They have stolen mine as well. It was a nice game, but it was not worth getting a Microsoft account for it.
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I'm starting to think that switching to Minetest maybe isn't such a bad idea...
Now you're completely entitled to join the Minecraft piracy world
Other developers have nice software, too!
I'll tell ya more, if you read hardware license agreements then you know that even with hardware you don't "own" anything, you just bought license to temporarily use it, i was shocked back in the day when i read license agreement on my iPad 4 in 2013, there was point about it, that i don't own but only bought temporary rights to use it
Wow? Seriously???
Yes, i don't know if they changed anything, but in high school I've read license agreement of my iPad 4 and was shocked
I see people going "this is what you get for buying digital", and that's what they are not seeing. This is not about digital being more unreliable than physical. This is an attack at the concept of customer ownership itself.
Yea, it is so annoying. As if DRMed disks or DRMless digital downloads don't exist.
Preach brother, always has been, as they trying to push "you won't own anything and be happy" we thought it was a joke, but surprise, these corporations literary want to build their cities, own all the property and have wage/rent slavery and neofeudalism
I had an old Alpha account. I missed the migration window out of a mix of laziness and not really checking my email.
Surely this cannot be legal and all this shit about forced arbitration cannot hold up in a British court?
The "purchase" agreement probably says that they can terminate the license for any reason at any time. If you bought the game years ago I suspect they are actually fine to revoke access. See for example EA and other shit game companies that have taken down games when they take the online DRM servers offline.
Yeah fun fact I actually looked this up a few days ago in the wayback machine because I own a beta account. Back then it was just Notch selling the game and the "agreement" if you can call it that on the site basically just said "you own the game forever, no drm".
I'm not a lawyer or anything but I suspect that unless they somehow tricked users of old mojang account to agree to Microsoft TOS after the purchase of Mojang what Microsoft did may be very legally questionable. But the main issue is who is gonna sue them over 20 bucks. They know they can get away with it
I never even received an email. I haven't touched Minecraft in years, probably never would have again, but my daughter is getting into it and I thought it would be fun to play with her. I found out about the migration when trying to troubleshoot why I couldn't log in.
I tried to contact support and they told me that they had "widely communicated the migration through email and social media" and that because I had missed the migration window, I would simply have to buy a new copy. I double and triple checked. No emails regarding the migration and I'm not on social media.
It shouldn't be, but fighting Microsoft in court would be hellish, and not even a guaranteed win given how much undue influence corporations have over the justice system and politicians.
Just a friendly reminder that mineclone2 exist.
Yes! It's a good alternative. I started playing minetest a couple months ago... :)
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