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Never. Microsoft says fuck you.
I will say it sounds like a lovely lawsuit waiting to happen though, especially in countries with good consumer protections. I wonder how Canadian law would feel about this? π€
I paid like, 10 dollars what's gotta be 15 years ago now.
Like if there's a class action lawsuit over this I wouldn't turn down the settlement but I'm not losing any sleep over it
Some of us paid $39. :(
Edit: I think that's what it cost. It was awhile ago, but it wasn't cheap.
Of note is that if you purchased the game before ~2012, the user agreement had no clause regarding them being able to change it willy-nilly.
Microsoft is a trillion dollar company. Unfortunately I doubt any country is going to meaningfully harm them over accounts like this. (I am one of the people that cant migrate because the email I had associated with it is gone and the game was gifted to me so long ago that I wouldn't be able to easily prove it was mine)
You'd be surprised, EU fines and consequences to shitty anti-consumer actions like this are built to hurt. There's a reason why the new iPhone has USB-C, and it's not out of the kindness of their heart.
Apple is building proprietary USB-C cables that the iPhone will extremely prefer. So absolutely not for kindnes
Yes, but in this case? The users are being migrated to a new authentication account and have been notified for many years that they needed to move over - it's been like 5 years, right? The servers are staying up. And if you've got a Mojang account, any possibility of this still being under even the most generous warranty is long gone.
If you want to participate in a community where you control the software, you should be getting into open-source games. Minetest is great! It has a better modding system than Java edition! But ultimately, if you're playing commercial games, you have to deal with a reality that the company owns it and there's no guarantee what will happen to their servers after the warranty is expired.