Re:Literally worse than EA
by nl on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @08:18AM
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I wasn't really thinking of it as targeted at servers only - more improving the Minecraft ecosystem.
But since you mentioned it - Minecraft has a central authorisation system. It would be trivial to sell subscriptions to particular servers through an app store and have Mojang enforce that via the central authorisation.
That are lots and lots of benefits that could come form this, not least locking young kids down to play only on "family friendly" servers (which is pretty much impossible at the moment).
Damn.. I think this is even a better idea than my original one.
Someone on HN must know someone at Mojang? Please tell them to do this!!
But since you mentioned it - Minecraft has a central authorisation system. It would be trivial to sell subscriptions to particular servers through an app store and have Mojang enforce that via the central authorisation.
That are lots and lots of benefits that could come form this, not least locking young kids down to play only on "family friendly" servers (which is pretty much impossible at the moment).
Damn.. I think this is even a better idea than my original one.
Someone on HN must know someone at Mojang? Please tell them to do this!!