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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?
So far I needed to:
- Reset my password
- Answer security questions I created as a kid, had no idea to the answers, had to reset them
- Finally, need a code to begin the migration
Each step requires an email confirmation or code, which takes 5-10 minutes to arrive, and for the last step, the session seems to timeout around 10 minutes. This is pretty frustrating as it has taken 30+ minutes to do, I can't imagine kids will have much patience or even understand what the purpose of this is.
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…
"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?
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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.
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…
When I specifically tried to do this, the migration page said "Sorry, this account already has already been migrated".
Reminder that there are two Minecraft licenses - one for bedrock/"Minecraft for Windows"/Windows 10 Edition[0], and one for the "Java edition" of the game[1]; you only needed to migrate Mojang->Microsoft to keep access to your Java Edition purchase via a Microsoft account. The Windows edition has always been a pure Microsoft Store license.
0: https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/minecraft/9nblggh537b...
1: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/store/minecraft-java-edition
"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?
Nothing linguistically wrong with it though.
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…
My kids are unable to use their game because Microsoft is sending password reset to email that no longer exists. 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.
Support replied after a week saying they lost PayPal transaction IDs for that time period and unless I can provide the email address the account is registered as, it's a "no can do".
If you're on Windows, Microsoft is edging (read 'diving headfirst into') towards requiring a Microsoft account just to log in. 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!
Apple is also extremely persistent about asking you for an Apple id. It prompts me for my Apple ID maybe once an hour.
Now I'm sure that this is behavior that could be turned off in some setting, but the fact that it is somehow not difficult to get it into this state is evidence enough.