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Minecraft No More?
Jun. 5th, 2022 06:35 amFinally happened. Microsoft decided to force me to migrate.
And the migration failed spectacularly.
The key problem is that I registered originally with my lycos email account. Lycos deleted all free email accounts back on June 1st, 2018.
I also never upgraded to an Mojang account. I still had a Minecraft account. They were prepared for people being like that, however it all comes to naught because the very first thing they do, and they generally should in most cases, is try to verify who you are by sending an email to the account you have associated with the account.
Oops. Can't do that now can I. I sent a support ticket although it asked for a hell of a lot of information that I honestly don't have memory of or access to. Like, do you remember the month and year you signed up for minecraft? Are you sure? Do you still have that transactional ID? What if you were gifted a fucking code and wouldn't have that information?
So yeah. I really don't expect anything to be done other than "I'm afraid you'll have to rebuy the game you bought."
To which the odds are very likely I'll not be doing. I can't even run the latest version of java minecraft on my computer because of their new "security features". And when I was able to plya 1.16 after they upgraded the launcher for that, I found it did a lot of fucked up shit with the save files I had.
In short, if I started the launcher with a modded jar, it would only let me see new worlds. IE: NONE. Except the new one I started, aptly called "I hate Mojang". But if I started the launcher with an unmodded jar, it would show me all my old worlds. Worlds I couldn't play very well because I fucking well need to use optifine to make Minecraft run on this comp.
Yeah, whatever. I'll rethink about what I want to do with Minecraft when I get a new computer, which might not be until the fall at the earliest. Regarding the rest of Microsoft, I'm just putting the entire thing on a boycott. I may still use Windows as the OS, although it'll be the free version you typically get with a new computer. For pretty much everything else from hardware to software though, I'll probably choose an alternative whenever possible.
That's how much I ain't enjoying them fucking this shit up. Kinda expected this day to come ever since Notch sold out, but whatever. Next time I post about Minecraft will either be when I finally rebuy it with the new computer (There are a variety of conditions associated with that so it's far from a definite thing) or when I see a news report saying Mojang is being discontinued with Microsoft absorbing Minecraft into it's internal studios. "To better serve the players" of course. Like this whole forced account migration. If anything actually happens with the support ticket I'll probably just update this post.
(Update)
Support updated my email tagged to my minecraft account for me. I guess my predicting the proper account and supplying proof about lycos discontinuing their free accounts etc was sufficient. It's possible they also tried emailing those accounts as a test, and when their emails bounced they'd know the accounts were indeed no longer valid.
Even with that it took me about 40 minutes to actually migrate my account. I'll blame myself in that since I surf with noscript on, and that does cause problems when a website is set up in such a way to hide scripts until they're actually used. So I'd allow all the scripts noscript was stopping, then try to continue - only to have it fail. Then when looking at the scripts again I'd see another 3-4 fucking scripts in the list.
Apparently I already have a microsoft account. All xbox live accounts were turned into microsoft accounts I guess (or were from the start). The hell if I could find my password for that so had to reset it. Which took a couple tries because of the above mentioned noscript BS.
And it took another 10 minutes to figure out how to sign in to the launcher again after that. Kept using the mojang button by accident.
So I get to keep using Minecraft for now.
And the migration failed spectacularly.
The key problem is that I registered originally with my lycos email account. Lycos deleted all free email accounts back on June 1st, 2018.
I also never upgraded to an Mojang account. I still had a Minecraft account. They were prepared for people being like that, however it all comes to naught because the very first thing they do, and they generally should in most cases, is try to verify who you are by sending an email to the account you have associated with the account.
Oops. Can't do that now can I. I sent a support ticket although it asked for a hell of a lot of information that I honestly don't have memory of or access to. Like, do you remember the month and year you signed up for minecraft? Are you sure? Do you still have that transactional ID? What if you were gifted a fucking code and wouldn't have that information?
So yeah. I really don't expect anything to be done other than "I'm afraid you'll have to rebuy the game you bought."
To which the odds are very likely I'll not be doing. I can't even run the latest version of java minecraft on my computer because of their new "security features". And when I was able to plya 1.16 after they upgraded the launcher for that, I found it did a lot of fucked up shit with the save files I had.
In short, if I started the launcher with a modded jar, it would only let me see new worlds. IE: NONE. Except the new one I started, aptly called "I hate Mojang". But if I started the launcher with an unmodded jar, it would show me all my old worlds. Worlds I couldn't play very well because I fucking well need to use optifine to make Minecraft run on this comp.
Yeah, whatever. I'll rethink about what I want to do with Minecraft when I get a new computer, which might not be until the fall at the earliest. Regarding the rest of Microsoft, I'm just putting the entire thing on a boycott. I may still use Windows as the OS, although it'll be the free version you typically get with a new computer. For pretty much everything else from hardware to software though, I'll probably choose an alternative whenever possible.
That's how much I ain't enjoying them fucking this shit up. Kinda expected this day to come ever since Notch sold out, but whatever. Next time I post about Minecraft will either be when I finally rebuy it with the new computer (There are a variety of conditions associated with that so it's far from a definite thing) or when I see a news report saying Mojang is being discontinued with Microsoft absorbing Minecraft into it's internal studios. "To better serve the players" of course. Like this whole forced account migration. If anything actually happens with the support ticket I'll probably just update this post.
(Update)
Support updated my email tagged to my minecraft account for me. I guess my predicting the proper account and supplying proof about lycos discontinuing their free accounts etc was sufficient. It's possible they also tried emailing those accounts as a test, and when their emails bounced they'd know the accounts were indeed no longer valid.
Even with that it took me about 40 minutes to actually migrate my account. I'll blame myself in that since I surf with noscript on, and that does cause problems when a website is set up in such a way to hide scripts until they're actually used. So I'd allow all the scripts noscript was stopping, then try to continue - only to have it fail. Then when looking at the scripts again I'd see another 3-4 fucking scripts in the list.
Apparently I already have a microsoft account. All xbox live accounts were turned into microsoft accounts I guess (or were from the start). The hell if I could find my password for that so had to reset it. Which took a couple tries because of the above mentioned noscript BS.
And it took another 10 minutes to figure out how to sign in to the launcher again after that. Kept using the mojang button by accident.
So I get to keep using Minecraft for now.
