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It's not only MFA, the whole authentication system is broken. And then small details like your skype password is now your microsoft password, so if you forget/change skype password on a separate linux machine or whatever ...

My kids learnt some new words when I had to setup microsoft accounts and family account or whatever it's called so I could buy minecraft bedrock edition for them to play with their friends (in addition to the java versions I already paid for).

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Microsoft makes little children cry. In the endless stream of fuckups with their account management they managed to delete all of the Minecraft worlds my son had built. This was two years ago. He was 8 at the time. His passion for Minecraft has significantly waned after that.

Microsoft is the same shitty, incompetent, abusive, predatory company that I remember from the nineties and will likely never change.

Was this realms? I thought Minecraft worlds were stored locally.

Yes, but it got wrapped around an axle where he could neither log in nor in any way move his worlds to a different device. Their advice was to uninstall Minecraft and in the process lose all local data. No migration path was offered. And it all started when they started demanding that he logs in with a Microsoft account.

Microsoft authentication is the worst I’ve ever seen. I too have had to deal with this via Minecraft and it is so bad and confusing that I almost forbid my kid from playing Minecraft.

The confusion of having a Mojang account and Microsoft account is not the dumbest thing I’be encountered but it is one of the dumbest in my history.

The biggest stupidity was that I gave his real age, which made it impossible for him to connect to multiplayer servers until I selected an option but it was impossible to find.

The so-called security is way over-the-top and doesn’t increase security, it just makes it impossible to use. It’s the worst form of “security” I’ve ever seen in a supposedly high tech company

Similar here. The process made me want to donate to the Minetest team because every last one of our worlds is still available and lan parties are still fun. Same with Super TuxCart, so easy to get going.

Literally same experience. So sorry, it sucks.

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