Minecraft dedicated server with a modified client

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That's highly posible, you're going to break digital rights management's, and even more of your going to monetize that server

The only way to create a own Java edition is creating the game from the scratch, with your own resources and programing it by yourself

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The old way was dedicated servers. That's how PC gaming worked.

Consoles don't have a way to dedicate a console as a gameserver, nor would most want to (ties up a console and a copy of the game). Devs came up with ways to run the server on the same device as one of the clients. While there are some true peer-to-peer multiplayer
titles, most are the client-as-server model.

Client-as-server has issues. It means the client functioning as the server has to have enough upload bandwidth to serve all the clients. It also means if the client-as-server device crashes or goes offline the game collapses. Dedicated servers don't have these
issues.

Dedicated servers - Hell yeah, as long as they use server side hit detection, not client side.

Totally agree with @Burst.

@Biscuit - yes the servers take up resources, but the Azure servers aren't just for gaming. MS is committed to them running for a wide range of clients/processes. It's certainly more efficient to use the Azure servers than dedicated servers - and will
lead to longer life of games (if gamers still play the game). It's "dedicated" servers that are a potential waste of resource.

[quote user="Burst Axe"]From my outlook "Open" means everyone can connect[/quote]While you can say that, it has no meaning. That's not what the term means with respect to NAT/PAT.

and if you can connect to XBL you can connect to anyone

One never
connects console to console in a dedicated server configuration. One's console connects to the dedicated server and that's it. All communication for the game is from multiple clients to a single server. By definition, you do not "connect to anyone", your console only
connects to Microsoft.



This distinction is important. With the 360, people are being DoS'ed or DDoS'ed because the "server" console's communication with all other player consoles exposes those player's IP addresses to the server. It's a trivial matter to harvest that information
and then do bad things with it. In a dedicated server environment, that's no longer possible. The only communication that takes place is from one's console to the dedicated server. 64 players on a dedicated server? None of the 64 player consoles would ever
communicate with any other player console.

because its essentially MS hosting everything instead of worrying about individual P2P connections.

Microsoft is providing dedicated server facilities as an option. Game developers are not being forced
to use Azure. It appears they're maintaining the option that current-day 360 titles use - ad-hoc election of a server console during match creation.



Also, there are very few true P2P games on the 360. Most are ad-hoc client/server where one console is elected the server for a match and the rest are clients.