Reliability is probably about the same, but the Microsoft account signup process is a nightmare compared to the old Mojang system. There's like 4 different X-B

Reliability is probably about the same, but the Microsoft account signup process is a nightmare compared to the old Mojang system. There's like 4 different X-Box or Game like websites with slightly different usernames and they don't talk with one another and various features are scattered across all of them. Even flipping the switch that lets you join an online game is buried half a dozen menus deep in the bowels of the system and is labeled in a way that you'll never find it if you didn't Google for the instructions first. It's so unnecessarily complex and confusing. The worst part is that some bot years ago signed up for the X-Box account using the same email I used for the Mojang account so converting the account first required me to take over the bot account with a password reset. But the bot set the account in up German and it's apparently impossible to switch the language settings for everything. I got most of it switched over (across four completely different configuration pages), but stuff like the emails are still sent in German. I'm pretty sure my account is going to be locked sometime in the future once they figure out that it was originally a bot account and there is no chance I'm going to be able to get my alpha Minecraft account back when that happens.