :)
       
    15. Recker

      Recker Nimble Knuckle Member

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      Did ur mom from the Amazon jungles said it to u? ^_^
       
    16. aXed

      aXed Honorary Poster Member

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      We basically have half of the system, the main issue right now is that we have to create our own ban system that will support our name change plugin. It's gonna take a while but still planning on finishing it.
       
    17. HazWolf

      HazWolf Ancient Poster Member

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      Can u tell when the sale is over?
       
    18. TooHigh

      TooHigh Quick Digit Member

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      EULA is late april fools prank? lmao hope so
       
    19. rikard_renata

      rikard_renata Enthusiast Member

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      This is like driving in circles.

      Since Mojang is "mainly " concerned with players having the same gaming experience as all players on the server I dont see HOW we can keep our ranks (called legacy or whatever) AND benefits from it in the future.
      I mean we can call ourselves whatever we want (legend, god, titan bla bla bla) but final question is what about perks giving adventage. And adventage is all about what rank/perks/boosters are !

      A)
      If the “kits and/or ranks and/or boosters" contain gameplay-affecting features they are not allowed . Gameplay balance is not relevant to the EULA. If the items included in the kit/rank are purely cosmetic, you can charge real money/hard currency.
      But again, If ranks are cosmetic only (particles, hats etc etc) then they are NOT ranks we bought and they are Near-To-Useless.
      B) if we can have them in some "grace period" to addopt and comply eula then again its not what we bought (lifetime). But what we need is straight answer on that.

      Whats coming in future is kind of text like "With it being our latest release, we’ve made some changes for "put some commercial fancy name" which ensure the game is fair and enjoyable for everyone. We’ve decided to permanently remove "insert some feature like /fly" and many of the other perks existing ranked players had on before. Instead, we offer "insert some fancy words like Tons of new stuff/new amazing possibilities etc etc etc making your your game expirience unique and never seen before (add more bla bla thing)"
      The types of perks will be determined by the level of enforcement that Mojang follows through on. Despite already expressed any personal views on the EULA.

      Finally, there's no real good way of making everyone happy, there will probably be a couple people complaining no matter what. What I see here that one era came to the end and we should addapt or quit.
       
    20. Looting_III

      Looting_III Enthusiast Member

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      Mojang does not care about ranks, they care about selling ranks for hard currencies. You can have all your god and titan ranks giving what ever enhancements you want, they just don't want players to be able to buy them with irl money. Selling them for in game money or votes or whatever is still acceptable. They are also not demanding old ranks be removed or revoked so keeping legacy ranks with perks is acceptable they just want servers to not sell them from now on to avoid being on the blacklist.
       
    21. MonsterStorm

      MonsterStorm Old School Guildcrafter Member

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      The EULA is so shit
       
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