What's wrong with paid mods?

prophesi 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not OP, but for me I'm wary whenever I see in-game currency (Minecoins). Thankfully there are no gambling mechanics tied in to Minecoins directly, but the server ecosystem is still rampant with gambling just the same[0].

[0] https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600...

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recursive 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree regarding in-game currency. I find it distasteful. But in my mind, paid mods are a different thing that can exist independently. I don't find those distasteful. I find their existence slightly positive.

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squeek502 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Any Mods you create for Minecraft: Java Edition from scratch belong to you (including pre-run Mods and in-memory Mods) and you can do whatever you want with them, as long as you don't sell them for money / try to make money from them

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/eula

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foobazgt 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Is that legally enforceable? If a mod doesn't contain code / assets from the game itself, what legal rights does Microsoft have over the distribution of that mod?

	▲	immibis an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's copyright infringement by being a derivative work. Maybe. I don't think it's ever been tried in court. They can still blacklist you.

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kulahan 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If it's made by randoms, then Microsoft is barely better than a rent-seeking middleman. If it's made by Microsoft, they should just put it in the f-ing game or move on to making something new to get more money.

	▲	recursive 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Neither of those really sound like a problem with Minecraft for my purposes.

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PunchyHamster 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> with I Can't Believe It's Not Gambling mechanics targeting children

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thrance 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It feels like monetizing something that used to be free and built by passionate tinkerers for its own sake. It's destroying yet another part of that hacker culture some people so very often reminisce about on this site.

Me personally, I absolutely hate it. I got into programming to mod my favorite games of the time, Minecraft among them. My first exposure to actual code was through reading open source mods and trying to modify them to achieve my own ideas.

	▲	recursive 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As far as I know, you can still write free mods outside the mod store to your heart's content, just as you ever could. The existence of paid mods doesn't seem to limit your ability to do that.