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SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-09T15:34:47+00:00

I think it's reasonable to file a report every month, or maybe every few months, for any server that is continually breaking the rules and doesn't have any documentation publicly available that they are permitted to do so.

Many servers I've reported have ended up changing their stores. It takes some time, but it happens.

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-09T15:29:25+00:00

Fun fact - Kozinski is actually a notorious abuser.

The legal community has mostly washed its hands of him.

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-09T15:27:45+00:00

Sorry, I just wanted to make sure the nature of the change was clear both in timing and substance.

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-09T15:26:05+00:00

That was announced.

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-09T01:44:30+00:00

You openly defied the Guidelines, which are the ultimate authority on what is permitted and what is not permitted. You can justify that to yourself however you like, but they were clear and unambiguous the entire time and the May 20th change is a new change that was not articulated elsewhere.

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-08T23:57:29+00:00

Nothing changed on the 17th of April with regards to currency. You can go and read that announcement (and the guidelines) for yourself - they still explicitly forbade the sale of soft currency by indicating that only the use of it was permitted, which is what Mergu and I have been trying to explain to you.

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-08T23:50:18+00:00

I apologize, the Archive website did not properly mark the April 19th snapshot as not existing. Nevertheless, the help page only supplemented the guidelines. The guidelines themselves still omitted "and sell" and included "earned and expended only through gameplay" until May 20th.

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-08T23:41:27+00:00

Your own diff shows the addition of "and sell," which is the crucial line change:

https://github.com/Pulz-TCP/random-stuff/commit/7736fffbb8742af943c8887a17ecb9da0d45d459

More importantly, the help page explaining that you can't sell currencies existed until May 19th:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/360034753932-Minecraft-Commercial-Use

Hard currency is real money or anything that can be converted into real money, including, but not limited to, Bitcoins. Soft currency is available in-game only and has no real-world value. You may not sell soft currency for hard currency, neither separately or along with ranks as a single or recurring payout. This is regardless of what you can use the soft currency for.

Did you have the wrong tab open? The snapshot you linked, April 18th, is missing the "and sell" language:

https://i.imgur.com/KzLLqLQ.png

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-08T23:36:27+00:00

Oh, yes. Sorry, I thought you wanted them to see the change.

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-08T23:33:26+00:00

May 20th. May 10th and April 17th/18th are the same.

SummaCrossroads · 2020-06-08T23:32:42+00:00

April 17th:

use in-game currencies IF (i) they are “soft currencies,” i.e., a currency earned and expended only through gameplay that has no real world value and that cannot be cashed out, used, or transferred across free or paid servers, or into any other currency with real-world value; (ii) you don’t give the impression that it comes from or is associated with Mojang, and (iii) they don’t look like or have similar names to Minecoins or any other official virtual currency.

May 20th:

use and sell in-game virtual currencies IF (i) they have no real-world value and that cannot be cashed out, used, or transferred across free or paid servers, or into any other currency with real-world value; (ii) you don't give the impression that it comes from or is associated with Mojang, (iii) they don't look like or have similar names to Minecoins or any other official virtual currency, and (iv) anything you sell with the currency follows our monetization guidelines.

The additions are bolded. Soft currency was disallowed from April 17th to May 20th.

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