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The kicker is that they are extremely bad at mixed account scenarios, you know like needing a certain account for work and another account for private stuff. Enjoy the entropy!
"Now just to be clear, migrating from Mojang to Microsoft accounts is 'mandatory'." Whoever made the poor word choice of "mandatory", rather than "required", ought to leave marketing altogether and instead teach in a middle school.
Why would it be better "required" in this situation instead of "mandatory" if you don't mind me asking?
I purchased minecraft back in the alpha days, when the contract said you get it forever including all updates.
Over the years I lost that account.
Well, when Microsoft sent out this email I discovered I had been using the wrong email address - it was forwarded from an ancient email address I stopped using ages ago. I was able to go sign in (using the forgot password process), link it to my current microsoft account and now have my ancient purchase working again on a modern account!
Yah, this is very specific to me, and troubling to require it, but I did get something good out of it.
Through terrible process and QA on their end, MS essentially stole a copy of the game back from me with this change. My son got an email saying he needed to migrate our Mojang account to an MS account and he clicked through like the email said. Problem was the Microsoft account he migrated to already had a Minecraft purchase. Now I essentially lost a copy of the game because we technically have two Minecraft accounts…
At least you've cost MS more money through four experts than them giving you the game back directly. So there's that, I guess. Now I wonder if fixing such edge cases would be more expensive for them than making users go through these "experts" again and again...
Minecraft was a better game under the original developer. Just recently saw that I can buy Minecraft coins at a tank stop. A really sad development of an awesome game which had an insurmountable amount of free content. Don't know what I expected with the acquisition though. I don't think I will migrate my account, currently in the process of migrating away from Windows for good.
That said, I do agree that I likely won't be migrating my account. It's a good excuse to go through another cycle of addiction with the game.
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At least you've cost MS more money through four experts than them giving you the game back directly. So there's that, I guess. Now I wonder if fixing such edge cases would be more expensive for them than making users go through these "experts" again and again...
Yeah it’s a mess, when you’re on Linux you buy Java initially without caring much, then you are in for a surprise and some interesting reads when the kids want to play with friends… I don’t understand why I can’t just have both on the same account, prevent the unpleasant surprises. I mean it’s the same game (from the outside).
It's super dumb.
Through terrible process and QA on their end, MS essentially stole a copy of the game back from me with this change. My son got an email saying he needed to migrate our Mojang account to an MS account and he clicked through like the email said. Problem was the Microsoft account he migrated to already had a Minecraft purchase. Now I essentially lost a copy of the game because we technically have two Minecraft accounts…
At least you've cost MS more money through four experts than them giving you the game back directly. So there's that, I guess. Now I wonder if fixing such edge cases would be more expensive for them than making users go through these "experts" again and again...
Jeez. Microsoft account management is absolutely trash. They try to do clever things, but they don't really think things through. As an example: while trying to get excel installed on a Windows VM, running on a Linux host, I found that if your user agent shows you're running Linux, their admin panel will show you a completely different set of already-purchased applications available to install. Took somewhere between…
Through terrible process and QA on their end, MS essentially stole a copy of the game back from me with this change. My son got an email saying he needed to migrate our Mojang account to an MS account and he clicked through like the email said. Problem was the Microsoft account he migrated to already had a Minecraft purchase. Now I essentially lost a copy of the game because we technically have two Minecraft accounts…
And that's is all that Microsoft support is willing to do to help - send a code to non-existing email address. It does not matter that we have proof of purchase or activation code.