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.
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.
beefcat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months 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.
imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Gee whiz, you sure are mad about a person explaining reality to you
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is becoming the norm here unfortunately…
notacuban@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think they’re a very vocal, but disagreed with, minority. I think some people here think all of Lemmy is unwaveringly anti-corporation and anti-capitalist.
I’d consider myself mostly anti-corporation and mostly anti-capitalist, but I also understand that not everything every corporation does is out of some desire to commit the worst thing possible on mankind (e.g. retiring old authentication servers that they’ve kept running for years while warning people that it’d eventually be cut off).
Anyway, Lemmy hates these 5 Cs (in no particular order): -Corporations -CEOs (in particular Elon Musk and Spez) -Conservative politics of any kind -Capitalism -Chromium browsers, even the privacy-oriented spinoffs.
Comment105@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Reality is trash, send the nukes flying please.
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 9 months ago
Soon we’ll all be drinking toilet water, and doingma live dress rehearsal for Mad Max.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This seems to be a common feature of Lemmy
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
The players still have their stuff, just under a new account.
phx@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
beefcat@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
phx@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, I get that Bedrock is for consoles, but as far as far as “performance” that’s mostly a front-end consideration.
I just wish that there was a level of compatibility where one could still self-host and allow the console etc players to join