Minecraft is easy to pirate…but why? Well to answer you: there is 0 effort to pirate it, download the client.jar from mojang official APIs (which is totally FREE) and run the jar without using any valid session ID, done! What…that’s too easy, were is the catch? Well you can’t have a skin, you can’t play minecraft servers that don’t allow un-authenticated users and anyone can use the same user without any password
Is that really piracy? I mean i am using a free thing, not messing with microslop shit and servers - yes i did read mojang eula and no- it’s not against it.
So i wonder: can we not call it piracy? Dunno…i leave the words to y’all!

Edit: i don’t think it’s piracy because when you buy minecraft they give you an account to login in their auth servers, but you don’t even need to use the auth servers to access the game, just to use realms, access servers that don’t allow non authenticated users etc etc

  • utopiah@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    FWIW more than a decade ago someone post “Complete list of Minecraft clones!” on r/Minecraft and they were then more than 3 dozens, at least. Also a 2s DuckDuckGo search yields https://github.com/OpenCraft-Studios/OpenCraft namely an open source alternative

    So… regardless of one’s opinion on it being piracy or not I’m wondering WHY even do so. WHY even “pirate” (or not) something that is basically a 1st year developer student weekend program. It’s really not that complex. It can be really fun though! But… why support a dude who, already rich, sold his independent studio to a gigantic closed source for-profit corporation who now sells studio? Why not have a functional equivalent and NOT promote that thing?

    Anyway, IMHO yes it is privacy, that doesn’t meant it’s immoral though. It can also be moral to pirate… and yet less moral than supporting free and open alternatives that do exist.

    My 2 cents

    • Axolotl@feddit.itOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      The problem of those clones is that none of them is close to minecraft in feeling or gameplay, also, that was a decade ago, the game evolved a lot.

      Anyway, someone is working on a open source minecraft server replacement (written in rust!) https://pumpkinmc.org/