Comment on PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion

sam@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• gabe@literature.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never. Microsoft says fuck you. I will say it sounds like a lovely lawsuit waiting to happen, especially in countries with good consumer protections. I wonder how Canadian law would feel about this? 🤔

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I paid like, 10 dollars what’s gotta be 15 years ago now.

    Like if there’s a class action lawsuit over this I wouldn’t turn down the settlement but I’m not losing any sleep over it

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    • Iceblade02@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of note is that if you purchased the game before ~2012, the user agreement had no clause regarding them being able to change it willy-nilly.

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  • xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Microsoft is a trillion dollar company. I doubt any country is going to meaningfully harm them over accounts like this. (I am one of the people that cant migrate because the email I had associated with it is gone and the game was gifted to me so long ago that I wouldn’t be able to easily prove it was mine)

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    • gabe@literature.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’d be surprised, EU fines and consequences to shitty anti-consumer actions like this are built to hurt. There’s a reason why the new iPhone has USB-C, and it’s not out of the kindness of their heart.

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      • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Apple is building proprietary USB-C cables that the iPhone will extremely prefer. So absolutely not for kindnes

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      • Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, but in this case? The users are being migrated to a new authentication account and have been notified for many years that they needed to move over - it’s been like 5 years, right? The servers are staying up. And if you’ve got a Mojang account, any possibility of this still being under even the most generous warranty is long gone.

        If you want to participate in a community where you control the software, you should be getting into open-source games. Minetest is great! It has a better modding system than Java edition! But ultimately, if you’re playing commercial games, you have to deal with a reality that the company owns it and there’s no guarantee what will happen to their servers after the warranty is expired.

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• kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, I paid like 8 bucks for the game (or however much it was in the indev version) but it’s still shitty and arbitrary.

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