> How is this good for anyone? A significant number of Minecraft players do not understand that servers are not ran by Mojang, they don't understand that the s

> How is this good for anyone? A significant number of Minecraft players do not understand that servers are not ran by Mojang, they don't understand that the servers they're playing on are ran by independent third parties (often individuals with no business registration) so when they're asked to spend $10, $20, $100 by a server they believe they're spending money on the game itself (much like buying something on the xbox market place), they believe they're paying to play Minecraft and that because Minecraft is a big popular game that they have all of the consumer protections that come with purchasing from a legitimate company... They don't have any consumer protections though, they're 10 year old kids paying other kids $10 for a chest of diamonds and when that 10 year old gets banned it's Mojang who deal with the fallout. As I said I don't know if it's the right decision but I do believe that this is a move to protect their customers and that it isn't a conspiracy to sell more Realms. My experience managing a third-party website backs this up because I deal with tickets from parents regarding server purchases, just as Mojang have said they do.