Why is Online Skyblock like a Pay to Play?

I have a realy heavy Question for you:
Why do you set up a Skyblock Server, where you need to get Ingame cash (Grass Block) to do more at your Skybase?
The Idea of making it Online and trade with other Players is really cool and to trade with Villagers (yeah, but with farmable Items), but you can't do more than get tons of Cobblestone and farm with Melons and Pumpkins.
In the Offline/Lokal Mode, you had yourself or friends to get all the stuff, but here on the server you have to PAY for it!
Sorry, but that's not cool :/

 

Then don't play on the servers if you do not like it.

 

Most of the items that require Grass Blocks can be obtained from other players by trading, not necessarily for Grass Blocks. That's the beauty of Skyblock, you can trade for just about everything (perhaps not Sand) that you want with other players, not just the villagers.

 

yeah but I get what he is saying, you need materials to play if u don't pay u get like nothing except for like3 grass blocks in an hour of ma j. I personaly think noobcrew should charge a bit less for all the ranks

is that what u meant?

 

They are donations, not "ranks"
Yes, they give you a rank, but that's to make the younger players donate.

Don't like the servers? Don't donate, simple as that.

 

To make younger players donate? That would piss them off so hard dude.

 

Why would it?
I'm not going to lie, I donated for the items.

 

Hunterpence1021, yes that's what I meant,
And if they JUST let mobs spawn normal, no one need to craft stacks of stoneswords and leatherarmor to get 1 or 2 drops from the evil mops and have not do get their luck in the animal areal.
OR give the donaters a "special" skyblock world where they can harvest more and have a nether door or something.

 

Seriously, hardly at all, it's not meant to be easy

 

It's like what maximilian500. If you don't like the server, don't play on 'em. Ain't no need to make a big deal out of it, right Maxi?

 

Not true, you can easily farm up stuff like Wool, Wood, Cobblestone, Stone which you can sell for more than 3 grass blocks/hour. Wood these days goes from 3-5 iron/stack, and it doesnt even take that long to farm. Need bones? /warp mob has lots of free bones. /ma j is an inefficient way of getting grass blocks compared to other methods.

 

pen23 I like the Idea, but not that what they done with it.

 

blaq, okey thats an Idea, but it don't work everytime and not so good.

 

Because servers aren't free to run, the more players a server has, the more it costs to maintain.

 

Why not? Being lazy or impatient is not an excuse. That's for donors

 

you don't HAVE to pay to play you can trade in items and and/or just do it the real way.

 

So I tried to trade and to be friendly, no one answer to my trades (I wanted to trade wool,Wood,etc in stacks for something that you can't get "normaly").
So blaq : sorry farm = grass blocks don't work as well as you told.
But it's still an online Server where People want to see other skyblocks and just wann talk. Thats cool and it's fo free ^^'
So I can have my fun ... sometimes.
PS: Server needs a trust or private plugin.

 

If you meant what I think, the servers both have protected islands and lockette for your chests so you don't

 

You can still make your island as good as any donor's without donating, you just have to put a bit more effort in.