Just want to clarify/reiterate that NOT ALL the servers in this list are pay-to-win! Only the ones I directly mentioned are. So as for the other servers on this list, please show kindness if you decide to join them. Thank you!

The only thing that stops Mojang from doing almost nothing about these pay to win servers are angry parents complaining about it.

The commerical usage guidelines are very vaguely/poorly written, but when they mention you can't sell things that give a competitive advantage in game, the reason pay to win servers are allowed is because they aren't considered competitive. And what Mojang deems as competitive, and has actually blocked servers for in the past, is if they offer real money payouts. If they don't have those, then in the eyes of Mojangs guidelines they aren't considered competitive, and thus are allowed to be pay to win. They really should rewrite the guidelines to be clearer. I also applied to get my server on this list, curious to see what happens.

I'm starting to genuinely question where Minecraft is heading. I've seen so many games fall to bad practices, greed & terrible decision making... I hope they don't go down the same road, but it's almost inevitable.

Mojang is litterally going full circle holy shit

Guns? 😡😡😡 Frogs eating fireflies? 😡😡 Parrots eating cookies? 😡😡😡 Getting children addicted to gambling? 🤑🤑🤑

Fun fact, the badge with a hammer on it is a server that was, "recently reviewed by the Mojang Enforcement team and are found to comply with the Minecraft Usage Guidelines for running the server." They were not only reviewed by GamerSafer, but also Mojang, and every server listed includes the badge...

After looking into this myself with the server "OP blocks" according to the website it has been assigned the "Builders Benchmark" Badge and this is the description provided for this badge. "Servers with this Badge have been recently reviewed by the Mojang Enforcement team and are found to comply with the Minecraft Usage Guidelines for running the server." and after looking at EVERY P2W SERVER sal showed in this video. every single one has the Builders benchmark badge meaning according to the site it was reviewed by mojang and allowed to exist on the site. i wish it was ignorance but this really is telling another story.

Mojang is slowly following in the footstep of some *specific* game companies.

Another concern is that the creation of this Official Server List feels like Mojang is trying their hands on taking back control of the servers & make everything Kid-friendly - "Game Safer" as a name should ring some alarm bells. If the Official List became the go-to for most people, 3rd party Server Lists will slowly dwindle in popularity. Then, the servers will have to make their server kid-friendly to gain access to large potential playerbase. Kind of like how most websites don't risk getting delisted off of Google.

"World-leading technology to scale SAFETY and FAIR PLAY" That one 5 year old kid that bought 100x Rainbow Keys for 300$ just to get beacon with 0.1% chance:

I commemorate Mojang, for continuing the trend of 'Well Respected companies randomly becoming pieces of shit for no reason at a specific time in 2023'.

This isn't entirely a Mojang issue, its a GamerSafer issue for allowing them on the list before Mojang collaborated. But now that Mojang has tied themselves to it calling it "The OFFICIAL server list of Minecraft" it makes it FAR worse. It's just now there's 2 groups that aren't properly vetting the servers with something as simple as checking the servers website for if they follow TOS.

I'm forever grateful I got to experience Minecraft in its prime during the early 2010s and not have to put up with the kind of bullshit Mojang has been pushing for the last couple of years

Another frustrating thing with the server list is that there seems to be no confirmation about any of the inputted information. For example, some server spam every tag there is just to show up in search results more. Like if you want to find servers running 1.2, you can't, because it's just filled with servers that have applied every version tag. Sure, there are some plugins that allow you to join servers in different versions. But that doesn't mean that the servers should be allowed to advertise that they actually *run* those versions.

When I saw LoverFella's server on the list... I have no words. They literally, officially support and approve of servers that literally break their rules and guidlines... when will this circus end?

I think GamerSafer was likely paid by the servers to include them at the top of the list. Mojang is likely not even involved with the making of this server list and just wanted to slap their name on it for credibility.

We need more people to cover this issue. Servers like this encourage careless and reckless spending amongst under age users who are easily advertised to

Another way of going under the radar is to disable and hide all the P2W elements for the duration of the review, and once they're officially on the list, they can put it all back online.

Mojang: "You're not allowed to swear on private Minecraft servers" Also Mojang: "You're allowed to have a server that's pay-to-win"

it's really sad what the state of minecraft servers are now, barely anyone plays any fun minigames, if anyone actually, every single popular minigame is PVP, and it has so many sweats that it's impossible to enjoy as a casual, every single server that has over 100 players are pvp with crates, wheel of fortunes, and every other form of gambling, it's so bad that I just play Modded Singeplayer.

Haven forbid even a single server has plugins that add not-approved weapons but servers promoting gambling to kids or with pay-to-win ranks that give access to op items and commands. This feels like something that will be fixed later but it shouldn't be up to the community to fix Mojang's lack of judgement when they allow something they take seriously like servers following their rules and guidelines

Wow, just wow. It is (or at least was, I did not check it recently at all) clearly stated in Minecraft's guidelines, that you are *not* allowed to sell kits, items, etc. which give you regular items as rewards like diamonds. And literally the kit you showed us had 32 Diamonds as a part of the kit.

Ah yes, I love minecraft's motto: Build, Explore, and Buy

Mojang never fails to disappoint...

Shoutout to OPBlocks selling you both "No Hunger" and a single stack of Steak in the same tier.

What I'm most disturbed by is the "3 Hour Death Ban" which sounds like if you kill someone they can't respawn for 3 hours, which is more than enough time to grief them and let their stuff despawn

I'm honestly much more shocked at them having a COBBLEMON server on their official endorsed list... Surely one of their lawyers would have looked at that, then at the rapidly approaching Nintendo lawyers and said "nope".

Can we appreciate how little effort Minecraft puts in their game these days.

The war against pay-to-win servers is far from over.

Mojang: bans guns on servers Also mojang: allows p2w servers when they are specifically not allowed.

I wonder... If Mojang is brazenly allowing P2W servers on their official browser, is it because they just don't care? Or is it because they cut a deal with those servers to get a cut of the profits? I don't know which one is worse tbh

I still love Minecraft, but it's obvious that Mojang and their philosophy has drastically changed since Microsoft purchased them.

We need to dupe on every pay 2 Win Server To make them *play to have fun*

There's a report option that takes waaaay to long to use. They basically want us to collect all the evidence of what the servers doing wrong, compile it with links and at least one screenshot, and who knows if they'll even look at the report. Love doing all the work they should be doing, but I'm not being paid for it.

Ah yes, "safety-and-security-focused" servers that support gambling!

when I saw LoverCraft at the top of the server list I knew that they weren't properly moderating the list at all, hopefully Mojang steps in soon

Mojang believes in players being able to have a sense of Pride And Accomplishment™

You should make a pop server that has a rank with the command kill all, which kills everyone except the player and gives you the best loot from everyone just to see if it can get through

I remember the times when Mojang was the most based game studio out there, good times.

So they add p2w servers to the list but not Hypixel??

Basically all game companies are making their games a dystopia

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the TOS states that you are not allowed to gain any COMPETITIVE advantage. The key word is competitive here. I spent maybe a good 5 minutes logging onto servers with "p2w" ranks, and warping to any pvp zone. If you try to do /heal or any commands that may give you an advantage, it will most likely prompt you with something like "this command is not allowed in this zone". This is the case for 90% of servers with the op commands, they are not allowed to be used in any type of pvp or "competitive advantage". There is no rule against having op commands for non competitive things that won't effect anyone else. Hypixel Skyblock for example, had to remove the Colosseum (the pvp zone), because they started to introduce ways to convert irl money to in game currency, in which they removed all "competitive" aspects. I'm not saying that there are servers on this list that are actually p2w (like faction ranks), but it feels like the majority of these servers sell ranks that won't give the "competitive advantage" and go against TOS.

If mojang doesent do anything about it then the community themselves have to destroy these P2W servers.

rev up the server lagging machines boys

Mojang is fully collapsing at this point 💀💀

*Mojang: All content needs to be for all ages* *Also mojang (aka microsoft): But it’s perfectly fine to scam them*

It would have taken one Mojang intern an afternoon of quickly checking all the server websites to remove like 95% of the pay-to-win servers on the list, smh.

The irony of that creepy Loverfella dude's server being on the kid-safe server list is so juicy.

mojang: p2w servers is against TOS also mojang:

hey Sal, you're legitimately an awesome guy for bringing this to light

Notch leaving Minecraft was a sign of things to come.

I was in The Horizon’s video with the minecarts about MineSuperior. I got banned after spending approx $2k over 4 months (I’m an adult, am retired and can afford it). I complained about the amount of gambling being offered to minors and that they were opening themselves up to a lawsuit. Because of this, I was banned for “threatening legal action against the server” and perm banned. They also banned my nephew’s account because we played on the same IP. They are 100% trash, and I’m disgusted that Mojang did NOTHING to penalize them when I made several reports to them about it.

So now you and the AntiP2W crowd have a hit-list. We remember what a debacle MCBans was (god bless TeamAvolition and give them ice-cream); so now we move to make sure, just like with MCBans, that being on the community list puts a target on your back. Being on the community list is not worth the headache of dealing with dupers and griefers. Being on the community list is *terrible for business,* and server ops would be better off on their own.

Dang I've been playing on Complex for years and it's sad to see where it's gone

OPBlocks in particular is even worse, because they have something that is against the Minecraft TOS: Pay2win in crates/loot boxes (the crystals.) The whole ranks thing is a grey area that the support staff will tell you is "Actually Okay to have." But as soon as they're included in loot crates/boxes, Mojang really doesn't like it. As it goes against the whole gambling thing. The Loverfella server also is one that does this too. Another issue is that one of the servers is abusing tags. It has no English description whatsoever, but says it's English.

Safer in this context means almost assuredly means that they're brand safe for Microsoft.

time to make our own Minecraft boys

Greediness has a limit. Beware of its consequences. Also mojang or this "company" is avoiding the responsibility to keep everything in check. Its just sad.

Only last hope we can have is that they want those servers on the list and then ban them permanently so they can at least keep track of the bad guys... but then again, it wasn't even supposed to be on the list to begin with so they already failed at that task which is just stupid and sad :(

When a game company is led by business men instead of big boys who actually play games, this is bound to happen.

It’s worth noting that some of the p2w servers don’t give an advantage over other players when it’s not competitive, so I don’t think they would count against the guidelines(but something like that /near command definitely implies that there’s a good, competitive use to seeing other players)

Mojang do not have, and should not have any say over community servers so this does not matter

I love that mojang, with all the infinite resources of minecraft, outsources an official server list instead of making a solution themselves. It feels very in-line with mojang's behaviour but still feels a bit weird.

Servers on this site are user submitted so its not a case of Mojang endorsed but Mojang (and/or gamersafer) arent moderating the site properly. If you look the site doesn't even list Hypixel on there because the owners have to list it themselves and bare in mind this site opened 4 days ago. It's almost the same system as the bedrock marketplace there are so many servers that it would be impossible to manually verify each one so they let users submit them and are probably working on a team to go through and remove the really bad ones after the fact

This is giving me KZfaq community guidelines flashbacks. "Abide by all these rules, but also we let advertisements/official servers run that break all of these!"

Holy shit, i didnt even think of this! That really sucks and I hope mojang finally clarifies their guidelines and/or actually enforces them properly.

I distinctly remember this being opposed by Mojang back in 2013/2014. It came with a whole slate of other EULA changes but selling items on servers was a distinct callout. Oh well, guess they need to breathe new life into the 3rd party server space with their clampdowns on free speech

We trully are living in the darkest timeline

remember when mojang just made a game and that was it?

awesome video as always, sal! also is it just me or did you just use a gw2 osts? out of curiosity, do you play it? its honestly such a cool game. :")

When I first heard about the official list this is exactly what I was worried about

I knew the day would come 😢 lets make our own minecraft guys!

We now officially live in the darkest timeline.

Sal, I don't know if you've been informed, but the official server site is literally down right now, like "this site doesn't function and it doesn't look like it was taken down for maintenance" type of down. Wow.

Yo Sal you missed this line just a few lines up in the Usage Guidelines "Asking for donations, so long as you don’t offer the donor something that only they can use However, you may offer all players server wide rewards if donation goals are met."

I am thfrom eating scented candles

Please post an update on the response they give from the report you send. I would really like to know how they deal with it! Thanks :)

mojang : as long as i get your money you're fine

I wish they would just make an official statement cementing their position on this, instead of leaving it as an ambiguous mess

i want to live in 2014 again

Since this is official that means the FCC can get involved! Call the FCC and report that Mojang is doing this as this is a violation of COPPAA and will likely get Mojang shut down if they refuse to comply with the law.

Man the first thing i checked was this and its really sad to see this happening

Would have been cool, if you might have waited for an answer from the support Or maybe a follow up video would be nice

I can only think that they build a nice facade when they got reviewed and are now, that they are on the list, showing their real colors. But of curse it could also be that they are lying and that they arent actually vetting each server in depth or even at all.

For all those who fought against p2w servers o7

I was really trying to figure out why the music sounded so familiar and turned out it was Guild Wars. Think this is the first time I've seen a video using the OST so props for that.

I hope you make a follow up vid, with what they respond to you or something like that.

Considering Mojang's recent track record, them approving servers like this isn't that hard to believe.

"What if I told you that Mojang has officially approved pay to win servers?" Hypixel has been the most popular server for like eight years, this isn't news to me lmao

Man, even Mojang employees skipped the EULA and just hit agree 💀

I swear, Mojang is just taking L after L.

For those not happy with the current state of minecraft, I suggest giving minetest a try. It's free and amazing. One tip: install mods for a better experience. The base game is very barebone like early minecraft but it comes with the modloader out of the box.

THEY MAY APPROVE OF P2W, BUT I DON'T!

Omg Lemoncloud. That was my first server before I knew any better. I'd always hoped you'd do one of your economy killing videos there. 😅

I love how they didn't even put hypixel on the top nor is it searchable

is it down for anyone else? could be a good sign

Hey Sal, I have a question. Will you be making 2B2T content ever again. I mean, I truly like the content you make now such as this vid, but even more do I like the 2B2t content. ❤

I love that SalC1 educates us on stuff i wouldn't know im dumb :p

Something has to be wrong with the vetting process. There's no way a server that has an $80 booster pack with efficiency 100 tools and player proximity commands is considered fair gameplay to a $0 run. It's either that or ACTUAL GAMBLING within the servers. Most don't even bother to list the chances of each drop, so you could be throwing money at an item with a 0.007% drop rate.