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[–] 61 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

Going to copy my post over from the original for anyone wondering why because the description does nothing to explain:

I watched a few minutes of it and finally got to it... If I got it right, the guy suing them wanted to make a mod with guns. Mojang said no and got it shut down. He's suing because he believes a company shouldn't have any say over how users might modify their games.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Since they need permission, I can only assume they want to sell their mod on the bedrock marketplace. I thought Microsoft controlled that.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    there's 11 pages of results if you search "gun" through Modrinth, you're absolutely correct

    the marketplace is "curated" mods, if the guy wants to make paid mods that go against the "curation" he's gotta make a patreon or something, and handle his own marketing for it

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Seems a stupid thing to sue about. Microsoft has rules about the content you want to sell through them, the content they're essentially endorsing.

    That sounds reasonable.

    If you want to make something outside their content limits and you expect them to endorse it... Why? That's not how anything works.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Which was what was done with the weather mod. Mojang didn't like it because what people really want for weather mod is hurricanes, mojang don't like anything too destructive like that which you can kind of understand, you can't really do a normal playthrough with it on.

    It makes it a totally different game.

    But I don't think anyone really cared and I don't think it's had a particularly adverse effect on the mod developer, they've got plenty of backers I doubt there's any interest in suing mojang over it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Probably why he wanted to sue in the first place but the actual lawsuit is over deleting minecraft accounts that didn't migrate to Microsoft accounts. That restriction was not present in the original TOS, and seems to be illegal to change without the user accepting a new TOS (that isn't forced under threat of deleting what you own).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    He could install Luanti and mod to his heart's content.

    Like, legality aside, he's fighting to add value to a game whose publisher has tried to prevent him.

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