Sorry, there will never be a Bernie Sanders (or Colonel Sanders) version of Minecraft - charlesswuzzy

Donald Trump bottom buy himself many things, only he will never be able to officially build a 10,000-block-richly statue of himself in Minecraft. Your dreams of exploring a mammoth Taco Bell Chalupa? Dead. And nary, father't expect to mine Moria as portion of aLord of the Rings server.

Microsoft and its Mojang subsidiary said Tuesday that they will set out blocking corporations and politicians from using Minecraft to raise their own agendas, including the sale of products, movies, OR persuasion views.

"We want to empower our biotic community to make money from their creativeness, but we're not happy when the selling of an misrelated product becomes the function of a Minecraft mod or server," Mojang wrote in a blog post. The new additions are now part of Mojang's Commercial Usage Guidelines.

minecraft king kong — As longsighted as this doesn't explicitly promote a *King Kong* sequel, you're good.

Why this matters: The problem, according to Mojang, is that Minecraft has grown so large that IT's now a workable political program for promoting products and services, especially through shared servers that seat be accessed by just all but anyone. Reported to Mojang, the company has sold over 23.5 million copies of the Java version of Minecraft, with additional sales loss toward Windows 10's UWP version of the game. Many of those users are also watching Minecraft-themed videos on YouTube, which can also serve every bit vehicles to promote products.

The new rules apply chiefly toward players developing mods or shared servers, where they can control what self-satisfied players see. As of nowadays, Mojang now says that usrs who build a Minecraft modern North Korean won't be fit to design a mod that promotes an "unrelated" third-party product, much as a Burger King.

weird minecraft statue — Let's promise that this wasn't Marco Rubio.

Likewise, mods and mapmakers won't be able to design a world specifically intended to market a movie or TV show, such Eastern SamoaMaster of the Rings.

However, there's one enormous loophole: Fans of a show OR a product "are still free to build things in Minecraft that represent or celebrate it sol long as the goal or focus is not to promote or sell that stuff," Mojang wrote. Sol if you really want to physical body the world's largest Twinkie, you can—as all-night as the owners haven't asked you to build IT.

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