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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by bolt7469 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:24PM (#32774575)
The MS controversy is that they implemented a centralized chat signing feature that is not opt-out. Most of the fun Minecraft servers are using a kind of server-side modding, but their users are playing with "vanilla" clients. So if you get banned by MS, you can't join those servers. MS is now the gatekeeper of offensive chat, not the individual servers.
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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by jimbob45 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:48PM (#32774727)
You’re saying the servers are fun and that’s fine. However, I’m of the opinion that it’s the players who make the game fun and if the players choose to play on virtual LAN servers, then they, in essence, opt-out of the censorship.
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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by kuschku on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:55AM (#32777342)
Even the LAN servers are still part of this censorship model. The only way to avoid this censorship is to crack the game and run the server in cracked mode.
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