The End of 2b2t?

On August 2nd, 2023, the Minecraft EULA was  updated after three years; this update included   multiple new rules, but the new guideline that has  been causing chaos in the anarchy community in the   last 24 hours hides in one single sentence: “Acess  to your server can’t be limited to or controlled,  

Directly or indirectly, by a player owning or  having access to out-of-game content, products,   or services.” Before discussing that, the  community is split between what this means   for 2b2t and other anarchy servers. We’ll  start if it does apply to the server.  

Since 2b2t has a priority queue system, this would  mean that the server is limited to or controlled   by a player, which would be the Hausemaster(s)  that own or have access to out-of-game content,   which would be the priority queue. The  server is limited since you have to wait  

Hours just to get into the main server without  buying a priority queue. If this is the case,   2b2t would be non-EULA compliant and  have to remove its priority queue system,   meaning no more money for Hausemaster, which  could lead to the downfall of the server.  

But can 2b2t survive without a priority queue  system? Well, let’s look at what Hausemaster could   do. With no more priority queue, Hausemaster  has two options: donations and cosmetics.   The EULA says you can make money by charging for  access to your server by: “Asking for donations,  

So long as you don’t offer the donor something  that only they can use. However, you may offer   all players server-wide rewards if donation  goals are met.” Hausemaster can bring back the   donation goal website that was used years ago. However, we don’t know how much the donation goal  

Would have to be. It would be much more  compared to post-2016 from all the new   hardware and modifications to the server. If the  donation goal is not met, Hausemaster could resort   to implementing cosmetics or in-game display  and video advertising since the EULA states:  

“Selling cosmetics, except for capes or  anything that attempts to visually act like   the feature of a Minecraft player cape.”  and “Providing an in-game display and video   advertising that doesn’t hurt gameplay or give  some players any competitive advantage.”   For cosmetics, Hausemaster would have to pull  something similar to another anarchy server,  

6b6t. On 6b6t, they have separate ranks that  allow players to have highlighted nametags,   perks outside the server, and a tab prefix.  The more money you give to the server,   the more cosmetics you get. But you could also argue that would  

Ruin the anarchy experience of the server. Would  2b2t be considered anarchy if players are run   similarly to Hypixel? This is a last resort for  Hausemaster. But I don’t think this could end 2b2t   since a donation goal could be better for players  instead of relying on a priority queue system. If  

Hausemaster relied on donations, he would need  to be involved with the community. He would need   to keep players updated on the news and keep the  server up to date, and if he doesn’t, he will most   likely lose donations over time. It would become  a “improve or die” type situation. Ironically,  

By the time of this video, Hausemaster has been a  lot more active with updating the server to 1.19,   so maybe this update to the EULA has something  to do with it, but that’s just speculation.   But what if all of this doesn’t apply to  the server? Well, there have been some  

Good counterarguments. The player who  told me about the updated EULA, Forge,   made a post on the 2b2t uncensored subreddit.  He discusses the same thing I discussed,   but the comments have been split. Some argue that  since the EULA doesn’t mention queue systems,  

They are not preventing that but are preventing  you from charging access to a server by buying   something outside the game. Priority queue  wouldn’t be a limitation because it’s not an   access charge, as it’s not required to play. Another counterargument I saw was in the Mineplex  

Discord from one of the developers. He says the  new EULA has nothing to do with a game queue. It   just means you can’t make someone buy your toy  from the store to play on your server.   Multiple anarchy server owners have been  panicking when they saw the new EULA. One of them,  

StormSplurge, said these changes are no reason to  panic. The EULA has always been overly aggressive   but rarely enforced except for massive servers.  When they banned the Pay-2-Win ranks in 2015,   hardly anything changed, and only the  largest servers like Mineplex, HiveMC,  

And Hypixel had to make noticeable changes. In any case, this new EULA has caused a lot of   confusion for everyone. Outside of anarchy  servers, the new EULA will cause more chaos   as plenty of new rules have caused outrage,  but not many people know about it yet. I’ve  

Seen some Anarchy server owners start to  lose motivation since the EULA can now be   updated anytime and add a new rule that could  pull the rug anytime. There are theories that   2b2t has been reported and investigated in the  past, which could be why there have been mutes  

And bans and leading Mojang to target 2b2t’s  priority queue system, and I doubt that this   new EULA will be the last update. For the past three months, I’ve been   working on a video about the rise  and fall of Minecraft Java servers,  

Which will be over 40 minutes long. I’ll include  the new rules in that video, which should be out   in a few weeks. If you want updates on that, join  my Discord server in the description and tell  

Me in the comments what you guys think about all  of this. Do you think this is the end of 2b2t?