don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, they gave legacy users literal years to migrate

malfist 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I just downloaded a game I bought on steam 12 years ago and played it. I hadn't really thought of the game in the intervening time. If this had been minecraft, I'd have had to pay for the game again because I didn't convert my account.

But no, subnautica was ready to go, though the base building was just as buggy as it was before.

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bspammer 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I really don't care about Microsoft's maintenance costs. I should be able to play the game I paid for 20 years from now without having to jump through hoops in the intervening period. It's not my fault that they decided to make my perfectly normal account a "legacy" account, that was their decision.

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thayne 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It would have been better if they hadn't required you to migrate at all. And a lot of people, including me, ran into issues during the migration process. Thankfully I was able to get it sorted out after contacting support, but other people weren't so lucky.

	▲	0cf8612b2e1e 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just want to chime in as an anecdote who could not migrate. I attempted to migrate within the deadlines, yet the system refused to work. Contacted support and they were no help, in spite of my receipt and presumably, Notch’s log of my purchase. But hey, trillion dollar company tried hard. Nothing more could have been done.

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butlike 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They should have made it a seamless transition for legacy users.

	▲	0cf8612b2e1e 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They could have just emailed new codes to every legacy email on file and that would at least given the possibility of keeping most customers whole.