I DIDN’T Migrate my Minecraft Account - Here’s What Happened

Got the game as a kid in 2011. Stopped playing for many years, decided to get back into it only to realize my childhood account had been deleted..

If buying isn't ownership, piracy isn't theft. Full Stop

I created my account in 2014. It's lost and I'm honestly heartbroken. Thank you for shedding some light on this. ‹3

Lots of people don't have access to their email anymore. That is most likely the biggest reason why so many people didn't migrate.

Some players reported being unable to migrate due to technical errors. For them, this process was literal robbery.

Dinnerbone was forced to stand right side up. That should've been our first warning.

"hey, just giving you a warning: I'm gonna come take your TV from your home in like 3 years so... Heads up"

This warrants a lawsuit if you ask me.

When a random youtube video announces to you that you lost your minecraft account years ago and you had no idea.

Entirely non justifiable to have such a short cut off period - thanks for trying to escalate this to the highest level. I also lost an account during this, and it's wild because Microsoft must have a record of how many tens of thousands of copies they've cut off and yet still are doubling down on this.

I remember being at work when this was happening. I didn't have any knowledge of this migration happening since the email i used for minecraft was on my old gmail account and i haven't played Minecraft in quite a while. I sent an email to that gmail account from my work email so that i can access the attached item i had on the email from home (company policy is we don't access our work from personal devices). So when i got home and opened that old gmail account, i saw all those remainders about the migration. That was on September 14th, 5 days before migrations would have ended... i got lucky before i lost my minecraft account forever. Even if i don't play it as often anymore, Minecraft is still a home for me.

My thing with the whole migration is it felt like I was loosing something special to me. I had my Mojang account since 2010, all the way back in the alpha stages of the game at 10 years old. That account had been with me for literally the majority of my life, more than I can say for any other online account. I realize it was in reality just 1’s and 0’s, but it felt like a part of who I was, and loosing it was like loosing an old friend in a way. I can only imagine it would be akin to loosing your childhood cartridge of a Pokémon game. Sure you can get a new copy, but it’ll never be YOUR copy.

This is like you buying a stove, the manufacturer telling you that you need to add this new thing to it on a time frame and if you don't they come to your house and take the whole stove from you

Fun fact: Eula has no legal standing ground in some places, meaning you can probably sue and win against Microsoft if you know what you're doing. And I really hope some people do that.

To the whole google thing: There was also Google Stadia, which was Google's cloud gaming service. After it got shut down the users got back all money that they had ever spent on Stadia games AND Hardware. And even then the Controller was still usable with USB and got a firmware update to be able to make a bluetooth connection (although pretty slow).

Lost my account, simply because I didn't click a button in time. There was a lot of history on my account as well. Thanks, Microsoft. Loved the video by the way, subbed.

My wife lost her Minecraft account that was over 10 years old. We recently found out when she decided to get back into the game. I looked into trying to get access to it and found we had just missed the deadline. It's kind of sad that her account is lost forever. And that we had to spend money on another account that was supposed to be a permanent license from Mojang and was purchased as such.

Fun fact for you guys, Microsoft accounts get deleted after 2 years of inactivity! So make sure you log into Minecraft every 2 years or risk that having deleted too!

Steve vs Microsoft USA gonna look crazy on court documents.

What Did We Learn today? "Profit-driven companies do not care about our feelings."