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.”
This is why people that are in no way familiar with how games work should not be allowed to say a single word for and against gaming but idiots are more easily manipulated to say dumb shit like this.
this but replace games with any consumer regulation and gaming with pedophilia/terrorism
I thought Microsoft itself provided the means for the players to host servers.
They do. As the article says, you can download a .jar file from Minecraft’s official website to host your own server
Not only did 5 small monkeys in a trench coat make this ludicrous statement, but the ESA doubled down and embarrassed themselves and Microsoft in the process later on with a written statement that sounds even dumber, and even more like a threat towards anybody running private servers than anything else.
In a statement to PC Gamer, the ESA wrote that, so far as it’s concerned, “Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers. Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them.”
I guess we need to take down Microsoft now. You see, they’re using their site to distribute pirated games, constituting clear copyright infringement. You can get the server .jar from their minecraft.net site.
Microsoft’s consumer products have been compromised flaming dogshit for at least half a decade, the time has been now for a very long time.
I’ve never wanted to self-host a Minecraft server more in my life than I do right now.
Might be better to use a hosting service unless you understand network security to a high degree: you will be exposing your IP if you self-host.
Here’s to Luanti!
Funny how the key distinction is that developer-sanctioned private servers are usually for games monetized through a single, up-front purchase of the client rather than a subscription service with which the private server would compete directly. I’m sure that isn’t relevant to the context this argument was used in at all.
