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> Mojang Account holders automatically got access to Minecraft: Bedrock Edition for Windows upon migrating to a Microsoft Account as a bonus! What could be better?

Not having to have a Microsoft account, maybe?

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It's just another step in the long process of eliminating the Java edition. Nothing you can do will stop them.

People have said they're going to stop support the Java edition since the day Microsoft bought Mojang, but I really doubt it's in their current plans. If they were planning to, they'd just stop updating it, there would be no point in doing this migration in the first place.

Modders would keep it alive, I'm sure. That's already one of the major reasons why people don't want to migrate away from Java edition.

In fact if Minecraft stopped updating Java edition that would make things a lot easier for modders. No more game updates breaking your mods.

You think they'd leave logins for it running when people could be playing Bedrock and paying for Realms?

Realms is on Java too.

Doesn’t matter, it’s all java. You can just remove the authentication.

You can already remove the login from the client extremely easily today, and the server as long as you're willing to self-host.

Thanksgiving comes a day closer every day, my turkey friend.

I mean, they’ll shut it down eventually, because nothing lasts forever. But that’s a different claim than “this is part of the plan to shut it down in the next few years”.

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