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ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers "illegal" in Stop Killing Games hearing: "We consider it piracy", we have lawsuits. (www.pcgamer.com)
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People don't even want you to play a video game in private now.

"Gibbons cut in: "They're illegal. They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, for Minecraft, has gotten a lot of criticism because of those community servers not employing the same safety standards that Microsoft does on their Minecraft servers."

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://minecraft.wiki/w/Server.properties

The online-mode key controls whether players without a Minecraft account (i.e. paid for the game) can join. It looks like enforce-secure-profile has something to do with chat messages getting sent to Microsoft. The history section doesn't mention either of these ever getting removed.

online-mode will become important when the devs decide Minecraft has reached end of life and shut down the authentication servers. Players who have a copy of the game client will still be able to play together by connecting to a server with online-mode=false. online-mode=true serves the purpose of limiting players to those who coughed up money for an account, helping to protect the server from ne'er-do-wells.

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