I made a thread like an hour after the Mojang article was released:
http://www.minecraftsurvivalgames.c...ales-donations-and-other-monetisation.111755/
Here's the quote if anyone is too lazy to load the page:
As it is, MCSG has only a few violations/grey areas of the new EULA that I know of:
Bounty. Not bountying a player, but the bounty points themselves. With a donor rank, you receive extra bounty, and
that can be counted as a currency, because
it can be spent on in-game items for your friends. Either MCSG has to remove the extra bounty for donors, or they have to remove/alter the sponsoring system. I say, personally, remove it from donor ranks.
Donor-kicking. I consider this a grey-area, but apparently Dinnerbone tweeted somewhere that it was allowed. Donors are allowed to receive kicking power to get into a full server, and it does not violate the EULA.
If MCTF2 implements donor-only classes, then that will be against the EULA.
The Creative server is not allowed to let Donors access things like redstone, while regular players cannot. It's all or nothing for everyone.
Flying, particularly MCSG's flying donor perk, is also not clear to some people. It does
not affect
competitive gameplay. However, it
does affect
overall gameplay, in the Hub and Lobby. Mojang doesn't care whether or not it's competitive or overall gameplay, the flying perk has to be removed.
I had something else really important to say, but I had to go sign up for a church camp so I don't remember what it was ;_;
Edit: Not 100% sure but it might have been:
Servers have almost no choice BUT to agree to this. If they don't, they can be criminally charged or some fancy thing like that because as it is, making money the way many servers have previously been is already illegal, just that Mojang hasn't really cared until now. If they DO agree to this, then they CAN still make money - legally! It's just a little bit harder.
Edit 2: Also, MCSG is fully aware of this, and I heard that they're going to rework the way the donation system works so that it complies with the EULA.