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Microsoft is terrible. Remember they also require you to use a Microsoft account for Minecraft now. Fuck this company so much
And they're also deleting/deleted all classic Minecraft accounts from before that. They invented an incredibly weird and needlessly obtuse process to extend the migration deadline by 3 months (true final deadline is now mid December 2023), but that's seemingly it. Everyone not paying too much attention to their email just gets $30 worth of game deleted because of a completely arbitrary decision.
Wait really? I bought it when it entered beta. Do I not own it anymore?
You won't soon if you don't migrate your account
Well that's some bs. I haven't played in a while but the principle of it still bothers me. Especially since I'd have never known if not for reading this thread.
Anyone without access to their old email also loses their account. I don't remember which email address I used with my account back in the day (it's at least ten years old), and since I bought my key from a reseller, I don't have a receipt. Microsofts response was basically "not our problem, guess you'll have to pay us again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"
But this is true for literally anything that requires email verification to login with?
I think msft is scummy here but let's not pretend it's unusual that a company isn't going to help you if you can't access your email to verify your ownership.
If I lose access to my Gmail account and am unable to login to Amazon bc of that Amazon ain't going to help me.
In Minecraft's case, you never needed the email address beyond initial registration. Login was always through username and password, which I still have. Had I actually forgotten my credentials, that would've been fair, but I didn't. They just suddenly decided that that wasn't enough and they now want some ancient email address that little me had typed in once over ten years ago.
I just let my mincraft license lapse instead of migrating. Fuck em I'll pirate it from now on.
Have you tried Minetest? It's pretty good, and not Java based so a lot more lightweight.
Wasn't this a pre-microsoft change?
Microsoft purchased GitHub in 2018. This change happened this year.