I stopped playing on private servers due to abusive admins, excessive lists of rules, and, overall toxicity upon private servers.
I hate getting into a server to be told that there are rules that I must read that were not clearly defined. When the rules are read, and followed they usually changed on a dime causing the admin to destroy the building that I had already made, or making changes to a said build when I was offline for a day or two. Also most of the private servers that I had joined had pages and pages of rules yet the admins upon said servers did not follow said rules. So now I only play singleplayer so I know that all the hard work I had done is not destroyed because someone who thinks of themselves as god did not change said rules on a dime.
I also left private servers due to the excessive amount of lag upon said servers, and due to admins building things like rp towns that would just clutter up the server. I also had run into an admin who build a giant walled dungeon that obstructed everyone’s movement after taking over a server from another admin who seemed to be doing a great job running things until he left. Then the server was taken over by an individual who completely destroy the server, and its community.
Personally I play games to relax, and to have fun. Not to be presented with 1000 rules that are not followed by everyone, and are just put in place to make the players who join lives more difficult. A good example of this is servers that dont allow players to use foundation blocks as an actual foundation. Not talking about foundation walls, but actually using a foundation to build a building.
Anyways singleplayer in my opinnion is the only way to play this game without coming back to a base destroyed, an admin rampaging and destroying everything because they got angry, or having to deal with people who are just generally toxic. Its sad because I used to enjoy playing on multiplayer servers back in the day, but now it seems that you cant even move 2 feet in the game without being presented with some outlandish rule.
So in all honesty that is my specific reason for not playing on private servers. Private servers are rife with admin abuse, and admins have ruined the game for me since I cannot build a base without it being destroyed (could have even been a small base and they manage to destroy that as well 10 foundations literally still a problem). Anyways if admins would change there stance on the amount of rules they impliment to servers, and stop wasting the time of the player then maybe I would return back to private servers, but until that time I am going to be playing singleplayer since it seems to be the only viable game mode left that does not come with mountain sized amounts of un-needed drama.
Had nothing to do with the purge, and had nothing to do with the game overall. I am more afraid to play on private servers because it is actually what made me salty about this game, and started to make me quite angry. Now after a while of playing singleplayer I can say I am in a better headspace, but in all honesty I would never go back to another private server again unless it was like it was in the past.
Its just sad that I cant seem to find a single private server in this game that is not rife with admin abuse.