Thought I’d share this in case there are people who are unaware or have been pending off the migration process.
Starting September 19, 2023, at 11:00 am EST/17:00 pm CEST, unmigrated Mojang accounts will not be able to sign in to Minecraft.net or the Minecraft Launcher to migrate. We’re doing this to ensure that everyone is playing using accounts with improved security and player safety.
Source: Minecraft.net article
What will happen to unmigrated accounts?
Once the deadline for migration is reached, players will no longer be able to access unmigrated accounts. All unmigrated accounts will be deleted at a future date.
Source: help.minecraft.net
What if you don’t have access to the email address associated with your Mojang account, or have any other queries?
The details are unclear. The Minecraft help center link says “Minecraft player support will no longer be able to help with migration-related issues after September 5, 2023.” whereas the minecraft.net article states “[…] starting September 19, 2023, Minecraft Support will no longer be able to assist in any MSA migration-related tickets.”
What do you get for migrating to a Microsoft account?
Microsoft claims improved account security, and 2FA. You will get a Migrator cape and access to Minecraft for Windows (Bedrock Edition) on the Microsoft account chosen at the time of migration.
I tried to recover my Mojang account and migrate it three times. Each attempt gets a stock response asking for certain info (receipt, email, username). When I provide this, I get a response from a different support user asking for the same thing I just provided. After three to five back and forths (with the same questions and the same answers) I get busy, frustrated, and leave it for a few weeks.
Once I have time, I start over and the exact same thing repeats again.
I wrote it off as a loss last year with an asterisk of “another reason to fucking hate Microsoft”
Yeah, I bought it during beta testing and my account was attached to an old email. Gave up trying to migrate years ago. I’m actually surprised they still haven’t deleted it already.
This is bullshit. What could it possibly matter to them, other than to force people onto their miserable platform. Bastards.
You’re welcome to take on the rewrite of our
auth-servicetoo, since it seems so trivial in your world. Always fun to drag legacy services around for those 12 really loud and angry users.They don’t want to hire people to build and maintain a secure login platform when their parent company already has one. This is way more work and liability than most people realize.
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Does this mean we’ll need to pay for the game again if we don’t do it in time?
That does appear to be the case at this moment.
Sidenote, I have a feeling that’s straight up illegal under contract law. IANAL though.
Edit: Just so ppl have something specific: you bought access to the service. It’s probably gonna be limited in the User Agreement as “if this service has to be shut down, you agree to lose your access and you don’t sue to get your money back”. But this is a backend migration and I’m fairly sure this is not something they had in their original contracts. That’s why sniff a broken contract and when they don’t refund your money, I sniff broken laws.
If it’s not, it should be.
We can write laws and vote then into power, we can fuck up whatever company we want to.
I hate that Minecraft is one of the two things I even need a Microsoft Account for.
They’re gonna delete my game without giving me a refund? Fuck them.
Can’t migrate. Will not accept ULA. I now have to rely on pirated version for a game I paid twice. This does not make sense.
I’ve tried to migrate my account several times in the past. It never works for some reason. Also, I can never seem to untangle the web of deceit known as Microsoft/xbox/Minecraft profiles and family/group settings. About once a year I spend a couple hours trying to sort it out and then give up because it never works. Google can be awful sometimes but at least they figured out “sign in with Google”
And when you DO migrate it to a Microsoft account, and DON’T want them to have your phone number, they’ll fake “There’s been suspicious activity on your account, we HAVE to have your phone number now!” until you give it up.
I know this comes across as one of those classic phishing emails that claim to require your immediate attention or else your account will be deleted, but unfortunately in this case it’s legitimate.
Yeah, no. Microsoft can get bent at 43.625° angle.
Thanks for reminding me. I’ve just migrated.
Not sure when the next time will be that I can play Minecraft, but I guess it’s nice that I can when I want to at any point into the future.
I keep getting those emails even though I’ve migrated my account and can play Java Minecraft through the Microsoft launcher.
Leads me to think my account isn’t migrated but I guess I’ll know for sure in a week or so.
If you are currently able to login and play, then you should be good. I believe they blocked Mojang and Legacy accounts from logging into the launcher a while back.
Doesn’t hurt to check though. Make sure that the upper left corner of the launcher shows your Xbox Gamertag (may be different from your Java Edition username) and says “Microsoft account”.
I thought they’d done this already. They’ve been pestering for a while right?
Thanks for the FYI, haven’t played in years but got it merged to my Xbox account with no issues.
So you’re saying there’s still time, cool I’ll get around to that Later. …
Does Lemmy.world have a remind me bot?? 😂
