Last Call to Voluntarily Migrate Minecraft: Java Edition Accounts

It was a weird feeling, migrating my license to a fresh Microsoft account

And then microsoft instantly locking the account for suspicious behaviour

That's what? a 40 dollar license they tried to scam me out of?

(Of course, "your account has been locked for suspicious behaviour" translates to "we want your mobile phone number", except they allow you to sign up without number, just to lock 10-30 minutes later for a sunken cost effect, if you dare not give it voluntarily, which is plenty of time to migrate within)

I am so sick of gaslighty abusive business practices

My wife, daughter and me all had minecraft accounts. Now we have one microsoft acct with a mix of all the data (lost all the daughter's stuff, which was most important). My wife had been a daily player for 6+ years and hasn't made a new acct since they took hers away last month.

To my uninvolved eye, it looks like Microsoft failed to immolate Minecraft for a while, but they finally couldn't resist any longer. I'm shocked it took them this long.