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They are not running the online service. These are community servers.
by bspammer 4y ago
They are not running the online service. These are community servers.
- autoexec 4y agoMicrosoft's service is the account system that they also forced everyone to sign up for. They took a popular product that didn't need them and inserted themselves in-between the game and the players so they could collect the players money, take their data, and control their behavior.
- guipsp 4y agoMinecraft always had accounts, and you always had some amount of communication with mojang servers for authentications (otherwise anyone could spoof usernames and get other people banned).