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| ▲ | amlib 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Except for the hundred thousands if not millions of people who lost their Minecraft account due to the way Microsoft handled multiple successive account migrations, also including the many accounts that were stolen due to lax security. And since digital ownership legislation is a joke consumers have pretty much no recourse. | | |
| ▲ | 0cf8612b2e1e 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Beat me to it. I am still incredibly salty about losing my “lifetime” license to Minecraft. I really am curious to see some of the changes that have happened since I last played (when still owned by Notch), but I refuse to repurchase it. | | |
| ▲ | galleywest200 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > I am still incredibly salty about losing my “lifetime” license to Minecraft. I kept my Minecraft license after migrating to a Microsoft account. Unsure how it got messed up for you. | | |
| ▲ | 0cf8612b2e1e 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I don’t know what to say. I went to the migration site, entered my information-no dice. Contacted support and got no assistance. There are others with a similar experience. Microsoft could have gone above and beyond to manage the forced migration. Instead there was a convoluted process which left many cheated. They could have just punted and automatically emailed brand new entitlement codes to all of the original purchase emails. Yes, people who switched emails would have been missed, but that would have covered 95%+ of customers in a single action. | |
| ▲ | NekkoDroid 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Unsure how it got messed up for you. If you didn't transfer it from your Mojang account to your Microsoft account in time (before the account was shut down) you just straight up lost access to it. | | |
| ▲ | thibaut_barrere 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | And sometimes, like in Sharepoint, the process could not be completed. | |
| ▲ | topgrain2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Microsoft accounts being an absolute pain in the ass to set up and manage, and the new launcher being aggressively terrible, are salt in the wound even if you finally gave in and migrated your account. Also, good luck running Microsoft’s Minecraft launcher on a kid’s computer with allowlist-only internet access. It connects to like 20 apparently-random IP addresses every time it launches, will not work if any of them fails, and the pool of addresses is evidently huge. I never did find anything like a list of IP blocks to allow. Maybe they keep a file with them all in it somewhere, never looked, but I have a feeling they hit one address that gives them their list of the others for each session, and only that list, like if I had to bet on it I’d go with that (if they had a larger list, why aren’t they re-trying with different addresses when one fails?). I guess they just don’t care about that use case. (“Why don’t parents just police their kids’ internet access?” yeah look some of us really try but shit like this is everywhere and makes it stupidly difficult) | |
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| ▲ | giancarlostoro 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Or when they decided to wipe people's Hotmail accounts. Now some random person has my original hotmail that I had since the 90s through to the 2010s... Presumably, this person now indirectly has a ton of my original accounts for different services I can no longer access... thanks Microsoft. | | |
| ▲ | Telaneo an hour ago | parent [-] | | I'm so happy I managed to transfer everything important over to my own domain before anything like that happened. I still have my old Hotmail and Gmail, and while nothing important shows up there, there's still a trickle of non-spam email coming in there, even after 5 and 10 years since I transferred everything I could remember at the time. |
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| ▲ | arjie 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Haha, I was one of these people. I'm unreasonably salty about this (given the monetary loss is not high and I got a lot of playtime out of the game back then), especially because I also had one of those Alpha keys unused as well! | |
| ▲ | ThrowawayTestr an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | You had years to move your Minecraft account |
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| ▲ | reaperducer 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Whatever you think about Microsoft, they are a good steward of their platforms and go to extremes to maintain backwards compatibility This is the same company that closed its e-book store, and everyone lost the libraries they'd worked so hard to curate. |
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