> Take Minecraft for example.[a] One used to be able to buy and play Minecraft without an account. Then Microsoft bought it and the game now requires an XBox Li

> Take Minecraft for example.[a] One used to be able to buy and play Minecraft without an account. Then Microsoft bought it and the game now requires an XBox Live account![b] Why? Sure, it wasn’t a big deal as I already had a MS account for Windows, but why must I use it? Somewhere between me having more or less accidentally created about a dozen (different) Microsoft accounts for all their previous and weird Many-SSO things, the Mojang acquisition and Mojang-internal account migrations it seems like my original 2009 account was just lost... :|