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>These people will have to buy a second account because Microsoft up and deleted them when they bought Minecraft, and haven't been sued yet. If you were paying attention at the time they offered a migration process for Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts... and then turned it off because 'fuck you that's why'.

I'm pretty sure you have literal years to migrate. I suspect you still can if you contact their support.

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I sure did contact support and they told me to pound sand.

For an organization of Microsoft’s size, to be so incompetent at migrating accounts was a choice. If their underlying system was incapable of linking the product to my account, they could have just emailed brand new codes to everyone registered with the “lifetime” mojang entitlement.

I contacted support in 2021 as well, trying to regain access to my account made in 2010. They told me that they wouldn’t help me.

Same. They asked for proof that I bought it, I sent the PayPal transaction ID and then they went like "lol we don't actually have any records from back then."

I made a hacked version of the old launcher after that and now a couple friends and colleagues and I run a custom server and play on that occasionally.

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