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February this year I migrated my Mojang (Minecraft) account to a Microsoft Account, which I created solely for this use. I played a bit on a local world with ju

February this year I migrated my Mojang (Minecraft) account to a Microsoft Account, which I created solely for this use. I played a bit on a local world with just myself. The account had a unique, secure password and was secured with TOTP 2FA when I set it up. I recently tried to play the game again but was told I had to login again. Doing so locked my account because it had been used in ways which violated Microsoft's ToS: hacking, phishing or scamming other users. They demanded my telephone number before they'd allow me to use it again. I basically consider this account and the game lost now. I didn't buy this game when it was owned by Microsoft, but will never buy anything from Microsoft which requires me to have an account with them ever again.

63 4y ago
Iirc that's a common occurrence. For some reason Microsoft really wants phone numbers associated with accounts.
uallo 4y ago
They did the same thing to an account I used to access Bing Webmaster Tools. Instead of giving them anything, I now actively move friends and family away from Bing. Not that many of them used it in the first place, but now there are none left as far as I know.
falsenapkin 4y ago
Yeah that was a frustrating experience. I caved though, but they also didn't like that I was using a phone number already associated with an account that I use for office... I didn't want them to be the same account. Tangent, after giving in to the phone I became more disillusioned with Minecraft as 1) MS appears to have canceled a 3rd installment of music from C418 over licensing issues (C418 wanted rights) and instead got some new artists whose music is good but doesn't fit the nostalgic vibe and seems played more often as well as with regularity in certain scenarios (previously it was fully random) and 2) classic case of S****horpe censoring and bans, applied to inoffensive words, peoples names, other languages, private servers, peoples pre-existing user name, even within commands, etc...
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TowerTall 4y ago
What Phone are you using? IPhone? Android? Unless you have no phone or a pine phone, can you expand on why is is ok to have an apple or google account, but not a Microsoft Account?

63 4y ago

Iirc that's a common occurrence. For some reason Microsoft really wants phone numbers associated with accounts.

uallo 4y ago

They did the same thing to an account I used to access Bing Webmaster Tools. Instead of giving them anything, I now actively move friends and family away from Bing. Not that many of them used it in the first place, but now there are none left as far as I know.

falsenapkin 4y ago

Yeah that was a frustrating experience. I caved though, but they also didn't like that I was using a phone number already associated with an account that I use for office... I didn't want them to be the same account. Tangent, after giving in to the phone I became more disillusioned with Minecraft as 1) MS appears to have canceled a 3rd installment of music from C418 over licensing issues (C418 wanted rights) and instead got some new artists whose music is good but doesn't fit the nostalgic vibe and seems played more often as well as with regularity in certain scenarios (previously it was fully random) and 2) classic case of S****horpe censoring and bans, applied to inoffensive words, peoples names, other languages, private servers, peoples pre-existing user name, even within commands, etc...

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TowerTall 4y ago

What Phone are you using? IPhone? Android? Unless you have no phone or a pine phone, can you expand on why is is ok to have an apple or google account, but not a Microsoft Account?