Some days ago a friend of mine told me Mojang is banning accounts detected VPN usage. He sent me Mojang's reply when players appealed:

English translation starting from second paragraph:

"We have banned your account because you used a VPN for connecting our services. We understand that you need to use our services but unfortunately we do not allow such behavior. If you continue to use a VPN, we will ban and remove your account permanently. We are developing a Chinese version where you can find more information at /* link */.

We have not recovered your account linked with /* email */. (It seems like a typo, have not -> have) Please reset your password and protect account security by enabling security questions.

Thank you"

I thought it was fake for a moment and I simply do not understand why Mojang Support kind of advertised the Chinese version (the banned player is Chinese), which is allegedly "very different" from the current PC version. If it wasn't fake, does this policy only target Chinese players?

So I send an email to them and stated there were nothing written about VPN usage would get you banned. I requested them to clarify on the matter and here's their response.

I was almost raging. I replied:

"Your EULA/ToS has stated nothing about VPN usage, while you can ban accounts arbitrarily as long as you explain "for security reasons" when anyone asked. This is ridiculous.

I hope you would understand that many players have to use VPNs in order to play on foreign servers smoothly. Banning players from using VPN because some abuse them is like banning players from changing skins just because some skins are deemed inappropriate.

If you have to do this, state it clearly in the User License Agreement. I do not care about your reasons or eleboration. I care about the rights of us players."

What the hell, Mojang.