Madnet said:
Well not entirely but one can say that this business practice of Mojang is worse than the business practice of EA. Because at least they are willing to enforce their rules instead of being pathetic like Mojang and not enforcing the rules they set. If anything I would try to get people to actively uninstall minecraft or not buy the game at all because this a very dangerous path to set going forward. Say it with me pay 2 win is the future of minecraft, and the funny thing is you can't even win minecraft. Think about it If it was EA I would be outraged instead of a "beloved indie developer".
The problem is you can't really enfource the 'rules'. Too many servers, impossible to track who's doing what. That you're essentially saying is that every server should be officially hosted by mojang but that'd make for dull, boring, and laggy servers.(No mods, no plugins).
What people are doing are
hosting servers by paying out of their own pockets
setting up a donation store for a certain amount of items/privileges
asking people to spend money to keep said server up.
This is by no means the only game that has people that do this. Garry's Mod servers do it with much worse things on a frequent basis, by giving admin out. But mostly in gamemodes where they get a distinct advantage(Stupid amount of money, OP weaopns ect ect)
TF2 servers do it by granting admin out sometimes, or to grant donators the privellege of starting votes(To kick/ban/change maps/what ever else) or to get more OP powers.
Terraria does the same thing as minecraft
CSS does the same as TF2
This a problem that is no way limited to Minecraft, and it makes sense. People need money to keep servers up, and if you don't like said server, leave that server.