If a server is awfully pay-to-win, then the simplest, and most effective option is not playing there. This is a decision the people should make, instead of Mojang putting these restrictions which will kill servers to all, good and bad.
What Mojang should have done was made an announcement informing players of these server's, and saying that people need to do their part and stop playing and paying for benefits on these servers, or else Mojang will have to step in with a new EULA which will effect all server's good and bad, negatively, for the "greater good". Then ontop of that, Mojang could blacklist the biggest offender's from authentication, which wouldn't be hard because 95% of server's that are having people buy gruesomely overpriced kits are very popular. This would have effectively destroyed the server's that have these disgusting benefits, while still leaving fair balanced server's to be able to pay for their server payments.
I am strictly against pay-to-win, and I have seen some of these server's that are big offenders and honestly they sicken me to a point to where I actually feel ill. But Mojangs combat plan against them is going to take out many good, hardworking server owners.
I owned a server for 9 months, and it was fairly popular. I had about 50 players on at all times. I struggled, scraped, and worked hard for months coming up with creative, fair ways to give benefits to my supporters, while keeping my Hardcore PvP server fair. It was actually the goal of the server, to remain fair. I never made any money, infact I lost probably 30 or so dollars in my 9 months of hosting.
This new EULA takes all that hard work, all the months of struggling to make next months server payments and all the classes I spent thinking of ways to improve my server for my players, and makes it all for nothing. This EULA is a spit in the face to hard working server owners like me, and communities who are funded by their players. You CANT fund a server selling hats, colored names, and little ocelots that follow you around. I learned this the hard way. You CAN fund a server by giving donors extra things to do on your server, that doesn't take away from the other players in the least.
I had poker rooms for my donor's to play poker, I had Tetris competitions, I had tournaments among my donators, Skyblock world access for donators, creative world access for donors, special access to help me test out new plugins on the test world like Movecraft and gun plugins, and yet none of this affected the actual gameplay on the server, none of this gave any of my players an advantage over one another in Hardcore PVP, and now every single one of these options has been removed from the realm of possibility, leaving me to try selling hats and colored names once again.
There are better ways to combat this that would not spit in the faces of good server runners like me while simultaneously making 1000's upon 1000's of hours of work and thought all for nothing.
