well THIS was a total surprise... I've effectively been locked out of minecraft now. Have had nothing but problems with Microsoft accounts.
This was announced over a year ago. Plenty of time for people to get ready or migrate voluntarily.
Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft
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#62At least Microsoft didn’t buy Wordle. Dont need no account or Wordle Service Pack or a TPM there yet
Edit: s/tpu/tpm/
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#63well THIS was a total surprise... I've effectively been locked out of minecraft now. Have had nothing but problems with Microsoft accounts.
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#64I've owned Minecraft on PC for over 10 years now, but this change really makes me just want to use the cracked version and switch over my Minecraft server to offline mode, just to avoid Microsoft's bullshit. Unfortunately, that would come with too many security risks, as far as my hobby server admin knowledge takes me...
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#65"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.
Coming from Spanish it took me a while to learn/grok "mandatory"/"compulsory" (in Spanish we use the way simpler "hay que"/"tienes que", which would be like just "there is"/"have to"), so I thought that phrase was totally fine! Why would it be better "required" in this situation instead of "mandatory" if you don't mind me asking?
As a native English speaker, I don't see anything objectionable either.
The only thing I can guess at is OP thinking that mandatory means you have to do it, even if you have no interest in playing Minecraft again, but you could read the same into required if you wanted.
Or maybe they think this page is being read by kids, and not their parents, and that kids won't know what mandatory means? But you're supposed to be 13 to have an account, and I'm sure 13 year olds know the word mandatory.
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#66"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.
I don't understand the difference?
"When something is required, it is necessary to complete an action or achieve a goal. When something is mandatory, it is obligatory, usually because some law or rule imposed it."
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#67Through 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…
I had endless trouble with Microsoft phone support telling me they'd successfully cancelled my Xbox Live Gold member ship only to get another bill the next month. Turns out there were two Xbox accounts linked to the same Gmail account, one with a "." and one without.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Well, if your kids are slightly older, you have the opposite problem: everyone older than 12-13 tends to want to play on Java. My oldest is right on the cusp where his friend group is split down the middle. It's super dumb.
Why would they suddenly want to play on Java? Is it the mods?
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Wait - it's not Java anymore? Can people still self-host servers?
I checked out of Minecraft in like 2012.
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#70Created a new account, got locked almost immediately. Requires a telephone number to unlock it. Thanks Microsoft! Thanks Mojang!
Had the same happen.
Haven't tried to fix it yet, too scared they'll lock my primary ms account as well, and then I lose Xbox and office...