[HN Gopher] Last call to voluntarily migrate Java accounts
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Last call to voluntarily migrate Java accounts
Author : mccorrinall
Score : 64 points
Date : 2022-02-09 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.minecraft.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.minecraft.net)
| tomrod wrote:
| Darn. It's been a fun 10 years. Farewell Minecraft.
| no_time wrote:
| Just get a cracked copy. No need to get sentimental.
| LoveGracePeace wrote:
| I left Minecraft when they first announced they were breaking
| my contractual agreement as an early purchaser of Minecraft
| from Mojang. It was a fun several years, then Microsoft came
| along.
| guelo wrote:
| Minecraft logins and app types are so confusing. I've bought two
| accounts but lost one of them because I can't figure out which
| app type or login type it was for.
| Macha wrote:
| There's three types:
|
| Minecraft account: pre-2015-ish, you sign in with a username
| and password. I believe these still work until the deadline in
| this post.
|
| Mojang account: 2015-2019, you sign in with an email and
| password. You could migrate a Minecraft account to this. Goes
| away in the deadline in this post.
|
| Microsoft account: 2020+, you sign in with an email and
| password in a microsoft branded web view. You could migrate a
| Mojang account to it, but I think Minecraft accounts are a two
| step migration.
| narush wrote:
| They've been publicizing this migration for at least a few years
| - I think I migrated my migration after a communication in 2020).
| Not sure what the actual implications are for who controls my
| data, but I can say: as a very casual Minecraft user, this change
| was pretty well publicized and rolled out.
|
| P.S. Anyone else who has mostly stopped playing Minecraft but
| continues to watch Let's Plays on YouTube? I play Minecraft
| probably once every 3 months, but watch Minecraft content at
| least once a week...
| Macha wrote:
| MultiMC Linux support for Microsoft logins is... weird, which
| has been my reason for putting off the migration.
|
| The MultiMC dev has since been hired as the official Minecraft
| launcher dev, and I guess that means they don't want to just be
| publishing their Microsoft SDK key for the Minecraft logins.
| But it means they've been on a bit of a war on linux distros
| packagng MultiMC or Linux users using anything other than his
| published binaries.
|
| I've recently switched to GDLauncher, so will have to see how
| their MS account support story is, though it's got more of a
| "modern"/flat/big pictures UI feel to it and is clunkier to use
| vgel wrote:
| re:PS, same -- the game itself takes too much time investment
| to want to play regularly, but the stuff people manage to do in
| it is really impressive. There's a new programming paradigm
| waiting to be discovered inside Minecraft...
| Ntrails wrote:
| I loaded up minecraft for the first time since pre covid a
| couple weeks back. Was surprised to see it telling me my mojang
| account was on life support vOv
| [deleted]
| uncomputation wrote:
| The rollout has been good and well-planned, and definitely a long
| time in the making, but why is it whenever some user change is
| rolled out it is always to "improve user security"? Is it just a
| short hand at this point?
| overshard wrote:
| My only issue with this is that I can go to my password manager
| and I have like 10 different Microsoft accounts over the years,
| some of which seem to be merged, some of which are not, some are
| from Microsoft acquired entities like Skype and all of them
| confuse me.
|
| I seem to be able to use some of them to login to the same merged
| account and others don't work anymore at all.
|
| Microsoft's entire auth ecosystem since Live has been a confusing
| mess for me especially when they acquire someone and start
| bringing them into the fold.
|
| I tend to just avoid it, I'm not deep into the Microsoft
| ecosystem and rather not have the headache at this point.
| inciampati wrote:
| I set up a Microsoft account because it was required to purchase
| Minecraft in late 2021. Somehow I forgot the password or the
| account was locked because I didn't supply a phone number. I
| tried to recover using my recovery email address and Microsoft
| would not grant me access unless I gave a record of who I'd
| corresponded with and some email headings. I literally only have
| a receipt for Minecraft in the inbox. A recovery attempt failed
| after 10 days. I don't see how initiating another would solve the
| problem and I find it mindbending that the won't let me recover
| using my recovery email address. So here I am telling my kid that
| we can't access all the worlds we made over the holidays, and
| contemplating making another purchase because my time isn't worth
| this annoyance. But I'm incredibly annoyed that they will happily
| take my money again for something I just purchased!
| j1elo wrote:
| Anyone knows how to set a Microsoft account so they don't
| require a verification code sent to another email? I want
| _this_ to be the place where _other_ accounts send their
| verification codes. The last thing I need is to go on a spree
| of chained verifications when on a hurry and /or on the go with
| my tiny smartphone.
|
| What's worse with all these verification systems is that what
| happens if you make the human mistake of setting them to the
| other email, so each one sends their verificacion to the other
| one. I just want to use my very secure passwords and maybe a
| OTP key, not depending on third party emails :-(
| eps wrote:
| Microsoft doesn't shy away from outright lying to pry phone
| numbers from people.
|
| I made a couple of Xbox accounts for my kids to use for some PC
| game. Used unique emails on my own domain and hosted on my own
| private mail server. Declined requests to provide any extras.
| Not a week in MS sends an email to both that literally said
| "Your _email_ account was hacked. Your Xbox account is
| suspended. Secure it with a phone number or it will be
| deleted."
|
| The new and improved, people-friendly Microsoft. Just a fresh
| coat of paint over the same old core.
| ShowalkKama wrote:
| Fear not, you didn't lose any of your progress (unless you
| plaid on a realm), all the worlds are saved ~/.minecraft/saves.
|
| If you don't want to buy another account you could use one of
| the many launchers that allow you to play without an account
| (tlauncher, shiginima...) but your mileage may vary. You could
| also use multimc but, since it requires an account to download
| the assets, you'd need to copy around the files in the
| .minecraft folder used by the official launcher which can be
| challenging and annoying to do.
|
| Edit: I have a similar thing going on with Microsoft too, to
| migrate the account I need access to the email which I no
| longer have. I've been opening a ticket every ~3 months for the
| past ~2 years and they still refuse to switch my email address.
| Luckily I can still play the game (not for long) since I still
| have access to the account
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| Microsoft does this all the time where they will lock you out
| of an account and make it near impossible for you to recover
| even when you still have access to the email address and
| password.
| eckesicle wrote:
| Microsoft locked me out of my Skype account by enabling an
| old phone number as two factor out of the blue. I hadn't used
| that number for 10 years.
|
| So disappointing since it was my only point of contact with
| lots of old friends.
| rpdillon wrote:
| This happened to me with LinkedIn (during a job search!) when
| my phone that had 2FA on it stopped booting entirely (Pixel
| 3a). Support had no reason they wouldn't simply contact me
| via the contact methods on my profile to reset 2FA, so I'm in
| limbo right now.
|
| To be fair, they want me to email pictures of my driver's
| license to recover the account, which they pinky-promise
| they'll delete afterwards. I'm not willing to do that, given
| I didn't have to provide any ID to sign up in the first
| place. So now I'm looking into having this form they sent to
| me notorized so I can get access back. What a mess.
| madjam002 wrote:
| That just sounds like 2FA working as intended to me.
| rpdillon wrote:
| Interesting take! Escalating the information being
| demanded to recover the account beyond that used to sign
| up is not something I can really get on board with.
| l0b0 wrote:
| Ntrails wrote:
| Genuine question - can I just get a refund if they're intending
| to force this change? I assume not, but I don't see how it isn't
| breaking the agreement I made with mojang in the first place
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| Several people I know play and mod Minetest
| (https://www.minetest.net/). It seems to be the most complete
| replacement available, as well as enabling extensive modding.
| hughrr wrote:
| We come in peace. Shoot to kill.
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