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Minecraft has been around for more than 15 years, and the game was already fully recognisably itself by around 2012. There's 13 years of additions that will alw

Minecraft has been around for more than 15 years, and the game was already fully recognisably itself by around 2012. There's 13 years of additions that will always feel mostly unnecessary to many players.

mapt 2y ago
These people will have to buy a second account because Microsoft up and deleted them when they bought Minecraft, and haven't been sued yet. If you were paying attention at the time they offered a migration process for Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts... and then turned it off because 'fuck you that's why'. Instead, people are apparently suing them because Microsoft banned gun mods. America in a nutshell.
- jaredhallen 2y ago
  FWIW, I eventually got mine migrated, but it took months and a lot of back and forth with customer support.
  - pavel_lishin 2y ago
    I elected to just pay them the extra $15 when I decided to start playing with my kid.
- belval 2y ago
  Also they added their god-awful Microsoft SSO to Minecraft which, coupled with the Xbox app means that you have to be careful with the sequence of action when requesting a password change otherwise the whole thing will just go blank and not let you reset. My partner and I are each on our second copy because at some point it was just not worth the hassle of recovering our old accounts.
- formerly_proven 2y ago
  Oh that’s why my login doesn’t work anymore?
  - chainingsolid 2y ago
    Possibly, they did provide notice and time to migrate your account. But if you didn't read news on the launcher or didn't see a headline (both very possible if you wheren't playing at the time) you would have just 'lost' your account (practically just not legally, they changed the terms post purchase). If you have had the account from before M$ bought Mojang and just now realized you cant log in, it was this.
- Suppafly 2y ago
  >These people will have to buy a second account because Microsoft up and deleted them when they bought Minecraft, and haven't been sued yet. If you were paying attention at the time they offered a migration process for Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts... and then turned it off because 'fuck you that's why'. I'm pretty sure you have literal years to migrate. I suspect you still can if you contact their support.
  - 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
    I sure did contact support and they told me to pound sand. For an organization of Microsoft’s size, to be so incompetent at migrating accounts was a choice. If their underlying system was incapable of linking the product to my account, they could have just emailed brand new codes to everyone registered with the “lifetime” mojang entitlement.
  - turrican 2y ago
    I contacted support in 2021 as well, trying to regain access to my account made in 2010. They told me that they wouldn’t help me.
    - iforgotpassword 2y ago
      Same. They asked for proof that I bought it, I sent the PayPal transaction ID and then they went like "lol we don't actually have any records from back then." I made a hacked version of the old launcher after that and now a couple friends and colleagues and I run a custom server and play on that occasionally.
- OkayPhysicist 2y ago
  If you actually begin the steps of suing them in small claims court (which after the dropping of mandatory arbitration clause, is the official dispute mechanism for Minecraft), suddenly support has no problem giving you your account back. If you bought the game back in the Notch-owned Mojang days, you have a license guaranteeing your right to access all future Minecraft versions. It's a pretty open-and-shut case.

mapt 2y ago

These people will have to buy a second account because Microsoft up and deleted them when they bought Minecraft, and haven't been sued yet. If you were paying attention at the time they offered a migration process for Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts... and then turned it off because 'fuck you that's why'. Instead, people are apparently suing them because Microsoft banned gun mods. America in a nutshell.

jaredhallen 2y ago
FWIW, I eventually got mine migrated, but it took months and a lot of back and forth with customer support.
- pavel_lishin 2y ago
  I elected to just pay them the extra $15 when I decided to start playing with my kid.
belval 2y ago
Also they added their god-awful Microsoft SSO to Minecraft which, coupled with the Xbox app means that you have to be careful with the sequence of action when requesting a password change otherwise the whole thing will just go blank and not let you reset. My partner and I are each on our second copy because at some point it was just not worth the hassle of recovering our old accounts.
formerly_proven 2y ago
Oh that’s why my login doesn’t work anymore?
- chainingsolid 2y ago
  Possibly, they did provide notice and time to migrate your account. But if you didn't read news on the launcher or didn't see a headline (both very possible if you wheren't playing at the time) you would have just 'lost' your account (practically just not legally, they changed the terms post purchase). If you have had the account from before M$ bought Mojang and just now realized you cant log in, it was this.
Suppafly 2y ago
>These people will have to buy a second account because Microsoft up and deleted them when they bought Minecraft, and haven't been sued yet. If you were paying attention at the time they offered a migration process for Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts... and then turned it off because 'fuck you that's why'. I'm pretty sure you have literal years to migrate. I suspect you still can if you contact their support.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
  I sure did contact support and they told me to pound sand. For an organization of Microsoft’s size, to be so incompetent at migrating accounts was a choice. If their underlying system was incapable of linking the product to my account, they could have just emailed brand new codes to everyone registered with the “lifetime” mojang entitlement.
- turrican 2y ago
  I contacted support in 2021 as well, trying to regain access to my account made in 2010. They told me that they wouldn’t help me.
  - iforgotpassword 2y ago
    Same. They asked for proof that I bought it, I sent the PayPal transaction ID and then they went like "lol we don't actually have any records from back then." I made a hacked version of the old launcher after that and now a couple friends and colleagues and I run a custom server and play on that occasionally.
OkayPhysicist 2y ago
If you actually begin the steps of suing them in small claims court (which after the dropping of mandatory arbitration clause, is the official dispute mechanism for Minecraft), suddenly support has no problem giving you your account back. If you bought the game back in the Notch-owned Mojang days, you have a license guaranteeing your right to access all future Minecraft versions. It's a pretty open-and-shut case.