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What mojang could easily do instead is just require servers to have a “adult_content:true/false” setting for servers and warn players when they join. And boom, if some parent gets annoyed their child is playing with guns, mojang/Microsoft can easily say “hey, we gave a warning, and the server is set to true for adult content, so you can’t get mad at us.”

Imagine the outrage if they started copyright claiming KZfaq videos with Minecraft guns…

The fact that they rejected furnitures because it limits the creativity of the players and now they're stopping fun minigames with guns is insane.

The "nobody can tell you what you can or cannot do" line is aging poorly every time mojang or microsoft dose something like this

Fun fact the first thing you see when clicking on the multiplayer button on a new instance of minecraft is "Caution: Online play is offered by third-party servers that are not owned, operated, or supervised by Mojang Studios or Microsoft. During online play, you may be exposed to unmoderated chat messages or other types of user-generated content that may not be suitable for everyone."

They banning guns are funny since there is a thing called gun powder 💀

The crate keys being allowed is a major loophole in that your voting key has a

Damn, I sure do love when big companies make extremely vague rules, and change their opinion depending on who in that company you ask.

Overall the biggest problem is that there is no stated set of rules, but only unclear suggestions. This makes some moderators either misinterprate at best, or distort the rules to make some servers fall into the category of "Breaking the EULA" because of their personal biases at worst.

Mojang employee plays Terraria, has a heart attack (there are guns, sharks, and guns that are also sharks in the game) But yeah it's really concerning that Mojang seems to care more about pixelated guns than, you know, literally exploiting children for money from gambling. Every year they just prove themselves to be the enemy of the Minecraft community more and more

Mojang: encouraging people to freely Express themselves. also Mojang: and any server that they deemed inappropriate with little to no consistency.

2:47 I laughed out loud at that. W plug

Remember when Mojang was considered the good guys? Remember when everything wasn’t getting banned or at threat getting banned? I remember

There's a Minecraft splash text that reads, "Also try Terraria!" Terraria has 37 different guns (20 of which are hardmode exclusive) in the vanilla game. Therefore, Mojang is advocating for a game with a similar target audience that includes firearms IN VANILLA GAMEPLAY. Just something to think about.

Maybe mojang should give everyone the freedom to set their own server rules instead of trying to have power over other peoples actions

I like how mojang allowed and sometimes even advertised maps on the marketplace with guns and weapons. 😂

The gun thing is so dumb, fake virtual pixelated guns wont hurt anybody. All of this reminds me of a good quote: "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain

9:40 The ironic thing is, as said in PheonixSC's comment section, crossbows are legally considered firearms in several countries across the globe. The server owners need to get some lawyers from both the EU and the US because this is bad.

2:55 that must have been the best "press subscribe" thing i have seen since 4 years of youtube experience lol

Its funny how according to Microsoft itself the averrage minecraft player is 24 years old and theyre enforcing all kind of child protection

Mojang has been on a steady decline since they were sold to Microsoft. The decline seems to be getting faster with the chat reporting and banning of guns.

This wouldn't be the first time Mojang's been getting away with breaking European laws. I heard that Mojang's own telemetry is non-compliant with GDPR.

I've just about had it with the lack of communication between levels of these companies, and what sucks is all it takes is one person in the middle to not care enough. It pisses me off

We should set up a server union that fights for server rights against mojang

Anyone noticed that lots of Minecraft’s issues could be traced back to the backlash of the EULA?

Mojang banning these servers while still not banning P2W servers: We are doing the correct thing.

I've got a feeling there's something bigger, as the excuse 'it's to protect the children' or something along those lines is never just that, there's always something else going on

They literally shouldn't be able to do this. You paid for the software, you pay for the server. They're degrading the decentralized nature of it all and are essentially slowly taking ownership of these servers.

What sucks is I don’t think mojang is gonna do anything about all this

the potential discrepancy you pointed out at the end between the people writing and enforcing the eula is one of the main problems i had with the chat reporting from the very start, because what would wind up happening is either people getting false banned by a faulty algorithm (because making a perfect system is impossible for a moderation task), or the sheer amount of people that would need to be hired to look over the reports would almost certainly have some personal bias one way or another and make decisions that may not entirely comply with the already-sketchy-and-overreaching guidelines much like what is shown here

First of all, TYVM for covering the issue surrounding our gun servers! I am still in disbelief of how Mojang can classify pixelated guns as adult content. Roblox gun games (Phantom Forces) can get an age 9+ rating just by removing blood. Why isn't Mojang letting us do the same? Since Minecraft is rated 10+ there's be no issues, right?

That would be so damn satifying, if mojang breaks laws and the EU basically goes "If you continue like this we WILL block the game here" I can 100% guarantee those e-mails are comming from "mojang" in the US. Mojang in sweden seem to have compitent people working there

First, we got good ol' chat reporting. Now, we've got gun control. Next, how much you want to bet your skin will have to be approved.

Mojang trying to ban servers with guns in them is literally a 1984 moment.

It's...fair(...?) to allow cheaters to buy their way back in for the same account? That's mental. Imagine if Rust or CoD implemented that.

im suprised they haven't gotten into a enormous lawsuit yet with all of this happening

If they going to do this, they might aswell remove bows, crossbows and any other item that is considered a weapon

They ruined competitive servers. I understand some we're pay to win but they completely removed the possibility of winning money for being on the top of the leaderboard. That just makes less people wanting to play. Also them blocking servers for "p2w" even though its not, just shows that the employees at mojang don't actually play to see if its actually p2w or not

mojang seems to need to learn the phrase, "dont fix whats not broken"

I am most disturbed by the "kid-only content" part. My server has a deep lore that is not just the typical and boring "good guys X bad guys" with a good ending, sunshine and rainbows. It's more like a Game of Thrones story. With history spanning over 1300 years, conflicts, murders, intrigues and more... There is moral dilemma, arguments, shady decisions and even if you have a "good guy", he still might be a murderer. And now I should be scared that based on this, I might be forced to close my server. Just because it's not kid-friendly, because it was never ment to be. There is literally a story in the lore about a mage that forced a baby into a girl's womb by magic. A story with a brutal massacre where a few assassins ambushed a group of soldiers, they literally cut each other into pieces and only one, that betrayed all, was left. All this is not literally present on the server, but it is mentioned and you can find it in the history or talk about it with characters and NPCs. It might seem sick to some people, but it's art and history. Nothing was always nice in our own past... So fuq you, Mojang...

My POV on things like this and the chat report feature: It's all about politics. It's not about good business practices, but control - control of pretty much everything not worth trying to control that will sooner or later come back to haunt them.

Remember when Minecraft used to belong to the community? Man I miss the old Minecraft...

4:03 I'd argue that selling unbans is a good idea on paper, but a bad idea in practice. On paper, like you said - if you cheat, you get banned, then you can pay to get another chance. In practice, though, this gives a monetary incentive to server owners to ban players, then just direct them to the store. Kids that don't really understand the value of money are more likely to take mom's credit card and punch in the funny numbers to get back on their favorite Minecraft server with all their friends. Plus, it means that cheaters with deep pockets can just pay again and again to get unbanned. Server owners can claim they're doing something about cheaters, showing bans, but that doesn't mean anything when the cheaters can just give the server owner some money and be back on the server to cheat some more. As for the practice of Mojang banning Minecraft servers, honestly I think it was a bad idea that should never have been implemented, and should be disabled. It's the same problem with chat reporting and global bans, really, just from the perspective of players. Just like server owners should have the ultimate say in (and ultimate responsibility for) who is and isn't allowed to play on their server, players should have the ultimate say in (and ultimate responsibility for) what servers they connect to. It'd be one thing if this was being done on Realms servers, since those are owned and operated by Mojang and just rented out to players - it makes sense that Mojang should be able to decide who and what is and isn't acceptable. Community servers, though, aren't affiliated with Mojang outside of running their game - usually heavily modified at that. Even Valve (through VAC) only bans cheaters, and they allow server owners to opt-out of that banlist with the understanding that they'll be allowing cheaters onto their server. Yes, there are servers who will try and exploit kids for money since they don't know any better - but at the end of the day, it's not Mojang's responsibility to stop kids from being stupid. That's on the parents. The biggest problem with it though, as you showed in the video, is the complete lack of consistent, defined rules on what is and isn't acceptable, which all but requires Mojang moderators to make on-the-fly decisions on what is and isn't allowed on a case-by-case basis, with no care for precedent. Assuming they're not going to completely stop blocking servers (which they should), at minimum they need to lay out *exactly* what is and isn't acceptable commercial usage of a Minecraft server. Letting their outsourced moderation decide on a case-by-case basis isn't fair to anyone, and giving preferential treatment to the biggest servers (like Hypixel) is morally bankrupt, if not outright criminal in some jurisdictions. Thankfully, the issue of blocked servers is far less severe than the issue of global bans, since bypassing blocked servers just requires a Fabric mod (at least for now). Global bans are another issue entirely - Mojang has weaponized their authentication servers (which is how you're banned even on pre-1.19 versions). When you're banned, Mojang is essentially revoking your receipt to show you paid for Minecraft.

Ahh yes, the game where NO ONE can tell you what you can or cannot do. I understand making the base game itself kid friendly, but Minecraft has a very large adult player base and the no guns rule is basically a middle finger to all of them. Good job Mojang, you pissed off the people who have the wallets.

Glad to know everyone is starting to realize, this was all Mojang, never Microsoft

Its the classic saying "give them an inch, and they will take a mile." If Mojang does this then they could potentially remove things such as PVP

And once again mojang power trips like crazy, further killing off what little goodwill the community still has. If only minecraft had a competitor with more decency...

The issue some communities in other games and minecraft try to use the term "donation" to make the item 'unable to be refunded" it breaks the law in the US at least and other places.

I feel like letting your child (5-9 probably) go gambling in minecraft is a worse influence then letting them play doom instead. Guns in video games usually aren't very harmful to children, and letting them use guns in video games will probably teach them that guns are dangerous (with a bit of guidance)

My worry is that this is going to affect the modding scene, and not just the gun mods. Yes, they could go after Crayfish's, and Timeless and Classics, but when do we stop? Will they go after something like Ice and Fire? Mods that are based off of real IPs made by fans? Things like, (in my experience) New Tardis Mod, and Dalek Mod? And what about tech mods, I mean, some of the stuff that is kinda referenced in mods like Mekanism, or Create is not "safe" for children. When does Mojang finally realize that they, #1, cannot moderate everything, and #2, if they want the game to thrive need to allow freedom of expression and/or creativity within the game. Yes, its their game at the end of the day, but how far do they take this?

“You can’t have guns on a server, but feel free to end your friend with a sword or bow!” - Mojang 2023

7:40 Lootboxes that comply still being gambling isn't quite true and mostly depends on local definitions of the law. In many places the definition of gambling requires a potential reward with value in the real world (so either money or can be sold for money), the presence of gambling mechanics without the chance to win more monetary value then the initial play costs is not gambling.

hey thank you for showing footage of Guncolony, as a staff member for the past 4 years it saddens me that I might be seeing the end of it. We've put so much work into making a product that is free for anyone to play with no PTW features and to know that we could simply removed off MC as a whole for unclear EULA changes has been a shock to our whole community--I end this with thanks as you are putting light on an issue that will affect several servers and the future of Minecraft. (ps hold shift to aim down sights on GC--makes you more accurate and also can't wait to see you in play again in the future)

Mojang really wants to repeat the 1.19 update era again

This isn't the first time that mojang broke eu laws.Snooper settings,and bringing it back in 1.18 but not optional that time around.

I think the main intention of Microsoft is to kill off the Java version by pointing out one or the other reasons while not explicitly terminating java version , until we all be subject to their Minecoin sick Bedrock, because why would we buy marketplace maps or skin , when we can get them for free in Java. I don’t like where this is going.

If mojang decided to decide what my server can and can't do, then they better pay for our hosting.

The strangest thing is Mojang trying to make Minecraft entirely for kids, Minecraft has just as large of a player of adults as kids. It'll be hard and I dont know it'll be done but maybe some kid of age gating for servers can be done? This of couse will be quite bad as adult servers can rise but Mojang should really think of better ways than just banning servers.

Countless servers have had to shut down purely because of the EULA, designed to make servers impossible to make money, just so Mojang can force players to use their realms. Shame on them.

6:52 the determined guy that didn't even saw his inventory while he was determined to open crates

He’s so sneaky with his subscribe plugs.

PSA: the commercial usage guidelines *only apply to monetized servers*, guns are not outright banned for servers or mods

These arbitrary rules our Mojang and Microsoft overlords have and are setting in place are absolutely ruining Minecraft. So many things now I can't do in my own spawn world (that no one will see) that I don't want to play my favorite game anymore! 😭😔

Remember when you could do anything you wanted with Minecraft? I miss those times, and desperately want to go back.

It sounds like someone or somebody in Microsoft is powertripping and attacking servers they personally don't like.

We truly live in the age of open ended rules that enforcers can interpret however they want to punish anyone they want.

Notch selling Minecraft to Microsoft was the biggest tragedy for this game

"Guns and WEAPONS are not allowed" Swords, bows, crossbows. axes: *Hello*

This is so stupid, Mojang why? I hope you can get out of this, hoping for a miracle to happen Edit: I did not watch the video and I panic what happen before watching the content.

I love the features that have been added to Minecraft since the Microsoft purchase but I think the game probably would have been better off if Notch never sold it.

I think videogames rating associations such as PEGI (most of EU and other countries worldwide) and ESRB (United States and other countries) might send alerts to Mojang implying they might change the recommended age which will be leading to parents not buying the game for their childs, making less money for Microsoft.

4:00 I agree that conceptually paying for unbans makes sense, but... The only server I've EVER been banned from intentionally bans over the smallest possible things and sold stupidly expensive unbans. I was banned by a moderator for "rude behaviour" when I was talking to them normally, and they didn't even have a moderator tag! I thought they were just a regular player. Permanently banned because I "had the wrong tone". $50 to be unbanned. I never played that server again, but I'm sure they got rewarded for each ban they issued.

Server: *Has several pay-2-win aspects scamming kids out of hundreds of dollars* Mojang: I sleep Other server: *Has the word gun somewhere in it* Mojang: R E A L S H I T

About the entire gun thing, wouldn't It technically make It fantasy enough If the servers did something like valorant, where even though the guns are realistic, they have fictional names

8:27 felt like he was rapping 🔥

I feel like Mojang/Microsoft needs to do a full rewrite of the EULA in order to make it easier for players and server admins to understand what is and is not allowed, as the current situation just causes more headaches for clientele

in 2040 mojang will ban their game for having "gunpowder"

Mojang can’t stop making L decisions.

I really think this is someone from Microsoft that's pulling one over on us. I think that Mojang already know that the game, in and of itself is child friendly.

The trouble is that server owners, even as a group, couldn't afford to out-lawyer Microsoft into getting a clear determination on these things. So even if Microsoft/Mojang doesn't have a leg to stand on, well, they'll just ban you and there's no way you can afford to take them to court.

mojang is destroying itself 💀

Minecraft was good because the rules were decentralized and it depended on the server you played on.

Feels like a growing trend of companies nowadays cracking down on their customers and their user base and taking away features and aspects that made their games, services, and products popular to begin with. Cannon, Nikon, Microsoft, Amazon, Uber, Adobe, KZfaq (lowering monetization and now swapping to promotions to gain monetization). Soon one day soon everything will be taken away.

Remember when GUNpowder was called sulphur. They should rename it to said sulphur, give it a yellow-ish tint and make it an end or nether ore to make getting it a bit more enjoyable

Mojang really competing for the title of worst game company 2023.

glad to see microsoft has their priorities straight

It's insane the amount of comparisons and analogies that can be drawn with KZfaq itself when it comes to these issues. It's just déjà vu

Honestly, I think that someone powerful at Microsoft is hiring a team of server "finders" that need to find and block a number of Minecraft servers per week/month that supposedly "violate" Minecraft's EULA (probably the same person that forced chat reporting to be added lol). That would explain why some servers get blocked and some don't.

Moderation is a very imperfect art. Mistakes will always be made, and as long as a platform is willing to own up to mistakes I can forgive a lot. But MS has been so incompetent and inconsistent, and with the whole chat ban thing even on single player and private servers, that it’s clear they have a long way to go if they want regain community trust. I’m even fine with them changing to not allowing “real” guns, but they need to offer a clear alternative that FPS servers can go down before they invest in making changes.

Who does Mojang think they are? Seriously, I'm concerned for this games future.

They're not trying to become child friendly, they're trying to become baby friendly. Absolutely rediculous.

_“We want to be child friendly.”_ *Villagers be like:*

Thankyou for continuing to make amazing content.♥

I have never before seen a company that would be so intrusive about server contest people make. Hell, i dont even know a company that would dictate what is or isnt allowed on someone's server by gatekeeping them from being able to connect to. I feel there will be some breaking point at some point and people will be looking for ways to ommit the code server bans or use. Tho idk how the server bans work

Unbans are a dangerous thing to sell bc it could encourage servers to ban players for the slightest rule offense and then have them pay up to continue playing

Paying for unbans is definitely not fair, it basically means rich people get to cheat to their hearts' contempt.

Can you imagine the backlash they would get if they actually blocked Hypixel?

IMO, Microsoft and Mojang should have NO HAND in which servers are banned or not. This is just as bad as chat reporting IMO, just a different audience for the terms.

Aren’t bows, crossbows, bombs, and swords also deadly weapons meant for killing? This is ironic….