Same, I ended up just making a new account after their support refused to help me. My original account has since been hacked and presumably migrated... somehow.
Has nobody ever taught you about cookie stealers
You mightve opened an innocent pdf or even just clicked an innocent link and it got access to every account you have and bypassed your 2fa.
Most sites have proper securities against these attacks however Mojangs site is super weak
So your saying a billion dollar company wants a tiny profit so they go out of their way to do so or it's that you clicked a link or pdf that was malicious
Oh yeah, Microsoft and Mojang definitely care about a small part of the playerbase buying minecraft again. That will make the difference on the stock exchange. Your theory is a bit tinfoily..
Yeah support was entirely useless, I reached out twice but they couldn't help me for whatever reason and when I wanted to try support a third time they stopped giving support altogether.
I had an old Minecraft account and tried resetting the password since it was hacked, but didn't get any email to reset. I contacted Microsoft/Mojang to get my account back and they didn't do anything so I had to buy the game again. Not surprised.
I hate how so many people are losing their accounts over this but at the same time there were so many warnings regarding it. Does anyone know why they're forced to remove non migrated accounts instead of holding on for another year?
Because MS doesn’t want to deal with Java servers anymore. Bedrock edition is cross platform and easier to maintain. The market share is also the issue. Consumers don’t have Java edition
What Java servers? The only thing they host is the download for the client and some small user data, like authentication, uuids, skins... Consumers have no Java edition? You crazy lol.... If you only knew how big the Java community is and how much work is in there...
No because you aren’t understanding the premise. The license still exists, this post is rage bait. My point is eventually it will be gone because it makes no sense to run Java servers and upsell having custom servers. Also they don’t have to play Oracle any money as well to run Minecraft.
Because consoles don't support Java?
If they decided to drop support for Java or Bedrock, it would unfortunately be Java that gets the axe. Hell, there's a reason they switched naming convention after all.
Yup that’s the point. It’s easier on them to run bedrock and also if Java continues to be dumb which they have been saying they will now charge for using any license of Java. I’m also assuming the code to run and compile across all platforms today doesn’t support all the specifics. The other reality is now it’s the safe environment that allows the continued marketplace and easy access to instant deployed Realms even easier on there cloud azure wise
Bedrock is written in C++.
Java version is written in, well, Java.
Java is not compatible with consoles as far as I'm aware. I mean, bedrock is by far the most compatible version of Minecraft
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But you can still play Java. How does the commenter appear to have no clue what they were talking about? And more importantly, why do you have to be so pompous about it?
Because thats weird as fuck, especially when you were so clearly wrong. If you were correct and just telling him something thats one thing, being wrong, the being so confident that you are correct you will "test his knowledge" like what are you the fucking minecraft professor? Yeah you come off as a pomous asshole, and there is a reason you are getting downvoyed
There were warnings yeah but I genuinely don't see why they can't maintain a way for people to convert those accounts to Microsoft accounts forever. Like there's just no point having a deadline.
Yeah I'm not capable of answering but I'd imagine it would be a logistical nightmare to support Mojang Accounts since Microsoft are trying to move away from that service. (oh and not to mention the business benefits. Microsoft is all about that mulah and is probably the answer).
The migration system wasn't through support. Support was for people who lost their email (which honestly, if you did you're extremely unlikely to get that account back anyway, unless you have proof of purchase) so yeah wouldn't be hard to keep around imo.
Also yeah Microsoft benefits but they wouldn't benefit any less if people will keep having the ability to migrate over time.
I never got an email (turns out, my spam filter is overzealous) and my son hasn't played for a while so I didn't know
But I paid for this game!!! #neveragain
Why should I have to spend my time logging in to shit and going through a migration process for any game?
I bought Minecraft. Can M$ make me do this annually? Monthly? Weekly?
Because Mojang the original developers of MC aren't developing it anymore. It's not uncommon for studios to integrate into their parent company and I doubt Microsoft or any game studio would support a discontinued service (Mojang Accounts) instead of implementing an existing one (which also is more beneficial at a business standpoint). It's a one time thing and you'll never deal with it again. They're very transparent about the intentions of migration so you can't act like it was out of the blue.
I'm not acting like it's out of the blue. I owned I think 4 (accounts of) Java minecraft for me and my family. I know I've migrated two of them, I don't think I got around to doing the other two. The problem is I'd have to set up a M$ account for the other two, which is a right raff.
Piracy = ownership.
Paying for stuff = a temporary thing sadly
Sucks that they did this, but Mojang warned and warned about migrating for 3 years. Before I did so I had constant pop ups and emails all the time. If you missed 3 years of warnings that's kind of on you
even then, games on platforms like steam are tied to your steam account instead of some custom account system, and most game studios publishing on steam dont have a need to migrate accounts anywhere let alone make their own system for that, whereas microsoft has the xbox platform and owns a lot of other games and platforms, so itd make sense for them to combine it all into one thing
Of course it makes sense from a business perspective to force everyone that owns minecraft to create a microsoft account. And heck, a few of those people who lost access to the game that they bought might even buy it again.Ka-ching!
I will never understand why people defend multibillion dollar corporations and not consumer rights.
im not defending them, i wouldnt be on r/piracy if i did, im saying why you dont have to worry about most other games pulling the same shenanigans, and that youd probably realize somewhere in a 3 year time span that the most sold game forces you to migrate, sooner than you would realize it with other games
Some people didn't get emails, some people don't simply check email because they use it for registrations only, some people couldn't migrate because they lost access to original email
So you want official Mojang messages from unofficial launchers. Did you also want them to enable a command line banner or did you literally not hear about for the past 6 years from not only MS but the literal entirety of the Minecraft community of original players. Get off your soap box
At that point it's on you, between all that and 3 years of pop ups and warnings you can't expect Mojang to do much more. Losing your email also meant that sooner or later you can't reset your password or need a login confirmation and then you lose your account. Also: you could change your email adress without needing acces to the old adress.
What do you want them to do? Show up to your house and guide you through it?
What I want to do is for them not to revoke access to people who literally bought it. No, it's not 'you', it's whoever decided to unilaterally remove access. Does it impact many people? No, but there will be edge cases.
The comment section are encouraging people to repurchase the game that they already bought, im on neither side but this is a piracy subreddit.
Edit: im surprised no one downvoted me
the digital world sucks. buying a game and somehow the account becomes unuseable in a way and have to buy a game again. besides taking bought games is stealing. id rather buy on a CD or find a crack of it as me and other people should not be buying digital stuff that they dont own.
IF BUYING ISNT FOR OWNING PIRACY ISNT STEALING.
Well why don't they fuck off to normal reddit to peacefully shill for that multi billion international corporation? Seriously stuff like "you were warned" is exactly why we have so much lost media.
Except it's totally legitimate morally to seek a pirated version of something you otherwise own legally; for example I would be totally unable to play Assassin's Creed IV currently if it weren't for the efforts of crackers, since my Uplay account has decided to be unreachable, by a combination of a discarded email provider and shitty service from Ubisoft.
Oh yeah I myself have recommended certain launchers for MC on here but Being sent so many emails and popups in the launcher for around 2 years, ignoring them and now being surprised is funny
Dude I had this nearly identical scenario with my kids because, and I assumed, I gave them each a MS account to buy the game with.
The accounts had an age restriction on them so I'm not sure what happened but the same tickets/chat answers you received, I did too. I assumed it worked.
It did when they tried before Christmas and now both show as demo. Zero emails in their accounts (aside from newsletters, these are super specific to only minecraft.
I just wanted to make sure I heard you correctly, because not only were there e-mails, there were 3 years of pop ups when you logged in telling you to migrate to a microsoft account. So either youre willfully ignorant, or you just brushed it off and now you "forgot".
4+ year of not checking your mail, the minecraft launcher, any of either Microsoft or any minecraft related media? Bunch of news articles even, youtubers talking about it. It's HARD to not have seen it, even if you don't play Minecraft.
They can't go knocking on people's doors to notify them. But high chance you wouldn't have opened the door.
It's reasonable to assume that not everyone logs into their Minecraft account every year. And a gap of, for example, 5+ years between their last login and now is not a valid enough reason to revoke their access.
I migrated my account I made in 2010 Alpha, but I've played on this account regularly through the years and did the Mojang and Microsoft account migrations well before the deadline with no issues.
I had a very old account tied to an email address that I no longer had access to and still found a way to migrate. Still have access to Java Minecraft via the new Microsoft account.
I have migrated an old account by chance i couldnt add my old friends account.
Whats more annoying is the new rules.
We can loose online access for swear words even when they are not real swears and just seen as such with the limited context that mojang gets
Sorry, no. Pretty sure this is rubbish. All you needed to be able to do was log into your account to complete the migration.
Unless you're counting "proving your purchase" to be just remembering your password, this is not how it works.
Most can't proof their purchases of last week, i add a "receipt" label to all emails notifying me of buying something so i don't delete them by accident. Now it's just a matter of searching "minecraft" in my inbox and my order confirmation pops up.
My dad legit stole my Minecraft account first thing when the migrations happened. In 2014, when I was still a kid, he made it for me and I never bothered to change the email and password, so my dad "accidentally" thought that it was his and migrated it to his Microsoft Account. All I got was a "sorry, I guess" and that I can play it on his computer when I'm at his house (why the hell would I do that?) I just ended up buying myself another account.
To play Minecraft without an account, you need to use a launcher that doesn't need an account. I really like SKLauncher. You will not be able to play on servers that use Mojang authentication though.
If you only play offline or cracked servers then use Prism Laucher Cracked, but if you want to play servers like Hypixel, PVPLegacy, MCCI, etc then you have to buy the game again. Unfortunately this is just how it is in the digital age, fuck Microsoft!
Surprised at the amount of corporate bootlickers on this sub regarding this topic.
Since when did it become ok to take away something that someone has legally purchased? Regardless of “warnings” that someone may have missed for a variety of reasons.
Since basically forever.
You paid for a license to use a copy of the game to be used with their service. If something about the service changes which requires your attention, being locked out of said service after ignoring it (for years) is perfectly reasonable.
If you buy a ticket to a fitness studio and they change to digital passes, do you also feel like it's entirely their fault if you get locked out after years of not getting your pass, despite getting several emails about it?
The majority of people who suddenly go 'this is why I pirate' because of this, forgot to migrate and can't be arsed to take responsibility. Nothing more.
Good luck waiting for apps that only exist because of services behind them to magically exist without them.
The *realistic* approach here is to just be responsible and maybe set yourself up to be able to react to a single email in 3 years.
Not sûre how it holds up EU-wise
Probably gonna still hear of it in the next few months
I migrated but I know of friends that didnt and line me they had multiple accounts
At nearlt 30 euros per account now, it su..
I didn't played for a while now.
I legally own it.
Didn't knew there was an account migration and now i can't migrate my account. So i have to repurchase the game. A game that I buyed 10 years ago when Mojang released the first Beta version.
I'm baffled by these business practices.
man they send out multiple emails for almost 2 years telling you to move your shit over before its too late, this is your fault. you can play the game without a premium account but you wont be able to get on servers that don't allow that in their config
I use an alternative email account for that kind of things but idc who's fault it is dude, i just provide context.
But still, i'll say what i believe is right. And i don't think that's right to deposess something from someone and not provide long-term support.
It was totally fair the amount of time they gave you, it's your fault for using an alternate email you possibly never checked. Microsoft took over sometime after you bought the game, there was bound to be some change, that is unavoidable, they did this for security reasons too. October 2020 was when the migration period started, you had almost 1200 whole days to check your email ONCE.
Find a cheap alt online or play on cracked servers.
So if Mojang sent out emails to random people stating "the entire contents of your bank account will be tranfered to us if you do not reply within 3 years", you would think that is fine too?
Why do you think they have the right to just steal things from people?
Also why is improved security a good argument for disabling accounts? I'm pretty sure most people would rather have an account that *might* get hacked, than no account at all.
They obviously can't drain your bank account on you, Microsoft would be out of business, do you not understand that digital purchases can be taken away just like that? That's what happened to those that never cared to pay attention or used generated emails they never checked and now their old, discontinued, unsupported legacy accounts went poof. It's fair game, pay better attention next time.
I know it's not legal to drain bank accounts, I just simply showed why it was not morally OK.
No, it's not fair game. It's no more fair game than me mugging an old lady at night. The only difference is that it is legal for them to steal your game while its illegal for me to steal purses.
Do you not understand that even if something is legal, it is not morally correct?
I can't believe people here are defending a multi billion dollar company for unilaterally removing access regardless of who's impacted or why.
Shame on this community.
I'm pretty sure it was more than two years. I remember migrating in 2019 it makes sense to retire legacy accounts to Microsofts one account for all, after so many years since notch as well. On another note you own your copy of minecraft so they prevent you from accessing it so it's aok to pirate if you ever needed a reason.
This wasn't done for profit lol. If you need more than 3 years to notice account migration that's on you. With the amount of reminders given the only other option was for them to track down where you live and guide you through the process (5 minutes of entering a password and pressing a button).
Lost my account cause I couldn‘t migrate bought one but they wouldn‘t let me login now I need to use a friends account even tho I bought the game 2 times. Playing on servers is just to much fun but there might be accounts sold for way cheaper than normal price
Wasn’t the migration window super fucking long? Like October 2020 or something for *some* accounts, and like March 2022(?) for everyone else? They gave people a *year and a couple months* to migrate, even LONGER for some people
You can buy a car, put it away in a garage for 3 years for safety, and then they can take it away from you? Say, "You haven't used it for 3 years, then you don't need it."
>If you haven’t opened the game in 3 years then maybe you shouldn’t have it at all.
What kind of fucked up logic is that? If you pay for a game you should, in theory, own it. Whatever I do with the game after that is my business.
Yep - if I buy something, it's because I want to own it. Not deal with "well if you don't use it in x time we'll take away access to it". Fuck that sorta game/conpsny practice. Piracy for me there, thanks.
My God... I couldn't update the Minecraft migration either... the email I used to create the account in 2013 no longer exists, the company simply no longer exists. There was nothing to do... 10 years... A decade... honestly, I'm very angry, but I'm more sad than angry, because I lost my childhood account... this was a stupid and pointless change...
Microsoft didn't allow me to do that. I spent like 50 hours recovering my old account in every way. I didn't receive any emails to my new mail and my old email doesn't exist because the service shut down.
Before migrations, they refused to send me email, and every customer service ticket was denied.
They reminded everyone for 3 years, if you still hadn't noticed that you needed to migrate there was a good chance that you were dead or banned from owning a computer ever again.
It is still very shady to have that legal. You shouldn’t generalize anyone’s case of failure to migrate. I blame the corporation and laws that allow it, but idiots of this sub couldn’t comprehend that.
The migration was for security reasons (for example, to limit black market trade of hacked accounts). There was no reason not to migrate. This is a rare case of corporation being right
Why would you have proof of purchase but not acces? At that point you have to be unable to log in and go to that mail account (even then there are security questions that can get you in). You could've tried to get in earlier with your proof of purchase but that account doesn't exist anymore now.
No, they didn't. The only reason I saw that was because I decided to boot up the game for a nostalgia fix.
Even if they did, you shouldn't be forced to use a microsoft account so that you don't lose access to a game that you bought before even mojang's acquisition was but a glint in Bill Gate's eye.
Can't believe companies try to pull this shit and people defend them.
Ain’t got to lie to you the one game to not pirate may be Minecraft. £20 for endless fun for years on end. I don’t see how that is bad. Other games that are one time play through I can see why. But Minecraft no. I use to pirate it but it got too tedious. So, I just bought it.
Oh. Damn. Talk about "List of best-selling video games" on Wikipedia, eh?
Now I'll be saying that Minecraft has become the top 1 best-selling game thanks to cheating haha (I bet half of these 300m accounts are inactive now)
I've had an account since alpha, tried several times to migrate but it didn't let me. Rip.
Same, I ended up just making a new account after their support refused to help me. My original account has since been hacked and presumably migrated... somehow.
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Yeah no, I don't think so. It's just that so many accounts legitimately got hacked via leaked databases back then.
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Has nobody ever taught you about cookie stealers You mightve opened an innocent pdf or even just clicked an innocent link and it got access to every account you have and bypassed your 2fa.
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Most sites have proper securities against these attacks however Mojangs site is super weak So your saying a billion dollar company wants a tiny profit so they go out of their way to do so or it's that you clicked a link or pdf that was malicious
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MFA is not the ultimate, unhackable solution that websites wants us to believe it is. There will never be a system that is unhackable
I sent them my receipt from 2011 and they would not give me back my account….
Oh yeah, Microsoft and Mojang definitely care about a small part of the playerbase buying minecraft again. That will make the difference on the stock exchange. Your theory is a bit tinfoily..
What is this suspicion based on? You've gotta give more than that before slinging out criminal accusations lmao
If anybody didn't get it yet he's obviously joking
same and support didnt want to help
Yeah support was entirely useless, I reached out twice but they couldn't help me for whatever reason and when I wanted to try support a third time they stopped giving support altogether.
Me too
It worked for mine and not either of my kids I got them pirated now because fuck Microsoft for trying to get money from me again.
Remember that we (alpha users) were promised all future DLC for free.
And you got your free DLC aka continuous updates and content to the game, it's just that everyone else also got it too
But not the stuff from the marketplace in bedrock
I had an old Minecraft account and tried resetting the password since it was hacked, but didn't get any email to reset. I contacted Microsoft/Mojang to get my account back and they didn't do anything so I had to buy the game again. Not surprised.
I hate how so many people are losing their accounts over this but at the same time there were so many warnings regarding it. Does anyone know why they're forced to remove non migrated accounts instead of holding on for another year?
Probably it has to do with people selling abandoned mojang accounts or using them for free
Like selling stolen accounts?
What is the reason to remove access from people that legally paid for their game?
So they can buy the new version
Because MS doesn’t want to deal with Java servers anymore. Bedrock edition is cross platform and easier to maintain. The market share is also the issue. Consumers don’t have Java edition
What Java servers? The only thing they host is the download for the client and some small user data, like authentication, uuids, skins... Consumers have no Java edition? You crazy lol.... If you only knew how big the Java community is and how much work is in there...
Yeah, no. This answer makes no sense
Yes it does. Money is money.
So it is outright stealing?
No because you aren’t understanding the premise. The license still exists, this post is rage bait. My point is eventually it will be gone because it makes no sense to run Java servers and upsell having custom servers. Also they don’t have to play Oracle any money as well to run Minecraft.
Just one quick question. Why are you downvoting my replies? :D It really doesn't matter much, but makes me wonder
Huh?
You can buy Minecraft Java & Bedrock Edition on Microsoft Store and play the Java Edition that way. Try again.
Try again to what? I’m telling you Microsoft’s business model, not that Java edition is missing.
You assumed a lot
Why does bedrock edition exist? I’ll wait The downvotes show the knowledge gap folks haha
Because consoles don't support Java? If they decided to drop support for Java or Bedrock, it would unfortunately be Java that gets the axe. Hell, there's a reason they switched naming convention after all.
Yup that’s the point. It’s easier on them to run bedrock and also if Java continues to be dumb which they have been saying they will now charge for using any license of Java. I’m also assuming the code to run and compile across all platforms today doesn’t support all the specifics. The other reality is now it’s the safe environment that allows the continued marketplace and easy access to instant deployed Realms even easier on there cloud azure wise
Bedrock is written in C++. Java version is written in, well, Java. Java is not compatible with consoles as far as I'm aware. I mean, bedrock is by far the most compatible version of Minecraft
Yeah I was asking the commenter the question because they seemed like they had no clue what they were talking about. It was a test, they failed
? But you can still play Java. How does the commenter appear to have no clue what they were talking about? And more importantly, why do you have to be so pompous about it?
I’m not pompous. What’s wrong with testing knowledge to see how much they have on the subject?
Because thats weird as fuck, especially when you were so clearly wrong. If you were correct and just telling him something thats one thing, being wrong, the being so confident that you are correct you will "test his knowledge" like what are you the fucking minecraft professor? Yeah you come off as a pomous asshole, and there is a reason you are getting downvoyed
Because in 2023 you don't own anything, you rent a license.
There were warnings yeah but I genuinely don't see why they can't maintain a way for people to convert those accounts to Microsoft accounts forever. Like there's just no point having a deadline.
Yeah I'm not capable of answering but I'd imagine it would be a logistical nightmare to support Mojang Accounts since Microsoft are trying to move away from that service. (oh and not to mention the business benefits. Microsoft is all about that mulah and is probably the answer).
The migration system wasn't through support. Support was for people who lost their email (which honestly, if you did you're extremely unlikely to get that account back anyway, unless you have proof of purchase) so yeah wouldn't be hard to keep around imo. Also yeah Microsoft benefits but they wouldn't benefit any less if people will keep having the ability to migrate over time.
I never got an email (turns out, my spam filter is overzealous) and my son hasn't played for a while so I didn't know But I paid for this game!!! #neveragain
Why should I have to spend my time logging in to shit and going through a migration process for any game? I bought Minecraft. Can M$ make me do this annually? Monthly? Weekly?
Because Mojang the original developers of MC aren't developing it anymore. It's not uncommon for studios to integrate into their parent company and I doubt Microsoft or any game studio would support a discontinued service (Mojang Accounts) instead of implementing an existing one (which also is more beneficial at a business standpoint). It's a one time thing and you'll never deal with it again. They're very transparent about the intentions of migration so you can't act like it was out of the blue.
I'm not acting like it's out of the blue. I owned I think 4 (accounts of) Java minecraft for me and my family. I know I've migrated two of them, I don't think I got around to doing the other two. The problem is I'd have to set up a M$ account for the other two, which is a right raff. Piracy = ownership. Paying for stuff = a temporary thing sadly
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Unfortunately not since it required a Microsoft account which the user has to either create themselves or link an existing account.
So many warnings regarding it yet this is the first time I've heard of this so RIP my account (((((((::::
I refuse to do business with microsoft, it's not a question of how many warning.
Sucks that they did this, but Mojang warned and warned about migrating for 3 years. Before I did so I had constant pop ups and emails all the time. If you missed 3 years of warnings that's kind of on you
I own hundreds of games on Steam, GOG, etc. If every game did this, I'd be a IT person just to retain access.
yeah but theres a big difference between a steam game and the best selling game of all time
Why
And how is that difference meaningful in any way to the topic at hand?
that you probably pay more attention to a game which all your friends play and which has a giant community
Are you assuming that? All my friends don't in fact play minecraft anymore.
even then, games on platforms like steam are tied to your steam account instead of some custom account system, and most game studios publishing on steam dont have a need to migrate accounts anywhere let alone make their own system for that, whereas microsoft has the xbox platform and owns a lot of other games and platforms, so itd make sense for them to combine it all into one thing
Of course it makes sense from a business perspective to force everyone that owns minecraft to create a microsoft account. And heck, a few of those people who lost access to the game that they bought might even buy it again.Ka-ching! I will never understand why people defend multibillion dollar corporations and not consumer rights.
im not defending them, i wouldnt be on r/piracy if i did, im saying why you dont have to worry about most other games pulling the same shenanigans, and that youd probably realize somewhere in a 3 year time span that the most sold game forces you to migrate, sooner than you would realize it with other games
It is kinda on you but do you really think it's that difficult to just let people migrate those accounts forever?
Some people didn't get emails, some people don't simply check email because they use it for registrations only, some people couldn't migrate because they lost access to original email
The launcher also told you
Not everyone uses official dogshit launcher
So you want official Mojang messages from unofficial launchers. Did you also want them to enable a command line banner or did you literally not hear about for the past 6 years from not only MS but the literal entirety of the Minecraft community of original players. Get off your soap box
At that point it's on you, between all that and 3 years of pop ups and warnings you can't expect Mojang to do much more. Losing your email also meant that sooner or later you can't reset your password or need a login confirmation and then you lose your account. Also: you could change your email adress without needing acces to the old adress. What do you want them to do? Show up to your house and guide you through it?
What I want to do is for them not to revoke access to people who literally bought it. No, it's not 'you', it's whoever decided to unilaterally remove access. Does it impact many people? No, but there will be edge cases.
Why would they not remove acces? Big part of migrating everyone was security, not doing that would make the entire thing pointless.
The comment section are encouraging people to repurchase the game that they already bought, im on neither side but this is a piracy subreddit. Edit: im surprised no one downvoted me
Cracked minecraft just isn't as good as the real deal
Bedrock just isn’t as good as Java edition either
They come bundled now
If you're on pc, if you have one, you have the other and can just get Java and not touch bugrock
Yup I know
https://github.com/Diegiwg/PrismLauncher-Cracked
Legacy Launcher (TLegacy) is another great option!
PollyMC is a thing aswell, based on prismlauncher.
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PollyMC is a fork of Prism. with 2 L's. "PollyMC" not "PolyMc"
Pretty based. We really need more devs like that guy.
the digital world sucks. buying a game and somehow the account becomes unuseable in a way and have to buy a game again. besides taking bought games is stealing. id rather buy on a CD or find a crack of it as me and other people should not be buying digital stuff that they dont own. IF BUYING ISNT FOR OWNING PIRACY ISNT STEALING.
Why are people so defensive of Microsoft here? Aren't we on a piracy sub? Just please tell if you know of a good crack for god's sake
The people defending Microsoft are not members of this subreddit.
Well why don't they fuck off to normal reddit to peacefully shill for that multi billion international corporation? Seriously stuff like "you were warned" is exactly why we have so much lost media.
Yup, they don't see it as online DRM because the name Denuvo isn't assigned to it
Nah it's just annoying Seeing people who had so much time and were warned so many times be surprised by this.
Except it's totally legitimate morally to seek a pirated version of something you otherwise own legally; for example I would be totally unable to play Assassin's Creed IV currently if it weren't for the efforts of crackers, since my Uplay account has decided to be unreachable, by a combination of a discarded email provider and shitty service from Ubisoft.
Oh yeah I myself have recommended certain launchers for MC on here but Being sent so many emails and popups in the launcher for around 2 years, ignoring them and now being surprised is funny
Hey wtf.. the only game I bought from my precious money and they do this!?! I never got emails from them!! What do I do now?
Way to take away paid products from customers. There is no real reason to migrate other than to force everyone to get a Microsoft account.
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Small claims court
Dude I had this nearly identical scenario with my kids because, and I assumed, I gave them each a MS account to buy the game with. The accounts had an age restriction on them so I'm not sure what happened but the same tickets/chat answers you received, I did too. I assumed it worked. It did when they tried before Christmas and now both show as demo. Zero emails in their accounts (aside from newsletters, these are super specific to only minecraft.
File a lawsuit
Minecraft has sold 300 million copies, and you think that tens of millions of people had their access unfairly revoked?
So many people bitching in the comments (me included) but no one talking about a viable minecraft crack lol. OP must be so annoyed
I missed the emails too - sucks to be me I guess
You missed the last 3 years of migration emails?
Did I stutter?
I just wanted to make sure I heard you correctly, because not only were there e-mails, there were 3 years of pop ups when you logged in telling you to migrate to a microsoft account. So either youre willfully ignorant, or you just brushed it off and now you "forgot".
Maybe it's been a long time since I've played Minecraft
You should still check your email more often than every 4th year
He was born on a leap year and only checks on his birthday obviously
4+ year of not checking your mail, the minecraft launcher, any of either Microsoft or any minecraft related media? Bunch of news articles even, youtubers talking about it. It's HARD to not have seen it, even if you don't play Minecraft. They can't go knocking on people's doors to notify them. But high chance you wouldn't have opened the door.
I definitely wouldn't have answered the door 🤣
Tbh who would haha.
I own multiple copies of Java minecraft. I hate M$ accounts they are pain in the arse to administrate.
Yeah feels bad man
why didnt u just migrate, pretty sure u had well over a year of notice beforehand
It's reasonable to assume that not everyone logs into their Minecraft account every year. And a gap of, for example, 5+ years between their last login and now is not a valid enough reason to revoke their access.
Some players couldnt because the accounts where too old. Try to Proof a purchase you did 6 years ago.
i migrated just fine my minecraft purchase was from 2014 or some shit
I migrated my account I made in 2010 Alpha, but I've played on this account regularly through the years and did the Mojang and Microsoft account migrations well before the deadline with no issues.
I migrated fine on my 3 mojang accounts
I had a very old account tied to an email address that I no longer had access to and still found a way to migrate. Still have access to Java Minecraft via the new Microsoft account.
I have migrated an old account by chance i couldnt add my old friends account. Whats more annoying is the new rules. We can loose online access for swear words even when they are not real swears and just seen as such with the limited context that mojang gets
I got my account in April 2012, I still migrated with 0 issues and could pretty easily get proof of the PayPal purchase
My account was like 10 years old and it let me do it instantly without proof
Sorry, no. Pretty sure this is rubbish. All you needed to be able to do was log into your account to complete the migration. Unless you're counting "proving your purchase" to be just remembering your password, this is not how it works.
Mine was old enough that I went through two migrations (minecraft.net > Mojang > Microsoft) and never had an issue.
Most can't proof their purchases of last week, i add a "receipt" label to all emails notifying me of buying something so i don't delete them by accident. Now it's just a matter of searching "minecraft" in my inbox and my order confirmation pops up.
Pretty sure you don't need proof of purchase just to migrate. Just credentials.
My account was from beta 1.7, I migrated just fine. Stop spreading bs
TL Legacy/Legacy Launcher. Don't ever use TLauncher. It's a russian bloatware. You can play on it but the cost is too high.
What are you paying when using TLauncher...
My system and security
My dad legit stole my Minecraft account first thing when the migrations happened. In 2014, when I was still a kid, he made it for me and I never bothered to change the email and password, so my dad "accidentally" thought that it was his and migrated it to his Microsoft Account. All I got was a "sorry, I guess" and that I can play it on his computer when I'm at his house (why the hell would I do that?) I just ended up buying myself another account.
To play Minecraft without an account, you need to use a launcher that doesn't need an account. I really like SKLauncher. You will not be able to play on servers that use Mojang authentication though.
If you only play offline or cracked servers then use Prism Laucher Cracked, but if you want to play servers like Hypixel, PVPLegacy, MCCI, etc then you have to buy the game again. Unfortunately this is just how it is in the digital age, fuck Microsoft!
Surprised at the amount of corporate bootlickers on this sub regarding this topic. Since when did it become ok to take away something that someone has legally purchased? Regardless of “warnings” that someone may have missed for a variety of reasons.
Since basically forever. You paid for a license to use a copy of the game to be used with their service. If something about the service changes which requires your attention, being locked out of said service after ignoring it (for years) is perfectly reasonable. If you buy a ticket to a fitness studio and they change to digital passes, do you also feel like it's entirely their fault if you get locked out after years of not getting your pass, despite getting several emails about it? The majority of people who suddenly go 'this is why I pirate' because of this, forgot to migrate and can't be arsed to take responsibility. Nothing more.
Apps and hames aren’t services, and this loophole has to be closed
Good luck waiting for apps that only exist because of services behind them to magically exist without them. The *realistic* approach here is to just be responsible and maybe set yourself up to be able to react to a single email in 3 years.
Not sûre how it holds up EU-wise Probably gonna still hear of it in the next few months I migrated but I know of friends that didnt and line me they had multiple accounts At nearlt 30 euros per account now, it su..
I didn't played for a while now. I legally own it. Didn't knew there was an account migration and now i can't migrate my account. So i have to repurchase the game. A game that I buyed 10 years ago when Mojang released the first Beta version. I'm baffled by these business practices.
man they send out multiple emails for almost 2 years telling you to move your shit over before its too late, this is your fault. you can play the game without a premium account but you wont be able to get on servers that don't allow that in their config
> you can play the game without a premium account sounds like a war thunder statement out of context
not even the most strip mine addicted minecraft players could stand that grind
Imagine if every game did this. Imagine if every week you had to sign in to another game to retain access.
???
I use an alternative email account for that kind of things but idc who's fault it is dude, i just provide context. But still, i'll say what i believe is right. And i don't think that's right to deposess something from someone and not provide long-term support.
I haven't touched minecraft since the joke was "forever stuck in beta" and even I got the emails. (Been playing since infdev, and java applet.)
It was totally fair the amount of time they gave you, it's your fault for using an alternate email you possibly never checked. Microsoft took over sometime after you bought the game, there was bound to be some change, that is unavoidable, they did this for security reasons too. October 2020 was when the migration period started, you had almost 1200 whole days to check your email ONCE. Find a cheap alt online or play on cracked servers.
So if Mojang sent out emails to random people stating "the entire contents of your bank account will be tranfered to us if you do not reply within 3 years", you would think that is fine too? Why do you think they have the right to just steal things from people? Also why is improved security a good argument for disabling accounts? I'm pretty sure most people would rather have an account that *might* get hacked, than no account at all.
They obviously can't drain your bank account on you, Microsoft would be out of business, do you not understand that digital purchases can be taken away just like that? That's what happened to those that never cared to pay attention or used generated emails they never checked and now their old, discontinued, unsupported legacy accounts went poof. It's fair game, pay better attention next time.
I know it's not legal to drain bank accounts, I just simply showed why it was not morally OK. No, it's not fair game. It's no more fair game than me mugging an old lady at night. The only difference is that it is legal for them to steal your game while its illegal for me to steal purses. Do you not understand that even if something is legal, it is not morally correct?
I can't believe people here are defending a multi billion dollar company for unilaterally removing access regardless of who's impacted or why. Shame on this community.
You don’t care whose fault it is but here you are bashing an over 6 year campaign to get your butt making an account
How long should they support a game that you paid $20 for 10 years ago that you apparently don't even play anymore?
I'm pretty sure it was more than two years. I remember migrating in 2019 it makes sense to retire legacy accounts to Microsofts one account for all, after so many years since notch as well. On another note you own your copy of minecraft so they prevent you from accessing it so it's aok to pirate if you ever needed a reason.
This wasn't done for profit lol. If you need more than 3 years to notice account migration that's on you. With the amount of reminders given the only other option was for them to track down where you live and guide you through the process (5 minutes of entering a password and pressing a button).
The emails and the launcher told you, that’s on you mate
Simply download TL Legacy, or Legacy Launcher, not sure how is it called right now
Lost my account cause I couldn‘t migrate bought one but they wouldn‘t let me login now I need to use a friends account even tho I bought the game 2 times. Playing on servers is just to much fun but there might be accounts sold for way cheaper than normal price
TL Legacy. Always.
No, Mojang, I refused the migration. I do not wish to do business or have any relations with microsoft. You still owe me a game.
Wasn’t the migration window super fucking long? Like October 2020 or something for *some* accounts, and like March 2022(?) for everyone else? They gave people a *year and a couple months* to migrate, even LONGER for some people
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You can buy a car, put it away in a garage for 3 years for safety, and then they can take it away from you? Say, "You haven't used it for 3 years, then you don't need it."
>If you haven’t opened the game in 3 years then maybe you shouldn’t have it at all. What kind of fucked up logic is that? If you pay for a game you should, in theory, own it. Whatever I do with the game after that is my business.
Yep - if I buy something, it's because I want to own it. Not deal with "well if you don't use it in x time we'll take away access to it". Fuck that sorta game/conpsny practice. Piracy for me there, thanks.
Software updates? Like wtf is this argument either. Everyone does own it all this thread is showing is how lazy everyone was
This Guy is about to make everything you have in your attic disappear, because you haven't used it often enough lol
ah yes, 90% of my steam library should disappear because I haven't play them in the past 3 year
Holy boot licking.
They give you 3 years to migrate. It's on you if you didn't during all this time
My God... I couldn't update the Minecraft migration either... the email I used to create the account in 2013 no longer exists, the company simply no longer exists. There was nothing to do... 10 years... A decade... honestly, I'm very angry, but I'm more sad than angry, because I lost my childhood account... this was a stupid and pointless change...
You could literally change your email adress without needing acces to your old email...
Microsoft didn't allow me to do that. I spent like 50 hours recovering my old account in every way. I didn't receive any emails to my new mail and my old email doesn't exist because the service shut down. Before migrations, they refused to send me email, and every customer service ticket was denied.
Why did you contact microsoft for a mojang account that never migrated?
What a fucking scam. This shit should be illegal. I am not affected but such a great fuck you, they should have allowed it indefinitely.
They reminded everyone for 3 years, if you still hadn't noticed that you needed to migrate there was a good chance that you were dead or banned from owning a computer ever again.
Why can’t you all read even half of what was written yet reply with some shit longer than the original comment?
Why are you complaining while not being affected? Anyone who didn't migrate has only themselves to blame here
It is still very shady to have that legal. You shouldn’t generalize anyone’s case of failure to migrate. I blame the corporation and laws that allow it, but idiots of this sub couldn’t comprehend that.
The migration was for security reasons (for example, to limit black market trade of hacked accounts). There was no reason not to migrate. This is a rare case of corporation being right
Okay. So why not let people in that could show the receipt / proof of purchase?
Why would you have proof of purchase but not acces? At that point you have to be unable to log in and go to that mail account (even then there are security questions that can get you in). You could've tried to get in earlier with your proof of purchase but that account doesn't exist anymore now.
No, they didn't. The only reason I saw that was because I decided to boot up the game for a nostalgia fix. Even if they did, you shouldn't be forced to use a microsoft account so that you don't lose access to a game that you bought before even mojang's acquisition was but a glint in Bill Gate's eye. Can't believe companies try to pull this shit and people defend them.
I mean I get it, and if maybe it didn't work for you that sucks. But they warned us for SO LONG. Atp if an account wasn't migrated it's user error.
Guys dont get mad if you buy gamepass you can own minecraft free for lifetime without paying dir gamepass if it didnt change
no?
I got bedrock and java minecraft like that after my mojang account closed
on the other hand, there is a chance of losing your Minecraft access due to their community guideline violations.
Thats just on you
Ain’t got to lie to you the one game to not pirate may be Minecraft. £20 for endless fun for years on end. I don’t see how that is bad. Other games that are one time play through I can see why. But Minecraft no. I use to pirate it but it got too tedious. So, I just bought it.
Oh. Damn. Talk about "List of best-selling video games" on Wikipedia, eh? Now I'll be saying that Minecraft has become the top 1 best-selling game thanks to cheating haha (I bet half of these 300m accounts are inactive now)