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Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by simion314 » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:53 PM UTC

MS screwed up my 2 Skype account migrations. For single player probably a cracked launcher should work but if your kids play multiplayer you might have no choice and maybe create a Minecraft-only MS account and hope MS is not link it behind your back with your other accounts and skype.

F.U. MS, you could let us use the stuff we paid without forcing us into your shit again, some business person really wanted to simplify his spreadsheets or get some bonus because he pushed for new MS accoutns to be created then phase 2 link a credit card and phase 3 add dack patherns so kids buy skins?

Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by Loughla » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:53 PM UTC

surlyadopter wrote: post #14

I have an ancient minecraft account (so old I paypal'ed 9 euro to Mojang) that doesn't have an email associated with it. Does anybody have experience with MS helping recover an older MC account?

I'm in that boat (it's my only OG nerd cred). I did that process. Reach out to their support. They'll have you provide the paypal transaction ID, purchase dates, and a new e-mail. They take it from there.

It really wasn't that hard.

Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by Hasnep » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:54 PM UTC

raxxorrax wrote: post #3

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.

To clarify, the original Java version of Minecraft is essentially the same game with more gameplay features, the Bedrock version is the one with the microtransactions. Plus, the Java launcher lets you use any version going back more than a decade, so if you're not happy with the new features you can just pretend they never happened like some parts of the modded community do with versions after 1.7.10.

Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by Rumudiez » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:55 PM UTC

Not migrating. I put the servers I’m hosting into offline mode so everyone can play with unauthenticated clients. Using MultiMC instead of the original launcher, but still need to find a reliable way to download the latest clients when we want to update. Minecraft without Microsoft

Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by Mikeb85 » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:55 PM UTC

Ugh I recently tried to recover a MS account to use Teams (only begrudgingly), was a nightmare.

As for Minecraft, I got an account ages ago (long before Notch sold) and at this point I'll consider it lost and simply play Minetest whenever I feel like Minecraft...

Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by teraflop » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:55 PM UTC

cdirkx wrote: post #21

surlyadopter wrote: post #14

I have an ancient minecraft account (so old I paypal'ed 9 euro to Mojang) that doesn't have an email associated with it. Does anybody have experience with MS helping recover an older MC account?

I'm in a similar situation. From what I could find the easiest way to resolve the issue is to report the original transaction ID [1], if you still have access to it. They list the instructions for PayPal: > The PayPal transaction ID is a seventeen-character alphanumeric code: 1AB23456C7890123D > To locate this transaction ID, log into your PayPal account and find the ID in your transaction history. If you no longer h…

I tried this process twice in the past two years. Despite providing them with the original PayPal receipt and transaction ID, and still having control of the original email address that the receipt was sent to, and even knowing the original UUID of my user account, I was told that they were unable to verify my identity because:

> we've had some issues with searching for PayPal transaction IDs lately. We may not be able to use the PayPal transaction ID alone.

Sucks to be me, I guess. It would probably make more sense to just pay for a new account than to try arguing with them again, but I'm stubborn enough to stand on principle.

Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by exciteabletom » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:56 PM UTC

Shared404 wrote: post #19

goblin89 wrote: post #4

With the in-game currency and mandatory Microsoft accounts, unfortunately one can see self-hosted Minecraft Java server development halted as well in foreseeable future. I would not be totally surprised if they have been strategically placing bugs (to ruin the experience for those who bought the game but don’t want to be locked in) already.

> unfortunately one can see self-hosted Minecraft Java server development halted as well in foreseeable future. As someone who's an idiot and doesn't know what they're talking about, how hard would it be to make Minetest compatible with Minecraft servers? Edit: I recognize you're talking about 1st party Minecraft server development now, there are 3rd party implementations though, correct? Presumably there would need…

It would take an insane amount of work.

Minetest is not remotely close to feature parity with Minecraft.

Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by Medox » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:58 PM UTC

mjs7231 wrote: post #24

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...

Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by adhoc_slime » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:59 PM UTC

waffletower wrote: post #31

"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?

Re: Mojang to Require a Microsoft Account to Play Minecraft

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Post by nimbius » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 4:59 PM UTC

written by: staff.

this should tell you everything you need to know. if i had to pen an ultimatum to a dedicated fanbase that they either join or i steal their copy of a paid game, I would choose staff as my pen name as well.