In 2023, spent multiple hours setting up a Microsoft account for my GF just so she could play Minecraft. The process involved HTTP 4xx, 5xx, missing emails, activation codes that were "expired" even though they were less than 30 seconds old, countless instances of HTTP 302 (or JS / HTML based redirects?) that simply went to a landing page instead of redirecting to the "You've been authenticated" thingy and tons, tons and tons upon tons of captchas. Audio-based ones even, at some point! Some of the voices I could easily understand, others had like a thick accent or something - and English is not my mother tongue. The only thing driving me forward was a boiling hatred towards Microsoft.

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hbn 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's wild cause it was so easy circa ~2010, back before Mojang was purchased.

Microsoft makes a web login seem like some kind of lost knowledge like Roman aqueducts.

	▲	inigyou 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Mojang was username+password later email+password, following industry trends (username is easily seen in-game so you only have to guess a password which for many people is easier than guessing their email). It continued to be so, and then Microsoft forced everyone to switch to a Microsoft account, deleting the account of anyone who didn't do so (in complete violation of Notch's original sales contract with players). If you watch the progress bar of Prism Launcher logging you in to a Microsoft account you see it logs into Microsoft, goes through a bunch of indirection, logs into Xbox (!!), bunch of indirection, then logs into Mojang. And then you get to launch the game. It used to be a simple endpoint with username+password -> auth token. Not any more with Microsoft!

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herbst 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As far as i am concerned they stole my Minecraft account by force migrating it and me cannot being bothered doing all that, all the time again.