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

Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Authentication servers do not run themselves, they need babysitting and patching and upgrading because this is users’ passwords and secrets. Microsoft obviously does not want to keep managing this old login system because it’s miserable unrewarding janitorial work for a developer.

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  • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh gosh, they bought a computer game company and they don’t want to pay to support existing customers? They don’t want to maintain accounts that represent HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of hours of creativity, a long-time faithful user fanbase, because they now feel it’s miserable unrewarding janitorial work?

    It’s MINECRAFT! Do you even know what people do on Minecraft? It’s not saving progress we’re talking about here. It’s destroying an ARCHIVE. It’s a life some kid has lived in there.

    You make it sound like it’s perfectly reasonable to ditch this community because it’s an expense and an inconvenience. Get lost with your Microsoft defense. They don’t need you. They don’t give a shit.

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    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gee whiz, you sure are mad about a person explaining reality to you

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      • douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is becoming the norm here unfortunately…

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      • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Reality is trash, send the nukes flying please.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This seems to be a common feature of Lemmy

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    • Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The players still have their stuff, just under a new account.

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    • phx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s getting destroyed? You wouldn’t be able to login to the server but the data would still be there. Transfer the account (or make a new one) and the data’s still there as well.

      I’m more annoyed that Microsoft split off Java Edition and Bedrock into two pieces of incompatible software, but I’m honestly surprised they’ve supported the old auth services for this long.

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      • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t see how you could possibly make Bedrock and Java compatible with each other seeing as the whole point of Java edition is compatibility with mods written in…Java…

        The shitty thing to do would have been to tell mod users to fuck off and force everyone over to Bedrock. Instead they’ve done well by the community, maintaining Java edition and even giving it preferential treatment when it comes to updates. Bedrock is built for consoles, where mods are not a thing and performance is more important.

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  • beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The fun part is most of the people bitching have no clue how to do any of this. Probably the same people who bitch about new games not supporting Windows 7.

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You’re welcome to take on the rewrite of our auth-service too, since it seems so trivial in your world. Always fun to drag legacy services around for those 12 really loud and angry users.

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• beefcat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They don’t want to hire people to build and maintain a secure login platform when their parent company already has one.

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