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When I saw Minecraft for the Nintendo Switch I bought it, thinking it'd be a solution for the MS login madness and my kid could play easily with it.

Wrong!

It's even worse! You still have to log in with some MS account, but on top it's buggy, slow, laggy, and crashed a few times on me generating the world. What a disaster.

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Same story here. Thought it would be great for kids to play. Takes 30 minutes of me screwing with it every time they want to play it. I gave up and put linux on an old laptop and them bought another copy of minecraft for it.

You still have to use the official launcher that requires online connection to play the game you own (twice), right?

You can still use unofficial launchers, but I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft removes that too

You can't use any unofficial launcher that lets you play the game unless it talks to Microsoft servers about it.

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